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This bulletin is produced by a partnership of local support and development agencies across Greater Manchester.
The Aviva Community Fund offers you the chance to get funding for causes important to your community. 
It’s open to everyone, whether you have a connection with Aviva or not. Aviva wants you to enter a project for your community and tell them what a difference these funds could make.
Enterprise Grants will support charities and social enterprises in England working in either the homelessness or youth sector to develop or grow their enterprising activity and earned income. 
Initially the programme will be aimed at charities and social enterprises based in England that operate in the following fields:
• Homelessness
• Youth services
The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. 
Across the prison population including men, women and youth at least 1 in 2 prisoners released will re-offend within a year. Offenders need information to make the right decisions about their lives in the community: where they will live; how they will gain a legitimate income; how they will rebuild their family ties, or form new ones. They should also be helped to find support for mental health needs and substance misuse.
The Digital Inclusion Fund aims to support initiatives designing, researching or delivering digital inclusion programmes with a focus on older and/or disabled people, in a new, creative and innovative way. It aims to improve essential digital skills and demonstrate how digital inclusion can improve the lives and well being, of older and/or disabled people. The initiatives supported may also have scope to scale up and deliver a wider impact. Funding could be used to test and learn from the new approaches to tackling digital exclusion.
The FSI are running training for small charities on 4 October with courses from £7.50, at Methodist Central Buildings. Training sessions cover a wide range of fundraising techniques and back office skills delivered by experienced and knowledgeable trainers and include Developing Your Fundraising Strategy; Legacy Fundraising; Budgets, Management Accounts, and Cash Flow Forecasting; and Trustee Role in Risk Management. 
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust currently have an array of furniture and pallets at their Prestwich site that are available for donation to local community offices, projects or workshops.
Available are wave office desks, pedestals, meeting chairs and pallets for any community upcycling projects. There are also broken furniture that parts could be extracted off to make something new with.
Interest community groups should arrange to view the items at the site in Prestwich, unfortunately items aren’t able to be delivered.
Over £1 million will be available for initiatives which will help boost the digital skills of underrepresented groups and disabled people. 
Manchester City Council are seeking a partner or partners to design and develop new approaches to tackling inactivity in North Manchester as part of the Winning Hearts and Minds Programme. 
The partnership delivering the Winning Hearts and Minds programme (WHM) includes Manchester Health and Care Commissioning, Manchester City Council and Eastlands Trust.
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