Places for Everyone is a long-term plan of nine Greater Manchester districts (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan) for jobs, new homes, and sustainable growth.
In the latest newsletter GM Poverty Action report on the National Keep the Lifeline campaign to stop the cut to social security in October and provide information about what you can do to support the campaign. In contrast, there is good news from both the GM Living Wage Campaign and the Tameside Poverty Truth Commission.
A report by the Centre for Social and Health Research at the University of Salford has revealed new insights into the role of Greater Manchester’s voluntary, community and social enterprise sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CSJ Awards is an annual award that honours the best grassroots, poverty-fighting charities and social enterprises across the UK. Next year four winners will receive a £10,000 grant and be recognised nationally.
Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA) are currently running their Annual Impact Survey.
GMPA run their annual survey to find out more about how the people in their network perceive their work, what they value and the different ways in which GMPA has an impact. The findings will help inform GMPA’s work and support them when making a case to funders and other stakeholders.
In the latest GM Poverty Action newsletter there is a report on the publication of a new guide for local and combined authorities about the voluntary adoption and implementation of socio-economic duty. There is an update on the Tameside Poverty Truth Commission and brief overviews of two reports about in-work poverty and left behind neighbourhoods.
Poverty Truth Commissions seek to discover the answer to the question,
“What if people who struggled against poverty were involved in making decisions about tackling poverty?”
The Greater Manchester Strategy (GMS) is the overarching strategic document for the whole of the city-region, providing a shared vision, direction and series of actions to be delivered. The GMS is owned and adopted by the public, private and VCSE sectors.
On July 14th Macc is holding a voluntary sector assembly about social prescribing, where we will be helping the VCSE sector to write a manifesto about what we collectively want from social prescribing. This article is my personal take on some of the issues.
The Greater Manchester Social Value Network (GMSVN) Steering group have worked with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to create a short survey about the GMCA framework. The GMSVN would really appreciate your views by answering three questions about the GMCA framework and how Greater Manchester organisations are contributing to it.
The survey will close on the 19 July 2021