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
In the latest GM Poverty Action newsletter they have a report on Salford City Council’s updated anti-poverty strategy and they share information about the launch of the guide for local authority implementation of the Socio-Economic Duty in England.
Writing about the services available, Manchester Credit Union presents their payroll benefit and Trafford Housing Trust their employment and skills opportunities.
“The top of my priority list at the moment is how we can sustain and improve specialist Domestic Abuse prevention and support services over the longer term. There are so many parts to this puzzle that it, at times, feels a bit overwhelming. Take for example, the growing concern across the violence against women and girls sector that our specialist services will be sidelined in the face of cost saving, poorer quality initiatives. Initiatives that we believe will fail to meet the complex and unique needs of survivors escaping life threatening abuse.
In the latest GM Poverty Action newsletter they report on the Food Security Pilot project tool that enables those who refer people to foodbanks to identify income maximisation advice.
There is an update on the Greater Manchester Real Living Wage City Region campaign and the date for the next meeting.