Sector News

The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity makes grants to UK registered charities, for work in the UK and overseas. Projects in the UK should fall into the following categories: Medical research and care; Social welfare; Homelessness; Hospices; Mental health/counselling; Drug and alcohol therapeutic support; Offender support; Community regeneration; and Vulnerable families, women and children.

Would you like to join Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN trustee board?

GMYN is an exciting youth charity that is proudly delivering a number of innovative programmes to support disadvantaged young people across Greater Manchester. The organisation is governed by a board of trustees with various backgrounds and skills and GMYN would like to expand their board to help the organisation develop further.

Monday 16 October marks the start of this year’s National Adoption Week. Outstanding Independent Adoption Agency Caritas Care is looking for families in the Lancashire and Greater Manchester areas for children who wait longer to find their forever home. They are particularly keen to speak to people who would consider adoption for children who:
• Are over 4 years of age
• Are in a sibling group of 2,3…or 4
• Are from the BAME community

The See More, Learn More, Go Further Project is a Greater Manchester initiative led by the NHS aimed at encouraging children to have regular eye sight tests as currently only 1 in 5 children have had their eyes tested.

Come and join friendly residents for fun, fitness and friendship. Together Dementia Support will be offering a range of activities aimed at keeping you physically and mentally active on Wednesdays 1.30pm-3.30pm at Auden Court off Toledo St, Clayton, M11 4WD.

Transport can be provided if you live within 3 miles of Auden Court.

Out to Lunch with Silver Seniors is a new weekly radio show on Wythenshawe FM 97.2, launching on Monday 30 October. It will be on from 12pm to 2pm.

The show will include interviews with helpful agencies and groups, feature community centres, nursing homes, care homes, and a sing-a- long spot.

Join Roz Johnson by tuning in to FM 97.2, or you can listen live online.

In the latest Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA) newsletter they comment on our economy and ask if Greater Manchester could take the lead in a more human-centred economy; GMPA look at loneliness among disabled people and share information about Breakthrough’s ‘Let’s have a good week’ project; GMPA feature the story and the thoughts of one of the Salford Poverty Truth Commissioners and there is the regular Living Wage column.

Garfield Weston Foundation would like to invite you to take part in this short survey of charity leaders for the Weston Charity Awards - run by the Garfield Weston Foundation and Pilotlight. Your answers will help them to gauge and respond to attitudes in the sector towards leadership development and strategic planning.

NHS England’s ‘celebrating participation in healthcare’ community grants scheme is open for applications for the third year. Grants of up to £2000 are available to voluntary/community organisations to showcase how they have been involving patients, service-users and the public in improving health services. 

To apply you must be a voluntary or community organisation and be able to share your project successes in a creative way.