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If you support a relative, partner or friend who due to physical or mental illness, disability, frailty or addiction could not manage without that support - and if you are unwaged for the support you give - you are a carer.
Gorton Community Grocer is a food-sharing project redistributing groceries and toiletries, which opens on 9 February, at Gorton Community Centre, 543 Abbey Hey Lane, M18 8PF. Gorton Community Grocer will be open every Friday 9.30am-12pm. 
In the latest newsletter Greater Manchester Poverty Action(GMPA) are asking if your organisation might be interested in joining with their new Principal Partners to support the work of GMPA?
This is your chance to be part of one of the most spectacular, ambitious and popular public art events Manchester has ever seen. 
From July – September 2018 over eighty individually designed, super-sized Bee sculptures will form an art trail across the city’s streets, parks and public spaces – taking people on an unBeelievable journey of discovery. Just about everybody will want to be part of the buzz about Manchester!
The Charity Commission has put together a concise guide focusing on key duties and responsibilities that trustees need to be aware of from the outset. They are now looking for trustees to help them test the design and use any feedback to improve it. If you have become a trustee in the last year – or have a hand in appointing and helping new trustees – the Commission plans to hold events in London over the coming months and will also be putting in place a facility to enable remote testing.
Community Business Weekend celebrates the 7000 community businesses in local hands across England. In 2017, 200 community businesses opened their doors and used the long weekend to demonstrate the positive impact they have on society and tell their stories of success. 
Hosting an open doors event is a great way for you to build your local connections and inspire people to get involved in your community business.
All across this country there are families who struggle to put food on the table; children are going to school hungry and parents are skipping meals so that their kids can eat an evening meal. 
The Together Network wants to continue their work to stop this and they’re calling on churches, schools, families, and individuals throughout England to stand up to food poverty – and have some fun in the process.
Our latest data sets on our work with voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and volunteers is now available on our website here: www.manchestercommunitycentral.org/policy-and-influence/open-data
Paul Nethercott, Community Partnership Manager, Manchester Foundation Trust gave an introduction to the Single Hospital Service
Presentation slides
Existing partnerships presentations
Care and Repair
Earlier today I read part of a new report by the King's Fund called ‘Re-imagining Community Services’. It analyses the progress made toward creating new models of community services and summarises some of the key principles that should guide the development. It’s illustrated by a number of case studies (some rather less convincing than others – Wigan as an exemplar of working with local assets – it doesn't even have an infrastructure provider since Wigan CVS collapsed a couple of years ago).
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