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First Steps Enterprise Fund

24 Apr 2015 - 10:04 by michelle.foster

First Steps Enterprise Fund is a £300,000 pilot fund offering loan-grant packages to charities and social enterprises working in communities in the North West and South West of England.

Small community-led organisations can apply for up to £30,000 to help them grow their services and become more sustainable. The investments are the first steps towards accessing the wider social investment market and more financing options.

This fund is for community enterprises looking to take on their first loan to help the organisation move forward from start-up stage.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Business citizenship
Capacity Building
Funding
Social enterprise

Big Issue Invest offer £650K Investment and much more to regional early stage social businesses

24 Apr 2015 - 10:03 by michelle.foster

Big Issue Invest are calling upon early stage social businesses, especially those based outside London and the South East to apply for the Corporate Social Venturing (CSV) 2015 programme which has officially launched. The CSV programme is specifically tailored for early stage social businesses that often face challenges when it comes to securing finance.

Against the current climate of cuts and austerity, developing sustainable businesses that tackle some of society’s biggest challenges is more important than ever.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding

New creative group for sufferers of memory loss

24 Apr 2015 - 10:02 by michelle.foster

Do you have memory loss, or support someone else that does?

Storybox - Creative Café is a brand new group based at Manchester’s Central Library, offering free, fun, creative activities designed especially for people with memory loss, and their family and friends.

The group meets every other Tuesday from 11am-12pm. The next dates are:
28 April
12 May and 26 May
9 June and 23 June
7 July and 21 July

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

VSNW Social Prescribing Survey

24 Apr 2015 - 09:59 by michelle.foster

Social prescribing has become a key agenda. VSNW think that social prescribing could provide an important way to drive change, for the benefit of local people, that focusses on the strengths of our sector.

In order to help VSNW make the case for the sector’s role, they would like to find out what’s happening, what’s already being commissioned and who would like to be involved in this agenda as it develops. In order to do this, they have set up a short survey.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

GP Films In 5 Languages – Which NHS Service to use when you’re unwell

24 Apr 2015 - 09:59 by michelle.foster

Manchester is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in Europe, and is home to over 150 different languages. Working closely with multilingual GPs, a new approach has been developed by the Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups to help reach these audiences. Local GPs have supported the production of videos, which are in Arabic, Bengali, English, Punjabi and Urdu. The GPs explain what to do when you’re feeling unwell and which NHS services to use.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund 2015 to 2016

24 Apr 2015 - 09:58 by michelle.foster

The Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund (HSCVF) provides grants to voluntary sector organisations to:
• Collaborate: deliver a strategic project that plays an effective and integrated role in addressing health, public health and social care needs in conjunction with commissioners
• Innovate: test out a new area of work delivered by their volunteers
• Develop: support the Strategic Vision for Volunteering by investing resources in volunteer support and management systems

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding
Volunteering

National Numeracy Challenge – Don’t let numbers hold you back!

21 Apr 2015 - 15:40 by cheryl.mcalister

The National Numeracy Challenge helps adults learn the maths needed for everyday life.

Around half the adult population have numeracy skills at the level expected of children at primary school and three-quarters are below the target level for school-leavers.

As well as improving performance, the Challenge also aims to transform negative attitudes towards maths and numeracy and to create a positive “can do” approach.

So if you’re the type of person who says ‘I can’t do Maths’ you can have a go at the challenge and start saying ‘I can do Maths’!

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Learning, Skills and Employment

Green and Blue Infrastructure consultation - Have your say on greening the city

16 Apr 2015 - 10:51 by michelle.foster

Manchester City Council is consulting on a proposed strategy for parks, river valleys, trees, gardens and other green spaces. It will use the strategy to decide on more detailed action– by the Council, community groups, residents, businesses and others. It will also be used to support bids for funding.

Manchester City Council is consulting on a draft strategy for Manchester’s 'green and blue infrastructure' – which includes parks, river valleys, gardens, street trees, green roofs, canals and more.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Environment

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