Our Manchester Voluntary and Community Sector Grants Programme Annual Report
The Our Manchester Voluntary and Community Sector (OMVCS) Grants Programme have published their first annual report covering Year 1 of the programme (2018/19).
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The Our Manchester Voluntary and Community Sector (OMVCS) Grants Programme have published their first annual report covering Year 1 of the programme (2018/19).
Let’s keep growing is a community garden project in Longsight providing free activities to Greater Manchester residents of all ages and abilities, there’s no need to book, and light refreshments are provided. No gardening or building experience is necessary.
Upcoming activities:
Saturday 1 February, 2pm-4pm at Longsight Library and Learning Centre (519 Stockport Rd, M12 4NE):
The Manchester Cares Social Club programme for February is packed full of fun activities from a theatre trip to HOME, storytelling at swanky coworking space Work.Life, or a Comedy Show near Ancoats.
Can-Survive UK provides culturally sensitive support and information to people living with and beyond cancer, their families and carers. They are running the following support groups:
Coffee Connect Chat
Have you or anyone else close to you been affected by cancer? Would you like to meet with other people in similar circumstances?
Can-Survive UK welcomes you to a fortnightly Coffee, Connect and Chat support group. Join for board games, dominoes, sewing and knitting, information or just simply a drink and chat. Refreshments provided.
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership have been working with Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust on a baseline workforce survey to capture a snapshot on thoughts and experiences of ‘Psychological Safety in the Workplace’.
This survey has been designed to understand how psychologically safe you feel as an individual within your team, and workplace. This includes the environment that your team leader creates, the beliefs that you hold about your team, and finally the behaviours that you see within the teams you work with.
In the latest GM Poverty Action newsletter the 7 organisations who have already signed up as Principal Partners of GMPA for 2020 are confirmed. There is information about the Turn2us ‘Living Without’, Jubilee Debt and GM Living Wage campaigns. You can read about the Addressing Poverty by Lived Experience Collective and there are the usual forthcoming events.
Gorton Visual Arts held a mosiac art session at the Ross Place Day Centre where people made bees and poppies out of pieces of tile. There is a direct link between being creative and wellness.
There was also cake to help everyone work!
Lifted Carers Centre used their Sharing Our Wellness funding to put on a Carers Christmas Bingo session and a 'Celebration of Achievements' Christmas party at the centre in December 2019.
During the party, a number of carers had their picture taken, showing quotes of what wellness means to them and personal tips on what they do to keep well. These pictures will be available shortly.
Better Things ran a number of workshops for their Sharing Our Wellness funding and through these have created an Autumn Almanac of Wellness (attached below). Also, people shared ideas and opportunities on and with the AutumnAlmanacofWellness @Autumnwellness Twitter account. This was offered as a kind and joyous space on social media, a place which is often very negative and potentially damaging for people.