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Independent Choices is a Manchester based charity that has been working for almost forty years with women and their dependents who have been effected by domestic abuse. Independent Choices offer two helplines that serve Greater Manchester: a Women’s Domestic Abuse Helpline and a Community Helpline Language Service which is sensitive to the needs of South Asian Women. Independent Choices take around 5,000 calls per year on their helplines that offer advice, signposting, emotional support and referrals to a network of refuges across the UK.

A new NHS Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) campaign was launched on 9 July. As the start of the summer school holidays near when the numbers of girls taken outside of the UK to be cut increases, this campaign will raise awareness of the severe health implications of FGM for those living in UK who are members of communities affected by FGM.

Are you 15 – 25 Years Old? Are you a Disabled Person? Do you live in Manchester?

From 20 July, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) is running a summer project to create a comic, working with artist Jim Medway.

The comic will be a story around hate crime, looking at what hate crime is and how we can tell people it’s wrong to be abusive and hostile to disabled people.

The Big Lottery Fund’s Celebrate England grant scheme has opened to applications from community groups and organisations that want to hold one off events or activities which celebrate their local community.