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EnglishArabicBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIgboItalianJapaneseKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)LatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalayMalteseNepaliNorwegianPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSudaneseSwahiliSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelshYorubaOne of the things I love most about working in the voluntary sector is that if you have a really good idea you can generally find a way to make it happen. It might take a while – things like our State of the Sector and Civil Economy work were on my wishlist for years before we were finally able to publish the finished work. But sometimes you can be taken by surprise at how fast you can go from the idea to it actually happening.
There is a longstanding cross-party consensus that society generally, and the state more specifically, has a unique and unconditional responsibility for all children, encompassing duties to ensure their education, health and protection and to uphold their rights and freedoms as citizens. Global economic crises and austerity do not weaken this public duty, they only make it more urgent. Children’s public services are among the most important manifestations of this duty. Their funding, design, delivery and workforces are crucial to the wellbeing of children.
Following the great success of The Spirit of Manchester Awards last year, Macc wants to extend the event to include a city-wide show case of talents, creativity and interests in the thousands of staff, volunteers and supporters across Manchester.
People experiencing poverty and disadvantage are often the most affected by severe weather such as heat waves and flooding. Severe weather is likely to occur more often with a changing climate, increasing the demand for voluntary and community sector services.
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Greater Manchester Police have worked with the local community to significantly disrupt criminal activity in Gorton, resulting in numerous cash seizures under the Proceed of Crime Act. Some of the money taken from criminals has been used for The Pride of Gorton Awards, so that local residents and community groups can be recognised for the huge difference they make to their local area.
The new grants programme from the Money Advice Trust is offering small grants to support agencies that provide money and debt advice to individuals and businesses, which will help them to help more people, more effectively.
Grants of up to £30,000 per year for up to three years are available to charitable organisations in the UK.
Heart Research UK Healthy Heart Grants of up to £5,000 and up to £10,000 are available for new, original and innovative projects that actively promote Heart Health and help to prevent, or reduce, the risk of heart disease in specific groups or communities.
The Healthy Heart Grant is only available for community or voluntary organisations, registered charities or other not for profit organisations for projects that actively promote heart health or reduce the risk of heart disease.
Clean City is a project to make Manchester greener and cleaner, and is funded by Manchester Airport. East Manchester regeneration team have been allocated a pot of money from the Clean City fund and now they're organising some drop in events so that local businesses and residents can pop in and tell them what the priorities should be for how the money is spent.
The Pride in East Manchester project has been allocated funding, and need you to tell them your ideas on how this can be used to improve the area.
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