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Heineken, the UK’s leading brewer, is launching a new community initiative that will see its 270 Manchester Brewery colleagues get involved in kick-starting and reinvigorating local projects within Moss Side.

This new initiative, that will allow Heineken to play a more active part in local life, has been created in conjunction with social enterprise Your Square Mile, a UK-wide organisation that offers practical support to help people make positive change in their communities.

The Big Dig is a nationwide project which aims to engage over 10,000 people in Community Food-Growing Projects across England.

Do you have a Community Garden or Group Allotment?

A green space at your School, Youth Club, Church or Mosque that you want to reclaim and develop?

Does your Community want to create such a growing space?

In Greater Manchester Big Dig is run by The Kindling Trust.

North West Together We Can, supported by Our Life, has launched a new Community Empowerment Award to reward best practice in communities around empowerment, cohesion and resilience that has taken place over the last 12 months in the North West.

Do you know of any community and voluntary groups that have delivered a project that has made a positive difference in their community and which you think should be recognised for their achievements? Nominations can be made using the attached nomination form.

Throughout 2012, Manchester Libraries have been celebrating "Dickens at 200" with a series of events and promotional initiatives, culminating in their involvement in the Manchester Literary Festivals "Dickens Day" in October.

To bring to a close the celebration of Dickens at 200 the Manchester Library and Information Service would like budding writers everywhere to complete a ghost story.

The competition is open to entrants aged 16 and over and winning entries will receive a Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection DVD Set.