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Further to the successful delivery of the Rethinking Radicalisation and Radical Dialogue programmes, Manchester has been working with communities to develop a new and exciting community resilience campaign and grant funding programme called RADEQUAL. 
From October 2016 Comic Relief, with Paul Hamlyn Foundation, is launching another UK Tech for Good funding programme. This will fund 10 digital projects each with up to £46,500, plus £3,500 to enable access to expert support. 
Do you have a bright idea for a community business? Need a bit of help developing it and making it a reality? Then this is the fund for you. Bright Ideas will provide business development support, award grants of up to £20,000, and opportunities to visit other community businesses. 
Buzz Manchester Health and Wellbeing Service are accepting referrals from those who want support and encouragement to improve their Health and Wellbeing.
Buzz Manchester Health and Wellbeing Service can support with: 
• Healthy eating and exercise
• Smoking and alcohol
• Isolation and loneliness and friendship
• Promoting positive mental health
• Dental health
The service can also make referrals to a range of other services.
Are you passionate about eliminating the stigma associated with being involved in the Criminal Justice System and experienced by offenders’ families, offenders and their children? Can you see that by reducing such stigma and working alongside our partner agencies and those with lived experience, we can improve outcomes for families and the communities they live in? If so, Could you be a POPS’ Trustee? 
Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS) intend to set up more support groups to support those who have lost someone to suicide.
SOBS exists to break the isolation of those who have lost a loved one to suicide. 
Suicide is not just the loss of one precious life. It's the loss of that life that often devastates many other lives.
The last day of Spirit Story week saw ten final stories.
Fareshare Greater Manchester - 4.49 Tonnes of Food
“I would struggle financially and turn to crime in order to get food”. Eric was referred to one of the organisations Fareshare delivers to, Mustard Tree, after moving from homelessness into his first tenancy. He likes everything about the Food Club he is a part of and is glad it is here.
This was a busy day with eight stories:
Manchester Deaf Centre - "I feel like I belong to a community"
The DAVE (Deaf, Actively, Volunteering, Experience) project helps 35 young people (aged 16-25), with a wide range of hearing defects, to manage the transition from education to whatever they want to do next.
Seven stories were told on Wednesday 21 September:
Sow the City - making Manchester full of beans!
Sow the City is a social enterprise on a mission. It wants to take vacant and derelict bits of Manchester and turn each one into a green oasis, where members of the community are supported to design a garden to grow their own fruit and vegetables. They have already worked with over 80 community groups in Manchester to do this, and today was a step closer to starting work on a new site.
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