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The Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund

10 Jan 2013 - 14:20 by michelle.foster

The Mars brand Galaxy Hot Chocolate has created a charitable fund to help small, local community groups and charities across the UK.

For the next three months it will select organisations to receive a donation of £300. A total of 60 donations will be made. There will also be a monthly People's Choice award in which the public can vote for their favourite local charity or community project.

The Galaxy Hot Chocolate Fund are looking to help small, local community based projects and community minded people.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding

Greater Manchester’s Energy Switching Scheme

4 Jan 2013 - 11:26 by michelle.foster

Greater Manchester’s Energy Switching Scheme is being organised by the ten councils within Greater Manchester (Manchester, Bury, Oldham, Salford, Stockport, Wigan, Bolton, Rochdale, Tameside and Trafford). The scheme brings together a number of people who want to switch providers into one ‘auction’. Energy providers then bid for their business by offering the best available prices.

The more people join the collective scheme, the better a deal everybody gets.

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Other

Community First Endowment Challenge in the North West

4 Jan 2013 - 11:24 by michelle.foster

Community Foundations operating across the North West have endowment match funding available for voluntary sector organisations wishing to endowment build.

The match is available via the Government’s Community First Endowment Challenge until March 2015.

Examples of types of scenarios that may qualify for the Community First Endowment Challenge include:
- A charity selling off land or wishing to maintain a building
- A voluntary and community organisation that is seeking to modernise the way it operates

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Community First
Other

Dealing with Neglect

21 Dec 2012 - 09:40 by nicola.shanahan

Neglect

Recently I attended a neglect summit organised by Manchester Safeguarding Children Board. A summit seems like a heady title but felt fitting for the task at hand. The summit was facilitated by Professor Jan Howarth who is working with several LSCB’s around issues of neglect and has led several research projects and written books on multi-agency approaches to neglect.

Shared Topic Areas: 
Children and Families
Health and Wellbeing
Young People

North Manchester Ending Youth Violence Funding Opportunity

20 Dec 2012 - 11:30 by michelle.foster

The Enthusiasm Trust has received funding from the Home Office through Manchester City Council to tackle Violent Crime, and Gun & Gang related crime.

The Trust have developed an Arrows programme which is a capacity building project to improve the ability of organisations and individuals to effect change within their communities.

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Sector News
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Funding
Young People

Awards for All England Regional Pilot

20 Dec 2012 - 11:29 by michelle.foster

Projects throughout England now have the opportunity to apply for repeat and on-going activities under Awards for All in a pilot scheme running until the end of March 2013.

Currently Awards for All does not fund on-going, regular or repeat activities, as the programme has focused on ‘new’ project ideas. However, in these challenging times the Big Lottery are increasingly aware of the pressures smaller groups face with rising costs and cuts to funding, and want to respond to this by looking at alternative ways of funding projects that support those most in need.

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Sector News
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Funding

Support for applicants to the Manchester Equalities Funding

Manchester City Council has launched its Equalities Funding Grant Programme. The Equalities Funding Programme is worth approximately £660,000 per year and provides grants of up to £40,000 per year to voluntary and community sector groups to deliver projects to communities, which address inequalities faced by sections of the community in Manchester.

The City Council anticipate that there will be few applications requesting the full £40,000 and expect to fund a broad range of smaller projects.

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