Vaccination Volunteering Stories: Christine Ashton
This week’s vaccination volunteering story comes from Christine Ashton:
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This week’s vaccination volunteering story comes from Christine Ashton:
Why did you sign up?
In March 2020, the lights were dimmed on Manchester’s Arts and Culture sector, with theatres, libraries, museums and arts centres being amongst the first to close their doors to the public at the start of the pandemic.
The Youth Covid-19 Support Fund is provided by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and administered by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The fund will focus on enabling the struggling, but most impactful, youth organisations in England to continue operating, where they may have scaled back service provision or temporarily closed due to reductions in their income as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Seed funding grants are available for UK based charities and other not-for-profit groups and organisations to trial new and innovative ways to support people in the UK who are suffering with poor mental health. The grants can be used to trial a new service, create an asset, a technology, a performance, fund research, or otherwise experiment in any way that supports mental health.
Are you passionate about people? Do you believe in justice? Can you see things from another perspective? You could be a POPS trustee.
POPS (Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Group) has over 30 years experience as a recognised and reputable provider of support services to offenders’ families, offenders and their children. POPS were established by prisoners’ families at a time when support for families and friends was non-existent.
Have you experienced challenges as a tenant in the private rental sector?
Do you have ideas to improve tenant-landlord relations, or to protect tenants' rights?
Want to make a change?
Led by theatre facilitator Katy Rubin, these drop-in workshops will lead to an opportunity to participate in a community theatre project to support and strengthen tenants' rights.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester has launched a Crime Support Line to support victims of crime who may have concerns about how their crime has been recorded by Greater Manchester Police (GMP), or would like support to help them cope and recover.
The phone number for Greater Manchester’s Crime Support Line is 0808 196 8416.
The last date for applying to EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) is Wednesday 30 June 2021 – apply now.
On 31 December 2020, the UK left the European Union (EU), and EU nationals in England, Scotland and Wales MUST apply for the EU Settlement Scheme by Wednesday 30 June 2021 if they wish to continue residing in the UK without losing rights.
The public will be able to convert vacant plots of land and derelict buildings into new homes or community spaces, under plans announced by the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick MP.
The ‘Right to Regenerate’ proposals would make it easier to challenge councils and other public organisations to release land for redevelopment – helping communities make better use of public land and give a new lease of life to unloved buildings.
One billion people worldwide still do not have access to safe drinking water.
Equal Aqua Uganda is a Manchester-based, youth-led, award-winning charity. The Uganda team set the vision and determine the needs of local communities, identifying where we may truly make a difference. The UK provide the support to make this a reality.