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Refugee World Cup, Family Fun Day and Refugee Cultural celebration on Saturday 23 June 2018

25 May 2018 - 10:45 by michelle.foster

You are invited to participate in the Refugee World Cup, Family Fun Day and Refugee Cultural celebration on Saturday 23 June 2018, at Albert Park, Grecian Street, M7 1JF. The event is part of the Refugee Week celebration. Refugee Week is a UK-wide programme of arts, cultural, sport and educational activities and events that celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK and to create better understanding between different communities and to encourage successful integration enabling refugees to live in safety and to continue making a valuable contribution to the UK.

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Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Social enterprise uses small actions for a big impact in dementia care in Manchester

25 May 2018 - 10:40 by michelle.foster

A local social enterprise took on a time banking project to help improve the quality of life of people with dementia in care homes in Manchester. Unlimited Potential

Marcia Powell, who is the project lead from Unlimited Potential, piloted Time to Connect for nine months at EachStep, a care home in Blackley with residents living with dementia.

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Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

Whatcharity.com spearheads national roll out with expansion in Manchester

25 May 2018 - 10:37 by michelle.foster

Continuous budget cuts to services mean more responsibility falls to charities to help their communities. whatCharity.com is a ground-breaking charity tech platform providing a smarter solution to charitable giving, helping individuals and companies find and support charities close to their hearts, homes and offices. To support the charities in the North East of England, whatCharity.com will be meeting with charities and companies to launch its Manchester base on 5 June 2018 as part of its national roll out strategy.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building

Early Help survey

18 May 2018 - 09:58 by michelle.foster

Manchester’s Early Help Strategy is being refreshed in 2018. Children’s Services are wanting to find out what’s working well, how partnership between public services and voluntary sector can work better together and how we can improve outcomes for children, young people and families in the city. Manchester Safeguarding Boards

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Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Children and Families

Community Leaders join Greater Manchester’s Devolution Reference Group

18 May 2018 - 09:55 by michelle.foster

The Greater Manchester Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Devolution Reference Group has welcomed two new members.

Khadija Tily, Operations Manager at the regeneration and development charity KYP in Rochdale) has over 35 years’ experience working in education and the VCSE sector. Her 20 year vision for Greater Manchester is to see a marked change and improvement in specific localities that have not seen sufficient development in the last 30 years. She fears that the dialogue and landscape have changed very little in that time.

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Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Policy and Influence

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