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EnglishArabicBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIgboItalianJapaneseKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)LatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalayMalteseNepaliNorwegianPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSudaneseSwahiliSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelshYorubaAn exciting agenda has been announced for this year’s Greater Manchester Cancer Conference.
Speakers will include Dame Cally Palmer, National Cancer Director for NHS England, Dr Manisha Kumar, Chief Medical Officer for NHS Greater Manchester, and Rob Bellingham Director of Primary Care and Strategic Commissioning, NHS Greater Manchester.
Join us for our in-person Community Explorers event! Network with other VCSE organisations and public sector colleagues, while also hearing from different speakers from across Manchester.
The event will be themed around mental health and wellbeing of individuals in working in VCSE organisations. More details to follow once the agenda and speakers for the event have been finalised.
There will also be plenty of time for networking, and an opportunity to share offers from your organisations with a stall for flyers and spaces for discussion.
Would you like to help play a part in increasing early cancer diagnosis rates in underserved communities in Greater Manchester?
The Cancer and Inequalities fund is offering grants of up to £5,000 for Greater Manchester-based VCSE organisations to deliver projects that will raise awareness of the early signs and symptoms of cancer and identify and understand the barriers people face when receiving a cancer diagnosis.
As part of Greater Manchester Collaboration Week you can join two Research Engagement Network (REN) programme events to address the lack of representation and systemic barriers to participating in health and care research across Greater Manchester. 
The Youth-Led Creativity programme builds on young people's power to make change, use creativity to enhance their lives, develop their careers, and influence the world around them.
The funding is focused on work led by and for young people (aged 14 to 30) who have less access to creative programmes or who are underrepresented in arts and culture. 
This includes young people who:
Do you work with children and/or adults at risk in Manchester?
Manchester Safeguarding Partnership is currently conducting a workforce survey and is keen to hear from frontline staff and operational managers across statutory and wider partners who work with children and/or adults at risk in Manchester. This is an opportunity for staff to have their say on safeguarding in Manchester.
Do you facilitate peer support? Would you like to be part of discussions and activities that will support both your group and others across Greater Manchester?
This free and informative workshop will help you to find and share creative ways to communicate, manage relationships and look after your wellbeing as a peer support facilitator. 
Lips Inked Arts CIC is a community arts organisation that provides inspiring opportunities to underserved neighbourhoods across Manchester. Lips Inked Arts CIC empower communities through creativity, delivering projects which bring people together, reduce loneliness and isolation, and allow people to freely access high quality cultural activities. 
Open Kitchen are offering a new range of healthy, affordable, easy and sustainable cooking demo and discussion workshops for communities. The sessions focus on recipes that are healthy, cheap for ingredients, cheap for energy, and adaptable to use whatever ingredients can be accessed. Courses are unfortunately not free (but Open Kitchen are applying for funding so watch this space). 
It's ok to be vulnerable - A 1-hour webinar to highlight some strategies to help maintain resilience and wellbeing and provide a brief overview of the impact of working in the face of loss, death and grief.
Kindly sponsored by GSK.
You will:
• Increase your understanding of the potential impact of working with loss, death and grief.
• Appreciate how experiences can affect you, both personally and professionally.
• Consider ways in which you can maintain your resilience and wellbeing.
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