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The Co-op Foundation are offering interest-free loans for enterprising ideas to improve community spaces. 
Places and spaces for people to come together and enjoy shared interests are vitally important for building stronger communities.
Venues such as parks and community centres need regular income so they can continue to meet the needs of people who use them, love them, and rely on them for local services and social contact.
Are you a community with a bright idea for a business that could transform your local area? 
The Bright Ideas Fund supports new community business ideas through the start up and planning stages with tailored business support, to the implementation stage with grants of up to £15,000.
This briefing is by the Community Development Practice Working Group, an informal group of skilled community development workers who are seeking to improve knowledge, understanding and practice of community development. The briefing begins with a short overview of the linkages between community development work practice and some key Manchester strategies. It then describes what community development work practice is and illustrates through a number of case studies.
Applications are now open for micro-grants of up to £500 for installations to support their Remembrance Day activities for the centenary of the First World War. 
This programme will allow communities to remember and commemorate by accessing silhouettes for benches and chairs free of charge thanks to the support of the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.
The Manchester Safeguarding Boards (MSB) comprises the Manchester Safeguarding Adults Board (MSAB) and the Manchester Safeguarding Children Boards (MSCB). The Boards share an Independent Chair, Julia Stephens-Row; and are supported by the MSB Business Unit. 
Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project is currently looking to let their Annexe space in their Centre on a part or full time basis. This is a large open space approximately 28ft x 30ft with its own separate kitchen area, a small office and storage room. It also has one accessible toilet.
The Annexe space has its own entrance and has 24 hour access. The entrance leads from a small garden which also has an entrance to a Café area offering meals at lunchtime Monday – Friday.
As part of an MSc dissertation, Lee Smorthit is looking for participants - marketing managers within the charity sector - to engage in an interview with.
Lee is primarily seeking to understand the role of digital marketing in the industry and the ways charities understand measurement specifically. The interview will look at themes such as impact factors, measurement tools used, motivations and the types of metrics that one employs. The optimal outcome will be a set of recommendations that can be adopted and implemented in order to address any prevailing issues within the sector.
Information for the bulletin is compiled from a number of sources including Grantfinder, GMCVO (Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Organisations) and direct from funders themselves. It showcases just a few of the hundreds of funding opportunities available for local community, voluntary and faith organisations. 
This bulletin is produced by a partnership of local support and development agencies across Greater Manchester.
The Woodward Charitable Trust primarily funds charitable organisations in the UK. If Woodward funds overseas projects it is usually via UK charities which can ensure that funds are being well used. Woodward favours charities which make good use of volunteers and encourage past and current users to participate. 
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