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To get a copy of the petition please contact [email protected] or call 020 7840 3147.
Would your organisation benefit from a social work student to help you?
How it works?
Universities are looking for placements for their social work students and particularly value placements in the voluntary and community sector.
The student gets important experience, you get 70-100 hours free help and you also get a one off payment of £1,000.
Strong and healthy organisations need well-trained staff and members to operate effectively.
Please can you spare 5-10 minutes to complete the latest questionnaire by clicking here
The questionnaire offers an ideal opportunity for voluntary community organisations and volunteers to identify specific training needs.
Order Council services, find information, report a problem, request a service, or pay a bill online from your desktop, tablet or mobile phone.
You can get even more from the redeveloped Manchester City Council website with a customer account.
For those leaving school or college, apprenticeships are an opportunity to earn while you learn. Apprenticeships are real jobs and real careers with training, working towards nationally recognised qualifications.
Apprenticeships are real jobs and real careers with training. As paid employees, apprentices earn a wage and learn on the job. They go to college and work towards nationally recognised qualifications.
Many employers see apprentices as the best way of growing their business with loyal and qualified employees.
Together Works is the Social Enterprise Network for Greater Manchester. Using their experience of building sustainable finance models, they have designed a programme to support community groups, charities or start-up enterprises to develop their proposal to sustain or improve the assets and services loved and valued by local communities in the region.
Together Works are seeking applications from people, groups or organisations with:
• Innovative ideas
• A strong cause
• Enthusiasm
• Commitment
Spot purchasing is a new and strange idea to many voluntary organisations but is becoming more common as public bodies seek to reduce costs. Nigel Rose (Macc's Strategic Lead on Commissioning) blogs about the risks and considerations in developing a pricing plan.
Highway Hope engage the community by offering sessions that are open to everyone, like creative writing workshops, cooking, jewellery making, etc.
People have access to a place where they feel safe, are engaged and meet with others. They build relationships within their community which they wouldn’t have had an opportunity to had they stayed at home.
Donations would be spent on materials for the sessions.
Does your community group or a volunteer you know deserve recognition for all their hard work? Macc has launched a series of awards for the voluntary and community sector in Manchester supported by the Voluntary Sector Assembly. We want to celebrate and highlight all the excellent work being carried out in Manchester’s voluntary and community sector. The awards will be presented at a special ceremony at the end of September which will include short films of the shortlisted nominees made by the Manchester Community Reporters.
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