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The Eastlands Homes Community Grant has been launched to support projects and activities operating in east and south-east Manchester.
Applications are encouraged from all of Eastlands Homes areas, but must benefit the local community in order to be considered.
This is a key strategy for Manchester – the UK’s first Age Friendly City. It sets out how housing for older people will develop over the coming years and what action is needed to be taken now. It links to how care and health services will be provided for the older population. It describes how Manchester can build to make the city an attractive place for people to grow older, living as independently as possible.
All of the documents relating to the consultation are available on the website to be read or printed.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has £2m funding to allocate in 2015/16 to the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) to provide advice and support to their customers who need extra help understanding and complying with their obligations and claiming their entitlements.
In May 2014, HMRC launched its new service for customers who need extra help, following a pilot in the North East of England.
Big Lunch Extras is designed to help people interested in bringing about small, positive changes in their neighbourhoods. It builds on the success of the Big Lunch which you might have heard of, and which this year saw 4.8M neighbours sit down and have lunch together.
The Work Place Learning Programme is here to assist small and medium size enterprises by funding training to further develop their employee’s skills and abilities and can support small to medium enterprises with up to 999 employees.
The Manchester College can offer training to your employees at no cost to your business.
Training offered:
• Customer Service
• IT Training
• First Aid at Work
• Business administration
• Basic skills
• and many more
There really is allsorts for young Mancunians to do over the school holidays this Autumn – try a different activity to learn new skills or just develop those you’ve already got.
Whether you fancy yourself as a BMX pro, or just want to kick a ball about with friends, the wide range of activities should keep all age-groups busy – you can even get involved in a Circus Skills workshop!.
Forever Manchester administers a number of funds that are available to groups and individuals across Greater Manchester.
The following grants are currently available:
Unity Radio 92.8FM is pleased to announce the North West's newest vocational media programme, Unity Creation, supported by the European Social Fund.
The University of Manchester School of Psychological Sciences have introduced a module containing a work experience/placement element and they have approximately 220 second year Psychology students seeking projects who are available to complete a minimum of 30 hours of work (paid or unpaid).
A BBC Watchdog Special on saving money is looking for families with 2 children (aged from 5 to 16 years) with a household income of up to £30,000.
They can teach you how to reduce your household bills and get things for free without changing the quality of your life.
The families must be happy to be filmed for a maximum of five days during November
For further information and to take part contact Bronagh McKenna on 0773 496 6531 or email: [email protected]
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