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EnglishArabicBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIgboItalianJapaneseKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)LatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalayMalteseNepaliNorwegianPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSudaneseSwahiliSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelshYorubaA local social enterprise took on a time banking project to help improve the quality of life of people with dementia in care homes in Manchester. 
Marcia Powell, who is the project lead from Unlimited Potential, piloted Time to Connect for nine months at EachStep, a care home in Blackley with residents living with dementia.
Continuous budget cuts to services mean more responsibility falls to charities to help their communities. whatCharity.com is a ground-breaking charity tech platform providing a smarter solution to charitable giving, helping individuals and companies find and support charities close to their hearts, homes and offices. To support the charities in the North East of England, whatCharity.com will be meeting with charities and companies to launch its Manchester base on 5 June 2018 as part of its national roll out strategy.
In NCVO’s latest Charity governance round-up they have included information about a new simple compliance checklist for trustees they have developed; the Charity Commission’s welcome pack for new trustees; and the Association of Chairs new Beacon programme for chairs leading smaller charities. 
Today our thoughts are with the families and friends of those who died and those whose lives will be forever affected by the horrific events of that night. We want you to know that you are not alone, we stand with you. 
Sarah Whitelegg, Capacity Building Manager, Macc welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Joe Saxton, Driver of Ideas, nfpSynergy gave an entertaining and informative summary of the current funding landscape. His slides appear on the screen during the video below:
Young Manchester is passionate about giving children and young people the opportunity to play. Open access playschemes are a fantastic way for children to make new friends, stay active and learn through doing over the school holidays. 
Good mental health is fundamental to all our lives, and something that needs to be protected and enhanced. This is Me aims to do just that. 
Manchester’s Early Help Strategy is being refreshed in 2018. Children’s Services are wanting to find out what’s working well, how partnership between public services and voluntary sector can work better together and how we can improve outcomes for children, young people and families in the city. 
The Greater Manchester Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Devolution Reference Group has welcomed two new members.
Khadija Tily, Operations Manager at the regeneration and development charity KYP in Rochdale) has over 35 years’ experience working in education and the VCSE sector. Her 20 year vision for Greater Manchester is to see a marked change and improvement in specific localities that have not seen sufficient development in the last 30 years. She fears that the dialogue and landscape have changed very little in that time.
There is an opportunity for VCSE organisations to be involved with the development of a new VCSE School Readiness Task and Finish group linked to the work of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority around the Mayor’s priority on School Readiness.
The first meeting of this group is taking place at Longsight Community Primary School on Thursday 7 June from 12.30pm – 3.30pm. It will focus on the creation of a VCSE group to drive forward school readiness work in GM and to work through how this connects to the wider GM school readiness agenda to look at the development of the group.
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