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Through visiting the agencies centre’s, which are located throughout Manchester, people can find out information and receive support on Job Seekers Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Income Support, and Child Benefit.
The service will also offer information and support on:
• Tax Credits
• Housing
• Debt, Money and Income Maximisation
• Referral and signposting to other services
Different centres are open each day as shown on the enclosed calendar
Women’s Aid Federation have launched a new educational resource
Causeway is a British-Irish exchange programme that aims to strengthen and improve relationships between young people, and those that who work with them, on the islands of Britain and Ireland.
Causeway projects promote working in a team and provide a valuable avenue for young people to explore their perceptions of identity and to deal with issues of tolerance and diversity.
Strictly Wheelchair Dancing, based in Manchester, is celebrating after receiving a £300 donation from the GALAXY Hot Chocolate Fund.
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.’
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:
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’.
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.
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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