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Mike Wild
A few weeks back I met with a group of voluntary & community sector leaders working with children young people and families and our local Director of Children's Services. We were talking about how to build the relationship between the sectors so we hit on the idea of writing a blog to challenge a few myths and misconceptions which tend to distort the relationship.
What follows was written…
People/communities experiencing racial inequalities, Capacity Building, Children and Families, Commissioning , Community Engagement, Crime and Disorder, Environment, Equalities, Faith, Funding, Health and Wellbeing, Homelessness, Learning, Skills and Employment, LGBTQIA+, Mental Health, Older People, Physical Disability, Policy and Influence, Social enterprise, Transgender, Volunteering, Young People, Other
Mike Wild
I wasn't sure whether it would be approriate or useful to add more words to everything which is being written about this sad situation but there's a lesson here which I think is being missed.
A legitimate question you might ask among all the media noise about the closure of Kids Company is “Where are the Trustees?” They’re the ones ultimately responsible for the charity, after all. They’re in a…
michelle.foster
Our groups and volunteers data has been updated to include data for the first quarter of 2015/16.
Mike Wild, Chief Executive at Macc, has released a video talking about why we decided to release open data and the data we’ve made available for everyone.
Challenge from Mike - What data do you share and how are you sharing it?
We’re keen to encourage as many groups as possible to share their data…
Mike Wild
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
I've not really said anything much in this blog about Greater Manchester Devolution yet. That's largely because almost as soon as you write anything down about Devolution, it's out of date: suddenly there’s another new announcement about new “powers” being given to Greater Manchester. There’s not been anything substantial…
Mike Wild
A short (5 min) video blog on why Macc decided to develop a policy on Open Data and how we chose what data to share.
You can find Macc's Open Data releases (updated quarterly) here:
https://www.manchestercommunitycentral.org/policy-and-influence/open-data
michelle.foster
We’ve just updated our Groups and Volunteers data on our website for January to March 2015, which you can view here
I recently went to a workshop called ‘Discovering Neighbourhood Statistics’ delivered by the Unity out of Diversity Project at the University of Manchester which gave an overview on searching for statistics on the Office for National Statistics website: https://neighbourhood.…
Mike Wild
As the General Election draws nearer, I've been mulling over what's happened to the voluntary and community sector during the last five years. Below is a piece originally written back in summer 2011. This was, for me, the moment where I pulled together a lot of ideas and impressions and started to move towards the work which eventually became our Civil Economy for Manchester work with CLES. I'm…
Nigel Rose
This blog explores the Living Longer, Living Better programme in Manchester and the role of Macc and the voluntary sector.
Living Longer Living Better, known as LLLB, is the major joint programme in Manchester between Health Services and Manchester City Council and is overseen by the Health and Wellbeing Board. In a context where Manchester has some of the highest rates of people with long-term…
Mike Wild
Tonight is the “manVcam” rally in on Albert Square in Manchester. Some local voluntary and community groups have been wondering about whether it’s appropriate to go along, so here's my take on it.
The rally’s aim is to challenge the Government’s reduction of the amount of money which is given to Manchester City Council to provide public services. It’s been heavily trailed in the press with a list…
Arts & culture, People/communities experiencing racial inequalities, Capacity Building, Children and Families, Commissioning , Community Engagement, Crime and Disorder, Environment, Equalities, Faith, Funding, Health and Wellbeing, Homelessness, Learning, Skills and Employment, LGBTQIA+, Mental Health, Older People, Physical Disability, Policy and Influence, Transgender, Volunteering, Young People, Other
michelle.foster
We have updated our open data sets on the groups we have on our database which shows which ward they are based, their equalities focus and their annual turnover.
Our volunteering data has also been updated and we are pleased to be releasing even more data about the volunteers we have been in contact with. As well as showing the ward where our volunteers live, their gender and the numbers of…
Mike Wild
As I write this, the team are just about to head over to the Mechanics Institute for today's Emergency Voluntary Sector Assembly event to discuss the impact of Council budget proposals on the work of the voluntary and community groups in Manchester.
Unsurprisingly there has been huge interest in this meeting so I'm confident that we'll see a good cross-section of the local sector: large and small…
Arts & culture, People/communities experiencing racial inequalities, Capacity Building, Children and Families, Commissioning , Community Engagement, Community First, Crime and Disorder, Environment, Equalities, Faith, Festival event, Funding, Health and Wellbeing, Homelessness, Learning, Skills and Employment, LGBTQIA+, Mental Health, Older People, Physical Disability, Policy and Influence, Transgender, VCM, Volunteering, Young People, Other
Manchester City Council are planning massive cuts to services which help maintain positive mental health and resilience and cutting all services that support people recovering from severe and enduring mental health conditions. At the same time the NHS in Manchester is planning to discharge (step down to primary care) up to 800 people from community mental health services. (This is something that…