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Blog post by Graham Whitham, Chief Executive Officer at Resolve Poverty:
Mustard Tree charity will pay homage to volunteers, donors, clients and partners as part of creative showcase on Friday 7 June, 2pm – 5pm, outside Ancoats hub, with music, fashion and art performances from charity’s creative clubs.
Sainsbury’s Nourish the Nation programme, in partnership with Comic Relief, aims to tackle food poverty by helping people access the balanced, nutritional, and sustainable food they need, right now and in the future. The aim of the Fund is to provide school children (up to Year 11) with improved access to summer holiday activity and food schemes.
Nourish the Nation is offering 22 awards of £10,000 in the Greater Manchester area.
The Brick Multibank receives surplus goods that would have otherwise been recycled or disposed of from both local and national companies. The items are stored at the warehouse and then distributed to people who need them through local charities, community groups, schools and professionals. These essential items range from bedding and cleaning products to clothes and toiletries.
The Brick are looking to expand their coverage more comprehensively into Greater Manchester by collaborating with charities and community groups across Greater Manchester.
Have you been involved in, or are you aware of UK-based work between 2008 and 2024 that enabled those affected by the economic injustice of poverty to articulate the issues that they face and what they feel are the most important things to invest in?
GMCVO and Greater Manchester Poverty Action have been funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to conduct an evidence review that collates and themes issues that are repeatedly deemed to be important to address.
By Anna Tate
The cost of living crisis is now well underway and has now impacting all communities across Greater Manchester. Unfortunately, the longer a crisis exists the more normalized it becomes. However, the recent headlines that some families have been forced to access loans to pay for baby formula and baby milk for their very young children is and continues to be shocking.
The Cost of Living Resilience Fund supports social sector organisations in areas of deprivation providing services to support people struggling with the rising cost of living. The fund aims to 
increase sustainability in these organisations by supporting them to deliver projects which build organisational stability and resilience to deliver.
As we come into colder winter months – it is important that we all do what we can to give our residents the information they need to stay warm and well. This includes messages about how to access cost of living support and find free warm welcome spaces near you.
This toolkit from Manchester City Council gives you the social media messages and assets to share across your own channels to support people in your own networks.
Affordable Food Clubs can include social supermarkets, pantries, larders, mobile community shops and other community-led initiatives which provide access to nutritious food for a fraction of what 
these items would cost in a regular supermarket.
In the latest newsletter, GM Poverty Action to share that their Money Matters programme has surpassed £200,000 in gains for local families. Debt Justice share new messaging guide, ‘How to talk 
about debt’, and reflections on Living Wage Week and its recurring themes.
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