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At The University of Manchester, Year 2 Psychology students have the option to undertake 30-hours of work experience. Many of the students work for local voluntary and community groups doing activities such as working with clients who are homeless, unemployed, in mental health setting etc. helping setup social media channels, designing advertising material etc.

Following consultation with disability organisations, Ekklesia is conducting a survey of people with mental or physical health conditions in order to design a replacement for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). Ekklesia consider the WCA to be too flawed and broken to be satisfactorily fixed. It needs replacing, and the people best able to do this are those who are affected by long term illness.

The capital of Christmas in the UK, undisputed since the arrival of the first Christmas Markets from Europe 17 years ago, Manchester is the perfect place to get in to the Christmas spirit.

The celebration has grown each year with an ambitious spread of festive cheer to each and every corner of the city with attractions for all the family and all ages.

This year, make sure Manchester is on your Christmas list – everything else will simply fall in to place.

The Ambition for Ageing programme will be delivered by a cross-sector partnership, led by GMCVO and funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Local Delivery Leads (LDLs) will lead on the work in 24 wards across 8 local authorities in Greater Manchester.

LDLs for Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Tameside and Wigan were appointed in October 2015.