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Manchester City Council has made the additional funding available under its Local Welfare Scheme to help the most vulnerable residents in crisis situations, for example the homeless or those fleeing violence or domestic abuse.
Adult Learners Week is a national celebration of lifelong learning which encompasses the ALW awards.
The awards celebrate the achievements of those who have made a significant difference to their lives through their learning journey.
If you know of an individual or organisation deserving of an award please visit: www.alw.org.uk/awards/2014 to make a nomination.
Deadline for submission is 5:00pm on 30 January 2014
Collecting evidence about whether community engagement works is difficult, far more difficult than measuring the effectiveness of a new medicine. A new report looks at 361 studies and concludes overall that community engagement works.
The review considered the following questions:
Facebook have started to roll out a new feature called Donate that lets people contribute directly to nonprofits through Facebook.
The Donate feature will appear beside Posts in News Feed shared by participating nonprofits and at the top of their Facebook Pages.
When people click "Donate Now" they can choose the amount, enter their payment information, and immediately donate to that cause. They also have the option to share the nonprofit’s post with their friends.
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.
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
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.
Inspiring Futures: Volunteering for Wellbeing is an exciting volunteer training and placement programme delivered by the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), in partnership with IWM North and Manchester Museum. The three year programme is supported by The Heritage Lottery Fund.
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:
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