Sector News

The Our Manchester Voluntary and Community Sector (OMVCS) was co-designed with the VCFSE sector and launched in 2017. It invests in VCFSE organisations to help achieve the priorities of the Our Manchester Strategy,  funding core and activity costs over three years.

Share your experience and help build inclusive volunteering in sport for sanctuary seekers.

Manchester City of Sanctuary is carrying out a feasibility study to explore how sanctuary seekers (refugees and asylum seekers) can be better supported to volunteer in sports, physical activity, and movement.

About the role

Macc is a charity and put simply, our purpose is the city of Manchester. We work to inspire, enable and support the people of Manchester to get involved and build the communities where we live, work and grow.

Our Collaboration Team help create practical action through partnership working, both within the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector (we call it VCSE) and through action-focused projects with local public bodies and the private sector.

About Us

Macc is Manchester’s support organisation for the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. We are committed to empowering communities and supporting over 160,000 volunteers across the city who contribute their time, skills, and energy to making a real difference.

ACEVO and Voice4Change England hosted the Home Truths 2, Race Equity Series. The series stimulated and supported meaningful anti-racist responses to civil society's ongoing racism problem.

The Race Equity Series is open to all in civil society:

Telling the right story on climate change is an essential part of driving the action that our world desperately needs. Are you struggling to get your climate message heard? Communicating Climate is here to help.

Now in its fifth year, this free six-month strategic communications programme is designed for UK-based charities and grassroots organisations working on climate justice, advocacy and community action.

Charities and not-for-profit organisations are very vulnerable to cyber attacks for multiple reasons. The Government's Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024 found that a third of all charities had experienced a cyber security breach or attack in the previous 12 months. The Cyber Resilience Centre for the North West has produced advice for charities to stay protected against cyber attackers.

Read the guidance here
 

Manchester Active is teaming up with GM Moving to promote the Greater Manchester Walking Festival 2025, which takes place through all of May. The festival celebrates the joys and many benefits of walking and wheeling – including for people’s health and wellbeing.

They would love your fantastic walks to be included in the festival, Manchester had an amazing 70 walks in last year’s festival.

BHA for equality have developed different resources in multiple languages on health, sexual health and wellbeing for individuals and professionals supporting them. The resources include a wealth of informative and engaging content, including videos, toolkits, and reports. These materials cover a wide range of topics related to health, from infectious diseases to health conditions to mental health. Our aim is to provide a set of resources that addresses the unique challenges faced by people of colour in the UK and beyond.

The GM VCFSE Leadership Group have published a new paper on the role of the VCFSE sector in Greater Manchester for colleagues in the public sector to help them understand the potential role/s that our sector could have in delivering the commitments and outcomes of the Greater Manchester strategy.

It’s also a chance for public sector officers to find out how to building relationships with the VCFSE sector.

Read it here