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Fareshare Greater Manchester - 4.49 Tonnes of Food
“I would struggle financially and turn to crime in order to get food”. Eric was referred to one of the organisations Fareshare delivers to, Mustard Tree, after moving from homelessness into his first tenancy. He likes everything about the Food Club he is a part of and is glad it is here.
This was a busy day with eight stories:
Manchester Deaf Centre - "I feel like I belong to a community"
The DAVE (Deaf, Actively, Volunteering, Experience) project helps 35 young people (aged 16-25), with a wide range of hearing defects, to manage the transition from education to whatever they want to do next.
Seven stories were told on Wednesday 21 September:
Sow the City - making Manchester full of beans!
Sow the City is a social enterprise on a mission. It wants to take vacant and derelict bits of Manchester and turn each one into a green oasis, where members of the community are supported to design a garden to grow their own fruit and vegetables. They have already worked with over 80 community groups in Manchester to do this, and today was a step closer to starting work on a new site.
Four Spirit Stories happened on Tuesday 20 September:
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit - "Thanks for bringing our Dad here. Now we are happy"
There were three stories that happened on 19 September:
The Proud Trust - A cafe which is open to everyone on the public's own terms
The second edition of the Manchester Health & Social Care Stakeholder Bulletin is out now. It contains an update on plans for the new single commissioning and hospital systems, and the latest information on the Local Care Organisation. 
The bulletin also sets out the overall plans for integrating health and social care in Manchester, which are summarised by this diagram:
Santander is a leading financial services provider that offers a wide range of personal and commercial financial products and services in the UK.
The bank serves around 14 million active customers through their branch network and regional Corporate Business Centres. 
They have launched an exciting new community programme called The Discovery Project to help one million people by 2020.
Kick the Dust aims to make heritage relevant to the lives of young people, aged 11-25, now and in to the future. Building on their needs and interests, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) wants to see a greater number and diversity of young people benefit from high quality engagement with heritage. Transform how heritage engages young people with an ambitious, youth-focused project. You can apply for a grant of £500,000-£1,000,000 as part of a consortium. 
The Transform Foundation has recently launched a new grant programme, which will be providing £18,000 grants to a select number of non-profits, to fund the design and build of a new website for them. The grant will include a range of cutting edge tools for engaging with supporters and service users as well as the costs of the strategy, design and training 
required to get the website up and running.
The Second Half Fund is a partnership between Nesta and the Office for Civil Society. Nesta and the Office for Civil Society are looking to support the growth of innovations that mobilise the time and talents of many more people aged over 50, to help others, alongside public services in four key priority areas: 
• Children and young people: People aged 50+ supporting and encouraging children and young people to succeed and find employment through social action
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