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Community Events Funding is available to registered community groups as development funding to help community based not-for-profit celebrations and events grow and move towards becoming self-sustaining. 
Macc Christmas and New Year closure information
Our offices will be closed from 4pm on Friday 21 December and will open in the New Year on Wednesday 2 January. The Macc team sends best wishes to all during this festive period and looks forward to working with you again next year.
Here you will find details of local voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) services operating over the Christmas and New Year period, as well as details of Manchester City Councils services and local NHS services.
Here is a list of Manchester Cares free Social Clubs for people aged 65 and over. All events are hosted by younger people in their 20s and 30s who want to meet you and hear your stories. 
If you're over 65 Manchester Cares can help you stay warm, active, healthy and connected this winter.
Call Amy on 0161 207 0800, if you would like Manchester Cares to:
6.3 million people currently give up their time every year to help sport and activity happen. 
Sport England wants to learn more about your volunteering experience to help inform its work to improve the support and opportunities available to volunteers.
Your responses to this survey will be vital in shaping this work.
After gathering and analysing a wide range of evidence, and holding conversations with the public and with stakeholders, the Arts Council have identified a series of proposed outcomes that they believe they should aim to achieve by 2030. 
The Generation Program consists of two clinical trials testing investigational study medications to see if they are effective in Alzheimer's. Your help is needed. The Generation Program are recruiting people aged 65 – 75 who has not had any diagnosis of memory loss. Join the fight against Alzheimer's. A fight we can take on together. 
What’s open over the festive period?
Click here for a list of what is open over the festive period or download the attached A4 double sided timetable of drop-in centres around Manchester that are open between 22 December and 1 January. For meals, entertainment, advice and more. 
The Christmas Dinner Project started in Manchester in 2013 with one clear vision: that no care leaver will be alone on Christmas Day. It’s about local communities across the UK, coming together to put on dinners on Christmas Day for care leavers between 18 and 25.
Donations are welcome to the Lemn Sissay Foundation to support this vision.
The Smallwood Trust are inviting applications for projects that are demonstrating good practice in achieving outcomes for women on low incomes by building their skills, confidence and aspirations to enable them to enter into employment. 
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