The waitlist is now open for The Brilliant Club, a learning programme designed for social enterprises and freelance practitioners. Join to learn and apply the principles of Healing-Centred Design and nurture and elevate work and wellbeing. The Spring cohort can now join through the 'Together' or 'Solo' invite, offering a flexible approach to fit around your time and needs.
The fund is providing grants for businesses and organisations working in Greater Manchester’s foundational economy – including the health and social care, early education and childcare, and the local high street (retail, hospitality, culture, leisure and tourism) sectors - to trial new ideas and become more resilient. Initial grants of up to £11,000 are available.
The Foundational Economy
The foundational economy supplies the essential goods and services we all rely on for our daily needs.
Want to help your community and get paid? Start your journey here!
What you'll learn:
“Networking is not about just connecting people
We are pleased to say that the St Thomas Centre in Ardwick will continue to serve as a vital hub for voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in Greater Manchester. Following the closure of GMCVO, we can now announce that agreement has been reached for Macc to take over responsibility for the Centre, safeguarding this important resource for our sector.
The Royal Literary Fund has worked with Communities First for several years, offering free workshops in writing skills, led by our professional writers. We also work with Recovery Colleges, the NHS, unions and the voluntary sector.
Social Enterprise Day this year is on 21st November 2024. Hosted by SEUK, this is a day to showcase and celebrate social enterprises across the UK.
GMCVO want to bring together local social enterprises, trading charities and community businesses and their supporters for our own day of networking, awareness raising and sharing of insight and knowledge.
GMCVO are hosting a GM Social Enterprise Summit, Funded by GMCA, attendees at this event can:
Social Enterprise Day this year is on 21st November 2024. Hosted by SEUK, this is a day to showcase and celebrate social enterprises across the UK.
We have refreshed our website and we’d love to know what you think, so please send us your thoughts and comments to [email protected]
We still have the same content but we’re hoping our website is easier to navigate: