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Grow Wild funding – Create your own Grow Wild Community Site

19 Dec 2013 - 16:05 by michelle.foster

A Grow Wild community site is a place where local people use UK native plants to create a space for everyone to enjoy.

Grow Wild are awarding £500 to £5,000 for each Grow Wild community site.

At the moment, your Grow Wild site might be an unloved, neglected and rundown area that you’d like to reclaim for the local community. You just need to tell Grow Wild how you want to turn it into an inspiring space for everyone.

With the funding, people from all over the UK will create stunning sites that everyone will love and use.

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

Tesco Charity Trust Larger Grants

19 Dec 2013 - 16:03 by michelle.foster

The Tesco Charity Trust offers grants of between £4000 and £25,000 to charities working around their stores, and in the countries they source from. Tesco prioritise applications in the areas of children’s education and welfare, those with disabilities and the elderly.

Tesco Charity are now accepting applications for the January 2014 round of Larger Grants.

The Tesco Charity Trust considers requests for funding from charities working with:
• Children’s welfare and education
• Elderly people’s welfare
• Adults and children with disabilities

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

Free entitlement for two year olds

19 Dec 2013 - 16:02 by michelle.foster

You may have heard of the free Early Education (childcare) entitlement for two year olds.

Manchester has been funded to provide Free Early Education for 2,270 of the most deprived two year olds in 2013 and 4,500 in 2014. Children are entitled to 15 hours of early learning in a range of settings for up to 38 weeks across the city. Manchester City Council want to ensure all two year olds who are eligible access their entitlement and would be grateful for your support in raising awareness and where possible support families to take up this free offer.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Children and Families

Funded training programme

19 Dec 2013 - 11:47 by cheryl.mcalister

The Training Brokers have recently been granted funding to work with small businesses and charities in the Greater Manchester area to deliver fully funded vocational training to staff and volunteers working over 8 hours per week.
The training will consist of portfolio completion, observation and assessment; this will be done entirely at the workplace and one of our trained assessors will make regular visits to staff whilst they are working.
We offer several vocational training courses including:

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building

Greater Manchester Work Programme Leavers Tender Update

17 Dec 2013 - 16:35 by Nigel Rose

In order to facilitate the opportunity for organisations to act as partners for this tender, Salford Council is acting as a broker to exchange information between lead contractors and sub-contractors. Sub-contractors send their information into Salford Council who will then pass on that information to lead contractors. Further details are available on The Chest.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Commissioning
Funding
Learning, Skills and Employment
Policy and Influence

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What you know, what you should know and what you don't know about being a trustee

16 Dec 2013 - 15:26 by sarah.whitelegg

To mark Trustees Week, November 2013, the Capacity building team at Macc invited trustees of Manchester charities to attend a free seminar, delivered by Moira Protani, Partner and Head of the Charities Department at Wilsons Solicitors LLP. The session was a great opportunity for existing trustees to revisit their responsibilities and check any gaps in their knowledge -it can be difficult to know what you don’t know!- and a great introduction for new trustees.

Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building

Trustee Seminar – What you know, what you should know and what you don’t know about being a trustee

Macc hosted this seminar to mark Trustees Week 2013.

A number of trustees from a variety of voluntary community sector organisations within the city of Manchester attended.

Delivered by Moira Protani, Partner and head of the Charities Department at Wilsons Solicitors LLP.

Moira is an expert in charity law. She advises on the establishment of charities, trustee powers and duties, schemes, taxation, grant-making, fundraising, mergers, the disposal of land and buildings, dealing with the Charity Commission, constitutional and good governance issues.

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