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This coming spring Grow Wild are giving away free wildflower seed kits to groups who want to add a splash of colour to their area. The kits include wildflower seeds, a growing guide and resources for people to get their neighbours and group members involved in activity, and would work for both growing in containers (e.g. around a community centre or library) or in existing spaces (e.g. borders in a park or a community garden). 
Pilotlight and the Garfield Weston Foundation would like to announce that the Weston Charity Awards are now open for applications. 
The Government has announced the launch of a new funding pot for projects that will celebrate and commemorate the Windrush Generation and their contribution to the country. Windrush Day, which will take place on 22 June 2019, will be the focal point of these projects. 
Do you like Arts and Crafts?
Northmoor Community Association are looking for a creative volunteer who would want to run their Creative Crafty Friendship group.
You would need to be available on Tuesdays between 9.30am-11.30am to set up, organise and run the group (starting in January 2019).
Experience in being creative and crafty would be beneficial.
Northmoor Community Association will offer support, including travel expenses.
The Manchester Safeguarding Adults Board (MSAB) and the Manchester Safeguarding Children Board (MSCB) are statutory bodies made up of organisations that work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of adults, children, young people and their families. Together they make up the Manchester Safeguarding Boards and their role is to coordinate and ensure effective safeguarding across the city of Manchester.
Jam and Justice’s action research projects are beginning to report back, and they’d like to update everyone on what they’ve been doing.
On 3 December 2018, a key document which helped in the creation and understanding of the social model of disability has being published for the first time. Forty four years ago it was compiled by Vic Finkelstein in UPIAS, the new and radical Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation. He called it, Are We Oppressed? and issued it in the summer of 1974. It is now freely available online at: https://tinyurl.com/yd7u9dc7.
Mencap wants people with a learning disability to have the opportunity to achieve the things they want from life...
This training aims to provide you with knowledge on:
Known as the ‘poverty premium’, it has long been understood that low income households in the UK face higher costs for certain items. Greater Manchester Poverty Action’s research, published in November 2018, shows that low income households in Greater Manchester could be paying more than £1000 over the odds for everyday goods and services compared to those on middle and higher incomes.
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