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EnglishArabicBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIgboItalianJapaneseKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)LatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalayMalteseNepaliNorwegianPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSudaneseSwahiliSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelshYorubaLocal Charities Day takes place on 15 December 2017. Led by the Office for Civil Society, the day will celebrate and shine a spotlight on the work of small local charities and community groups. The day will provide local charities with a platform to promote the fantastic work they are doing and the many, varied benefits they bring to people, communities and good causes across the UK. 
Police, local authorities, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, young people and an MP have launched a campaign to stop criminal gangs from grooming children and vulnerable adults to commit crime.
The campaign, known as ‘Trapped’, aims to raise awareness of criminals who are grooming and exploiting children and young adults to commit crime on their behalf.
Offenders take victims from urban areas to the countryside or coastal areas to sell drugs. Sometimes victims are trafficked closer to home, and are moved around Greater Manchester.
The Our Manchester Strategy (2016-2025) sets out Manchester City Council’s long-term vision for Manchester’s future and provides a framework for action by them and their partners across the city. The overarching vision is for Manchester to be in the top flight of world-class cities in 2025. It will be a city: 
Greater Manchester is currently assessing the use of their online multi agency Greater Manchester Safeguarding Children Procedures which the Manchester Safeguarding Children’s Board adopts.
To complete the short survey, visit: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/C7XGFBQ by 30 November 2017.
New Manchester charity, Young Manchester, has partnered with the #iwill Fund to create a £2 million partnership to support social action through youth and play provision across the City of Manchester. 
City Year UK believe that young people can change the world. For a full academic year the City Year volunteers, aged between 18-25 years, act as role models and mentors to children in schools in disadvantaged communities, helping them to reach their full potential. 
As part of Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) 2018 Women’s Cycling campaign, and in support of International Women’s Day, they are offering the opportunity for clubs, groups or organisations, located within Greater Manchester, to apply for funding towards events/activities that will encourage women to cycle and make journeys by bike. 
Comic Relief with Paul Hamlyn Foundation has launched another UK Tech for Good funding programme. This will fund up to 12 digital projects each with grants of up to £47,000. Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation are inviting proposals to develop or scale web, mobile or internet based technologies which deliver new or improved services to beneficiaries. 
Have you got a ridiculously exciting idea for a project that brings people together through activities that help connect their community and celebrate UK native wild flowers, plants and/or fungi? 
Volunteers in Manchester, led by poet Lemn Sissay, are fundraising to provide a Christmas Dinner for 50 local Care Leavers, and they need the support of the local community to make it happen. 
For many Care Leavers in the UK, Christmas can be a difficult time, a day spent alone in a bedsit or hostel, feeling isolated and with nowhere else to go.
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