Strictly Wheelchair Dancing Celebrates Donation from the Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund
Strictly Wheelchair Dancing, based in Manchester, is celebrating after receiving a £300 donation from the GALAXY Hot Chocolate Fund.
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Eyes Wide Open – A new project that challenges prejudice
The staff and students of Manchester Communication Academy have joined together with community members of Harpurhey and surrounding areas to develop a new project that challenges prejudice.
The project is called ‘Eyes Wide Open’, and in its first documentary film it embarks on a process of protecting the communities of North Manchester. It does this by inviting those who label the area and its residents as deprived and disadvantaged, to open their eyes and to take a closer look.
In the words of Laure Junot – ‘Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.’
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Google Global Impact Awards
How would you use technology to change the world?
If you are a British non-profit, Google are inviting you to tell them how you would use innovation to tackle the world’s toughest problems and transform lives.
Applicants are invited to submit a technology-based project that has the potential to change society on a large scale. Google will review your projects based on three criteria:
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Volunteering in Social Care - Do you have a view?
Manchester City Council are reviewing a range of voluntary and community sector contracts/grants and are proposing to expand the use of volunteering as a way of reconciling increasing demand for social care support with cuts to social care funding.
This has triggered some concerns and debate within the VCS and within the Macc team about the proposed project that will ‘stretch their local offer on social care support, by expanding volunteering and community engagement’.
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£150,000 through ACEVO to support charities to win Probation Contracts
The Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) is planning to offer a programme of support to approximately 10 large voluntary organisations to enable them to compete for probation contracts from the Ministry of Justice (e.g. Transforming Rehabilitation). It will help them to apply for grants of up to £150,000 from the Cabinet Office Investment and Contract Readiness Fund. The main focus will be on building consortia.
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We Love MCR Charity - grant available
Applications are invited from Manchester based Charities, Organisations and Others to the ‘We Love MCR Charity’. (The Lord Mayor of Manchester’s Charity Appeal Trust. Registered number 1066972)
Aims of the Charity
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Safeguarding E-learning for Partner Agencies
Manchester City Council are able to provide a quota of free licences - up to around 30 - for external organisations who would like to access basic safeguarding adults e-learning (this includes a Safeguarding Adults Awareness, Domestic Abuse and Mental Capacity Act module).
We can provide additional licences at a cost of £3 per person. This is a reduced rate that we have negotiated with the Virtual College who are contracted to provide the e-learning.
Outlined below is a basic guide to registering staff that all organisations who wish to access this training should follow.
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Woodward Charitable Trust - Children's Summer Playschemes 2013
Each year the trustees of the Woodward Charitable Trust set aside funds for summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5-16 years.
Most grants awarded are in the range of £500 to £1,000. Around 35 grants are made each year.
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Time to Change grants fund – Round 3 now open
Want to run a project to challenge stigma and discrimination in your community and beyond?
The Time to Change grants fund could support you to do this. The Grants will fund projects that bring people with and without mental health problems together and create opportunities for them to have meaningful conversations.
Projects must be led by people with experience of mental health problems. This means that people with first-hand experience take a lead at all levels and stages, from designing the project, to managing and evaluating the project.
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Esmee Fairburn Foundation – Food Strand
The Esmee Fairburn Foundation has a long standing interest in food and in its impact on people, communities and the wider environment.
The Food Strand supports work that demonstrates the important role food plays in wellbeing and that connects people to the food that they eat. As part of this primary aim the Strand seeks to bring about more sustainable food production and consumption policies and practices.
The Strand is open to both large-scale strategic interventions and innovative local work.
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