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Mind your money is working across Manchester to give social housing residents the skills and confidence they need to access affordable financial services without being forced to resort to loan sharks or payday loans.
Race on the Agenda have started the petition "The British Government: Keep the Public Sector Equality Duty" and need your help to get it off the ground.
If you are affected disproportionately by stop and search policies, school exclusions, poor access to public services or other forms of institutional discrimination, the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) is the only provision within the law to fight such institutional discrimination effectively.
Manchester: A Certain Future is a stakeholder Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) for the city of Manchester. It sets out the actions that will need to be taken by citizens and organisations in the city in order to meet two objectives by 2020: reducing CO2 emissions by 41%; changing the culture to one appropriate for a low carbon city.
Manchester Climate Monthly
Short Story Contest
Manchester Climate Monthly are looking for short stories on the theme of "Manchester (UK) in a warmer world"
Top prize is £200 in cold hard cash. There are second and third prizes too!
Word limit is 2000 words. Entries close Friday 16th August, and winners will be announced at a public event held during Manchester Literature Festival.
See full terms and conditions at
The Hilden Charitable Fund has allocated a small budget to help community groups run summer play schemes for disadvantaged communities. Some priority will be given to projects which show they are inclusive of children from refugee families, and show BME involvement.
Grants awarded range from £500 to £1,500.
What will be funded:
• Projects for children aged 5 to 18 years
• Locally based schemes lasting from 2 to 6 weeks
• Schemes with strong volunteer support
Go ON Manchester is running a series of Roadshow events in partnership with the University of Manchester student volunteer programme, and with the support of the GMB Reachout project Learning bus and unionlearn.
NCVO and Serco have jointly written a code of practice to cover the relationships between the private sector and the voluntary sector. Its scope is wider than sub-contracting but in practice for many voluntary organisations this has been the only time that they have had contact with Prime Contractors. The experience has often not been a positive one.
The Awards aim to reward examples of outstanding campaigns, strategies, projects and performance, backed up by hard evidence of success.
All UK-based voluntary organisations – registered charities, not-for-profit organisations, social enterprises and campaigning groups - are eligible to enter.
Entries must cover work carried out during the period 1 May 2012 to 30 April 2013
The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester and the Manchester Museum are hosting a series of discussion events exploring the development of a sustainable future for Manchester.
These events will bring together experts from outside the university and academic researchers to present the pertinent issues, ideas and solutions surrounding transport, clothing, housing, biodiversity and food.
Salford Foundation is one of the very few VCS organisation in Greater Manchester that has trialed the cost benefit analysis (CBA) model developed by New Economy and a central plank of the Greater Manchester Community Budgets pilot.
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