Co-operative Foundation call for new partners to help tackle youth loneliness
The Co-operative Foundation is looking for up to 5 new partners to help them tackle loneliness among disadvantaged young people.
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Team Future - Voices and Ambassadors
RECLAIM, a youth leadership and social change organisation that supports working class young people across Greater Manchester to end leadership inequality have a new campaign lead by their young people.
“Team Future is one of the most exciting and inspirational new movements in Britain today. If the UK has a future, it lies with young working class people organising and making their voices heard.” Owen Jones 
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Greater Manchester Youth Network Great Manchester Run - places available
Fancy a challenge in 2017 whilst also helping Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN) support disadvantaged young people? 
Join Team GMYN and take part in either the Great Manchester 10k or Half Marathon run, on Sunday 28 May 2017 in Manchester City Centre.
There are two ways to get yourself signed up:
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Short Breaks for Children and Young People with a Disability Manchester City Council approved providers list
Manchester City Council is seeking to have a number of providers on an Approved list who can deliver a range of different options for short break services to children and young people with a disability. 
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Call for interest: Celebration of Innovation 2017 - Resources for Manchester's Youth Sector
Now in its third year the Celebration of Innovation event recognises the vast array of knowledge and skills that Manchester's Youth Sector offers and brings together resources designed 
to aid work with young people and organisational productivity. The event aims to be a participatory experience with attendees having the opportunity to learn about a host of different resources whilst also workshopping emerging ones.
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Young Carers Awareness Day
Young Carers Awareness Day is on 26 January 2017. This day is aimed at recognising the hard work young carers do and how caring for their sick brother, disabled mother, dad, sister or friend can have a huge impact in their lives There are about 700.000 young carers in UK who without proper support, would not cope. 
This year's theme is 'When I grow up' and it's all about helping young carers to achieve their dream jobs or career.
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Evaluation of Next Gen Youth
The Next Gen Youth (NGY) project was run by Unity Radio. It worked with 23 young people over a year to enable them to produce a series of 2hr radio shows focused on child and sexual exploitation (CSE). Among the benefits for the participants were: a dramatic reduction in missing from home and care incidents; increased confidence and self-belief; and improved social networks. Listeners to the show gained: improved knowldege of issues surrounding CSE; and creation of discussion and debate amongst listeners of all ages.
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Update on Young Manchester
As many of you will be aware, Young Manchester is a new charity focused on supporting Youth and Play Services in the city. Young Manchester’s mission is to help improve the life chances of children and young people by giving them access to high-quality, inclusive opportunities.
Over the past six months Young Manchester have developed a strong Board of Trustees comprising highly experienced and committed leaders from across the voluntary and community, private and public sectors.
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Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner’s Youth Aspiration Fund
The Police and Crime Commissioner has made a commitment to provide appropriate schemes for children and young people from age 8 years to 25 years with a target range of 11 years to 18 years (flexibility will be permitted on the age range if a specified need is defined) who are identified as being at risk of offending, risky behaviour, vulnerable to exploitation and harm, have complex 
needs, live in a family or community which is vulnerable to exploitation a
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Complete our important State of the Sector Survey
We have extended the deadline to complete our State of the Sector survey to 18 December 2016.
We would like to encourage your organisation to complete our important survey as we want to know how the government cuts and economic recession have affected our sector. We need to know how many groups have lost funding, how many have had to reduce services and how many have had to close or are facing closure. But also how we continue to work together providing valuable services and support to the people of Manchester.
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