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Local social enterprise, Unlimited Potential, has published Fulfilling Your Potential – a guide for autistic people – and Untapped Potential – a guide for local employers.
Asda has launched a ‘community cuppa’ initiative in around 100 stores which offers their café space to local groups for free to meet from 2pm-6pm. Attendees also receive a free tea or coffee.
Are you a Manchester voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisation?
Would you like to share a story of your everyday activity supporting people experiencing homelessness, as part of the second 2023 Spirit of Manchester Story Week in November?
We are looking for 20 VCSE organisations to provide stories which we will share during the week of 27 November - 1 December.
In the latest newsletter, GM Poverty Action share the impact their Money Matters programme has had in its first year, and why they are now urging for a nationwide rollout of the scheme. There is an 
invite to the Challenge Poverty Week event on 16 October, as we come together to identify how we can tackle poverty locally.
The agenda for this meeting included a report focusing on the Pennine Acute Aggregation Update, which detailed some major changes to frontline health services including Dexa (bone density) scanning, Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) services, Urology and Trauma & Orthopaedics. There were also several proposed changes that would affect North Manchester residents in terms of service quality, equality, patient choice, travel and access. Discussions included ensuring that in the majority of cases, patients should receiving ongoing care in a venue close to their home.
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Pathway Fund, a new Black and Global Majority-led social investment wholesaler, is collaborating with open innovation organisation, Do It Now Now (DiNN), to deliver a cutting-edge enterprise development programme supporting Black and 
Global Majority-led charities and social enterprises.
Greater Manchester to welcome new public art trail to promote mental health awareness this winter
Creative studio and multidisciplinary arts collective We are Willow, has collaborated with global art producer Wild in Art to deliver ‘Six Places In A Different Light’. A series of six striking installations across Greater Manchester to promote mental health awareness and wellbeing.
The project is funded and supported by the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership, Salford City Council, The University of Salford, LandsecU+I and Arts Council England.
‘I am pleased to see that, the human values that started with HARP (Hulme Advocacy Resource Project), are still alive and well in Manchester Mind today.’ John Butler, one of the founders of HARP
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