Are you a community that is interested in the link between fathers' and children's well-being? Are you interested in trying out a new fully-funded approach to overcoming serious and multiple disadvantage, using the strengths in your community? - Then why not apply for your community to become Unlimited Potential project partner? 
This is a free briefing event open to all communities in Greater Manchester (outside Salford) to see if you want to help Unlimited Potential expand their work with fathers and children facing disadvantage. Unlimited Potential are using an approach that builds on fathers' own strengths and solutions.
The aim of the work is for fathers themselves to find their own successful solutions to improve their well-being and then to see if this also improves the well-being of their children. The approach is for fathers to 'act yourself into a new way of thinking'.
Unlimited Potential (a successful social enterprise in Salford) has a unique opportunity to expand their groundbreaking work to a third community. Unlimited Potential started their work in Little Hulton, Salford, in 2013, where fathers set up a constituted group called Salford Dadz - Little Hulton, which is still running successfully and independently. Unlimited Potential then started working in Winton, Salford, in January 2016. Here the project is called Dadly Does It.
Unlimited Potential have been given two years' funding by the Lankelly Chase Foundation, to expand beyond their roots in Salford in order to test out their approach to improving the well-being of fathers in a community in Greater Manchester outside Salford.
Unlimited Potential are looking for a community that has a passion for tacking inequalities faced by their community to partner with them to further test the approach they are using. This is no small challenge and they want to hear from local people that understand the strengths of their community and are able to think and work creatively. Unlimited Potential are more interested in communities who understand what we are trying to do and not just those who are most experienced in pitching to them.
You should also be willing to fully engage in the external evaluation, which is being led by the Centre for Men's Health at Leeds Beckett University. Unlimited Potential work mostly 'arms length' with the university and we don't do a lot of tick box stuff that puts communities off.
At this briefing event on Thursday 29 September 2016, 9.30 - 12:00 at Salford Innovation Forum - 51 Frederick Road, Salford, M6 6FP, Unlimited Potential will introduce themselves and their work so far, explain their approach, explain their offer, outline how interested communities in Greater Manchester (outside Salford) can apply to become a partner, with a view to starting work in January 2017 for 2 years.
For further information and to register, visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dadly-does-it-briefing-event-tickets-27349945423, or contact Heather Henry, on 0794 179 0670, or email: [email protected]