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Grants from the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) are available to VCSE organisations that deliver community-based services to women offenders in Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside and Wigan (1 grant allocation per district).
GMCVO is working with the PCC to help voluntary organisations access this opportunity for funding, which aims to ensure that there is a minimum standard of provision for all women across Greater Manchester. (The other four authority areas already have VCSE providers that deliver to this standard).
Manchester City Council is consulting on the future of Ancoats and New Islington. An updated neighbourhood development framework has been produced and local residents and businesses are being asked to comment on the proposals.
You can come along and view the proposals at one of the drop in sessions on:
• Thursday 3 July 2014, 2.30pm - 7pm at St Michael's Church
• Thursday 17 July 2014, 2.30pm - 7pm at Vivid Lounge, Great Ancoats Street
• Tuesday 22 July 2014, 8am - 10am at Unit 2, Royal Mills, Redhill Street, Ancoats
If you become sick or disabled and lose your job you want to know that you will be supported. Poorly designed rules make it difficult to determine who is fit for work and who isn’t. Citizens Advice are calling on the Government to make ESA fit for work.
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen announcements of the Queens Award for Voluntary Service and the Birthday Honours. Of course I always check these to see if any local people or groups have won recognition for their work and it’s been great to see Manchester well represented. Here’s a quick list
Queens Award for Voluntary Service 2014
Romanian Roma migrants in Greater Manchester live mostly in the Gorton/Levenshulme/Longsight area.
Amina Lone and Dan Silver of SARF have produced, for Open Society Foundations, a must-read report about white working class people living in Higher Blackley.
'Fulfilling Potential?' is a new report by Catherine Hale, co-published by Mind and The Centre for Welfare Reform, it outlines the abject failure of the Government's back-to-work programme.
The report describes the experience of those sick and disabled people who are put into the 'Work Related Activity Group' in order to help them find work. The report found:
Manchester City Council is prepared to receive proposals from community organisations based in Longsight, Manchester on the future running of the community centre at 481 Stockport Road in Longsight, currently known as “The Pakistani Community Centre”.
The successful organisation will be invited to enter into a full repair and insure lease with Manchester City Council in respect of the above property. The specific terms of the lease will be dependent upon the nature of the successful bid and will be negotiated with the successful applicant on completion of this process.
Started in 2005, Big Issue Invest (BII) backs social businesses, charities, and ventures that tackle poverty and inequality. BII have invested more than £20 million in over 170 organisations to improve the quality of life in Britain’s poorest communities.
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