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Volunteer Centres are local organisations that provide support and expertise within the local community, to potential volunteers, existing volunteers and organisations that involve volunteers.
Volunteering can give your confidence a huge boost, can help you learn new skills, gain experience, build up your CV, make connections, improve core skills such as team work and communication, show initiative, demonstrate commitment, and give you valuable character references.
Volunteering is any activity that involves spending time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit an individual, your local community or the environment.
Almost £60,000 has been allocated to 46 community projects across Manchester and Trafford through the first round of the Neighbourhood fund and Adactus can now announce the second round is open.
There is over £17,000 of funding available to residents groups, community groups, charitable organisations or social enterprises working in the areas where Adactus manage homes.
The Thomas Wall Trust will consider grants of up to £1,000 for smaller charities active in serving the social and/or educational needs of their communities, especially where a grant can make a real impact in improving the lives of local people.
The Trust will consider applications from registered charities who:
• Have an annual income of less than £200,000
• Serve the social and/or educational needs of their communities
• Are able to make a real impact in improving the lives of local people.
UpRising is an organisation dedicated to supporting and developing young adults aged 19–25 from diverse backgrounds in order to become the next generation of effective and connected leaders across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Its unique combination of leadership training, mentoring and campaigning means that young adults gain personally from the programme and importantly, they give back to their local communities.
Earlier this year, the Department of Health announced the introduction of deadlines for new cases which require assessment of eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding.
Sir David Nicholson has written to NHS colleagues to inform them of the introduction of deadlines for individuals or their families and representatives wishing to request an assessment of eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare for cases during the period April 2004 to March 2012.
The deadlines are relevant to cases from the following time periods:
Do you want to find out more about Macc?
Do you want to meet the Macc Team?
VCN Meeting
Tuesday 11th September 2012
11am – 1.30pm
Lunch and Networking at 1pm
Venue TBC
Agenda
Capacity Building Team
Information support line: 0333 321 3021
The support line is open Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm
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Policy and Influence Team
Telephone: 0161 834 9823
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