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Health Education North West Announce Adult Learners Week Awards 2014

23 Jan 2014 - 10:11 by michelle.foster

Health Education North West is celebrating and promoting the national learning campaign Adult Learners Week in 2014 because learning is good for people and organisations.

Health Education North West would like your help to identify staff and volunteers, working in and across the whole of the Health and Social Care Sector, who have been transformed by learning and can inspire others to give learning a go. Nominating your learners and projects is a great way to celebrate learning, showcase what you do and encourage others to get involved.

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Employers: claim a cash incentive and make a difference to Youth Unemployment

23 Jan 2014 - 10:09 by michelle.foster

How does it work?
If you take on an 18-24 year old through Jobcentre Plus, who has been claiming benefits for at least six months, for 16 hours or more each week in a job lasting more than 26 weeks then you could claim a wage incentive.

What wage incentive could I claim?
For full-time work of 30 hours or more a week - £2,275.
For part time work between 16 and 29 hours a week - £1,137.50.

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Health Education North West Announce Adult Learners Week Awards 2014

23 Jan 2014 - 09:30 by michelle.foster

Health Education North West is celebrating and promoting the national learning campaign Adult Learners Week in 2014 because learning is good for people and organisations.

Health Education North West would like your help to identify staff and volunteers, working in and across the whole of the Health and Social Care Sector, who have been transformed by learning and can inspire others to give learning a go. Nominating your learners and projects is a great way to celebrate learning, showcase what you do and encourage others to get involved.

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Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales launches new strategy

22 Jan 2014 - 09:42 by michelle.foster

The Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales has announced its intention to launch a new funding strategy. The new strategy – to be launched in April - reflects discussions with charities and other funders, and will reinforce the Foundation’s ongoing commitment to support small and medium sized charities in a challenging economic funding environment.

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The Premier League and The FA Facilities Fund

22 Jan 2014 - 09:28 by michelle.foster

The Premier League and The FA Facilities Fund, is available to football clubs, schools, councils and local sports associations and is focused on supporting the development of new or refurbished local football facilities.

Managed by the Football Foundation on behalf of the funding partners – the Premier League, The FA and Government, via Sport England – the Fund is a three-year £102m commitment to improving the nation’s grassroots football facilities.

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Report about Manchester's Valuing Young People Board

21 Jan 2014 - 14:37 by Nigel Rose

Nigel Rose, Strategic Lead (Commissioning) for Macc comments on the proceedings of Manchester City Council’s Valuing Young People Board.

Manchester City Council is facing unprecedented levels of cuts. Provision for young people is facing reductions in common with every other area of provision. Officers of the Council are in the process of developing proposals for the cuts which will then come to the Valuing Young People Board for discussion and then out for consultation.

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Lipreading Class

17 Jan 2014 - 15:44 by michelle.foster

Who are lipreading classes for?
Lipreading classes are designed for people with a hearing loss who may be finding it difficult to follow conversations.

Sometimes, friends and families of people with a hearing loss also come along to learn how to communicate better with their friend or relative.

The emphasis of the class is on fully including people with a hearing loss so that they can fully understand what is going on in the class.

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People's Postcode Trust - Small Grants Programme

17 Jan 2014 - 10:27 by michelle.foster

The People's Postcode Trust Small Grants Programme exists to try to make the world a better place through short-term, project specific funding.

Through this programme, funding is provided for projects of up to twelve months in length, ranging from £500 up to £20,000 to registered charities, community and voluntary groups, community interest companies and other not-for-profit organisations.

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