Sector News

The Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership have developed the Get To Know Where To Go campaign, which includes messaging to encourage everyone to know their local pharmacy opening times, be prepared for common illnesses with over-the-counter medicines, order their repeat prescriptions ahead of time and know the appropriate urgent care services including emergency hotlines – be that dental, eyecare or mental wellbeing.

This is an opportunity to share your opinions, experiences - and support needs with CAST. The survey is anonymous and should take 12-minutes to complete survey. The response will help CAST to understand your experiences of AI, and the support you need. After the survey closes in February 2025, CAST will use the results to formulate some practical support activities, as well as to help influence wider sector response.

Complete the survey here 
 

Ensuring your offer of support is sustainable begins with ensuring that families have the tools to ensure their family relationships remain or become positive.

When you or family members highlight the need for an improvement in household relationships, you can share some simple electronic resources with them. The objective being to empower Manchester families to maintain or bring about improved family relationships.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have developed a resource in partnership with VCFSE organisations supporting people seeking asylum in Greater Manchester, which aims to provide information about the options available to people who have received a negative asylum decision. GMCA felt that there was a lack of clear information available to people and hope this this resource will be helpful for people who have been refused asylum, and for the people supporting them in Greater Manchester.

The effects of bullying and bad manners are destroying children's lives and society. I am going far with miles PR CIC are seeking responses to their survey to give them insight which will help them to provide support.

Complete the survey here by 31st December, 11.45pm.

For more information visit: https://iamgoingfar.com/ 
 

GM Mature Minds Matter are looking for people who have lived experience of accessing, or supporting someone who has accessed, mental health support in mid to later life (50+), to join our growing network, to make a difference to mental health support across Greater Manchester!

To learn more, email us at GMOPN@macc.org.uk, call us on 0161 834 9823 or visit our website: https://www.gmopn.org.uk/gm-older-peoples-mental-health-network 

Are you involved in the delivery of services to victims of crime? 

Do you support prisoners, prison leavers, people on probation? 

Are the families of victims or perpetrators a group you support? 

Do you support those in or on the edge of the criminal justice system? 

If you answered YES to any of these questions then you should join the brand new Greater Manchester Victims and Justice Group, part of the GM VCFSE Leadership Group.

Manchester University MBA students are conducting fascinating research into the impact on raising awareness of male sexual violence. They are working to refine messaging around male sexual violence, improve response delivery, and uncover trends in client engagement data that is often hidden. Currently they are focusing on understanding public awareness of sexual harm affecting men in Greater Manchester and the familiarity with the support offered by We Are Survivors.

To do this, they’ve created a simple, voluntary survey that collects no personal information.

In the sixth episode of Season 9 of the Meet the Mancunian podcast, Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe interviews Shelley Roberts, CEO of Home-Start Manchester, an award-winning volunteer involving organisation. Shelley discusses her lifelong passion for supporting children, the impactful work of Home-Start in providing peer support for families with young children, and the challenges and successes they've faced. 

Back by popular demand, easyfundraising’s Advent Calendar returns to bring some festive cheer. Open the Advent windows from 1st – 24th December for daily chances to win up to £200 for your organisation, charity, or CIC. Plus every window opened is also an automatic entry to win £1000 on Christmas Day!

Three steps to a festive season yule won’t forget: