The Open Doors Project is a pilot scheme established by the Office for Social Responsibility in collaboration with Manchester Museum and Alliance Manchester Business School. The scheme allows community members to book meeting rooms totally free-of-charge on the Oxford Road campus. These room bookings are open to voluntary and charity organisations, CICs and social enterprises, community groups, and residents’ associations.
Join the Manchester Social Entrepreneurs and Yellow Beacon CIC as we hold space for neurodivergent entrepreneurs to share their experiences, success stories and the challenges faced when running their business ventures.
This is intended to be the first in a series of events to open the conversation, understand and discuss the specific support needs of neurodivergent entrepreneurs, and identify ways we can work together to create more inclusive environments that cater to our unique strengths and challenges.
Join us for 'Unlocking commissioning to unleash Manchester’s Social Economy' a half-day event focused on strengthening collaboration between universities, commissioners, and the social economy in Manchester.
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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.