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What is a Standard CRB Check?
A Standard CRB check contains details of all spent and unspent convictions; cautions, reprimands and final warnings from the Police National Computer (PNC).
A dedicated Criminal Records Bureau checking service for Manchester’s voluntary sector
Volunteer Centre Manchester and CRB Manchester are working in partnership to support Manchester’s community and volunteering groups. If your volunteers are required to have a criminal record check (CRB) before starting their volunteering then we have a great offer for you.
Manchester City Council are proposing to change the way in which they spend the £600,000 of equality themed grant funding, including changing the criteria used to decide how to allocate grant funding.
Manchester City Council are asking for your views on these proposed changes, for further information, visit: www.manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/equalities-funding-review, the consultation closes on 31 October 2012 at midnight.
The aim of the Future Ready Fund is ‘To protect and enhance essential and strategically critical services for single homeless people and support them in the transition to becoming sustainable’
This means the fund is there to help organisations get ready for the future.
A new pilot fund has been launched by Sport England with funding from the National Lottery. Awards of between £30,001 and £500,000 are available to fund sports projects that can best contribute to improving health while also growing weekly sports participation.
Sport England is focusing this funding on those who are least active and in this way plan to make a significant contribution to reducing health inequalities and producing the greatest potential health benefit in England.
Media Trust has joined forces with Sainsbury's and Google for this year's Untold Stories initiative, which is designed to provide small charities throughout the UK with the chance to tell their story both online and on Community Channel.
The Edge Fund was initiated by a small group of philanthropists and activists in early 2012 who wanted to explore how funds could be distributed in a way that both devolves the power of donors and creates real and systemic social change.
The Edge Fund seeks to support communities, campaign groups and activists struggling for social, economic and environmental justice, especially those who are:
1. Working for systemic change – those who seek to dismantle and replace the structures and processes that create oppression, inequality and environmental destruction;
These are some of the projects currently as part of the Manchester Transforming Local Infrastructure programme.
Kickstarter, the US crowdfunding platform for creative projects, has opened for UK projects. Project details can be entered from today, but the fundraising won't begin until 31 October.
In the USA Kickstarter has generated over $350 million from more than 2.5 million people for 30,000 projects since it launched in April 2009.
13 support organisations in Manchester are now working together to make sure local voluntary and community groups get the best support possible.
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