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As the restrictions of the COVID-19 lockdown are eased, this guide aims to support you, day care managers, social workers, commissioners and providers, to restart or continue activities. It is focused on community-based day services, day centres (with and without personal care), including specialised day centre environments, and those with outdoor spaces.
Come and tell Northmoor Community Association what support you need; this could include: Housing, Universal Credit, Benefits, Jobs, Online Learning.
The Circus House CIC offer community circus training, and are based in Longsight / Levenshulme. Since Lockdown, they have had to diversify their offering to continue to engage with the community.
The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel (GMDPP) created a survey to find out how disabled people in Greater Manchester were managing during the Covid 19 pandemic. The Panel is unique, no other city region has managed to establish one, it is made up of 14 disabled people’s organisations. The Panel already knew a lot of the issues, but to help them to influence improvement of how services were responding they needed a wide evidence base the survey could provide. 936 people responded, making it one of the largest surveys by and for disabled people of the Pandemic.
GM GOLD (Growing Older with Learning Disabilities) was an inclusive research project carried out by a team of older people with learning disabilities.
Ambition for Ageing wanted to find out what older people with learning disabilities think about their local area, whether they feel part of their local community and what support or barriers exist to meaningful social contacts, interactions and activities.
The public response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a source of much-needed hope. Thousands of spontaneous, voluntary Mutual Aid groups have emerged to support the most vulnerable people in our society. They are supplying food and medicine, connecting with those who are lonely, and organising community resources.
The latest newsletter looks at the disproportionate impact of poverty on BAME communities and share comments from VCSE leaders in Greater Manchester on this and the recent Social Metrics Commission report. There is also an article by Marcus Johns of IPPR North, writing about ten years of the austerity crisis. There is also a reminder about the Annual Impact survey for you to complete.
Every day ‘ordinary’ people make an extraordinary difference through volunteering with groups across the UK. Chances are that most people know at least one group whose work and volunteers immediately spring to mind as being exceptional. However, most people will not have thought of nominating these groups for the prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
A new £9.5million funding scheme that will support community-led organisations in England affected by the Covid-19 crisis, has been unveiled.
The Covid-19 Community-Led Organisations Recovery Scheme (CCLORS) will provide grants up to £100,000 to community-led organisations in England that are facing severe financial difficulties as a direct result of the coronavirus lockdown.
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