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Greater Manchester’s LGBT Foundation is hosting a community event in Sackville Gardens to commemorate International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) on Tuesday 17 May from 5.45 – 7pm. 
This is an opportunity for the people across the city region to come together to support the LGBT community and to remember those who have been the victims of hate crime.
Cedar Mount Youth Club has been run by Mancunian way for three years on a Friday evening. Mancunian Way is looking for a new youth provider to take over this provision so they can concentrate on their new Salford Centre. 
Skipton Building Society’s Grassroots Giving community funding scheme has launched for 2017 and this year there is a total fund of £82,000 to help small groups and organisations make a difference in their neighbourhood, there 164 pots of £500 to give away. 
Rosa’s Voices from the Front Line programme supports women’s organisations to shine a light on their fight for gender equality in the UK, by resourcing advocacy and activists with lived experience of disadvantage. 
Most of us suffer from anxiety in our life. However, for some of us, it can take over our lives, with excessive worrying, getting panicky a lot and having panic attacks. If you are over 55 and anxiety is affecting your life, the Overcoming Anxiety group is here to help. 
Age Friendly Manchester is developing a Generations Together Manifesto. This is all about creating a set of key actions that Council and other organisations can use in their work bringing older and younger people together. Age Friendly Manchester have some early ideas of what could be in the manifesto. These have come from a two day Intergenerational symposium that they held last October at the Coop. 
With a general election now scheduled for 8 June, many charities will be wondering how they can engage with the public and politicians to raise awareness of their work and the issues that matter to them. Charlotte Ravenscroft explains what charities can, and can't, do over the coming weeks. 
We were commissioned by the three Manchester Clinical Commisioning Groups to run Community Reporter video training with members of groups working with people with mental health issues. This was part of a widerconsultation on Mental Health service provion in Manchester.
See the films of some of the particpants talking about their experiences:
Good Finance is a new website to help charities and social enterprises navigate the often complex world of social investment, has just launched. Social investment is the use of repayable finance to achieve a social as well as a financial return. It was designed by charities and social enterprises and developed in collaboration with Access, Big Society Capital, Government and key sector partners. 
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