Poverty

Complaining can be complicated. If you work in the voluntary and civil society sector, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman want to equip you with the skills to help people navigate the process.

Join a free 90-minute online workshop which will explain:

In Season 9 of the Meet the Mancunian Podcast, host Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe collaborates with the Spirit of Manchester Awards to feature interviews with award winners and nominees from the city's voluntary and community sector. 

Resolve Poverty have launched new research on the prevalence of local authority anti-poverty strategies across England. It finds that councils in the north of England and in areas with high levels of poverty are more like to have an anti-poverty strategy in place.

Last week, Manchester's Digital Strategy unveiled their three CommuniCity challenges, inviting Manchester’s tech community to develop solutions that tackle some of the problems faced by underserved communities in in our city.

Successful pilot teams will each receive a grant of up to €12,500 to help engage local communities and bring their solutions to life.

If you have a great idea that could:

Resolve Poverty are pleased to launch the North West Poverty Monitor, a new resource which reveals the scale and nature of poverty across Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.

The Poverty Monitor is a free, easy-to-navigate tool which provides data across six themes: poverty and deprivation, education, fuel and food insecurity, housing and homelessness, the labour market, and social security and debt.

We have refreshed our website and we’d love to know what you think, so please send us your thoughts and comments to info@mcrcommunitycentral.org

We still have the same content but we’re hoping our website is easier to navigate:

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