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Lagan’s 9th Annual Cycle Challenge

4 Apr 2024 - 11:49 by michelle.foster

Join cyclists from across the UK to compete in this year’s Cycle Challenge on Sunday 28 April 2024 where you can expect, challenging inclines, 3 routes available, fantastic views across North Wales, Cheshire and Blackpool. Riders provided with chip timer to track their exact finish time. Don’t miss out on the chance to challenge yourself, whilst raising money for an important cause.

There will be marshals along all routes and signs at every mile. If you’re a cycling enthusiast, this event is not to be missed.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

Voting in the upcoming elections

3 Apr 2024 - 15:16 by michelle.foster

Local and GMCA Mayoral elections are taking place in Manchester on 2 May.

Promotional materials are available to help inform voters about recent changes.

If you’d like to vote a polling station, you’ll need photo ID. If you don’t have photo ID you can apply for free voter ID here

You can find out what ID is accepted here

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Policy and Influence

Tesco Stronger Starts – Footie for All Fund

26 Mar 2024 - 15:09 by michelle.foster

Tesco and the newspaper, The Sun, have joined together for a second year to provide a total of £150,000 to encourage more children and young people to take up football or improve access to the game.

The grants are part of The Sun’s Footie for All campaign to highlight how financial struggles are forcing young people to give up football.

The funding is designed to provide support to grassroots football organisations working with children under the age of 18 to enable them to continue to deliver activities that allow local young people to take part.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding

Greater Manchester Resident Survey headlines

26 Mar 2024 - 15:07 by michelle.foster

Read the headline results from the latest Greater Manchester Residents survey (wave 11) produced by GMCA. Findings are based on fieldwork with c1,500 residents from across all ten districts, undertaken 29 January to 13 February. They cover cost of living, housing, transport and local areas.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Policy and Influence

Manchester Volunteer Drivers’ Network

20 Mar 2024 - 14:28 by michelle.foster

The Volunteer Drivers’ Network is an initiative led by Macc to connect organisations across Manchester with individuals who are able to drive and can support with community tasks. Community tasks could involve delivering food packages, transporting a service user or picking up donations, as well as many other tasks which would involve an individual needing to drive.

Manchester volunteer driver's network

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Volunteering

Grant funding for social businesses providing cost of living support

20 Mar 2024 - 14:20 by michelle.foster

GMCVO are offering grants between £1,000 and £10,000 to social enterprises and trading charities who provide services to people and communities that are experiencing acute cost of living pressures.

Funded by Access – The Foundation for Social Investment, the grants aim to sustain the provision of essential community services and boost the sustainability of grantee organisations. The grants will be accompanied by enterprising activity support delivered by GMCVO.

Apply here

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding

Call for evidence about the priorities of people with lived experience of poverty in the UK

20 Mar 2024 - 14:19 by michelle.foster

Have you been involved in, or are you aware of UK-based work between 2008 and 2024 that enabled those affected by the economic injustice of poverty to articulate the issues that they face and what they feel are the most important things to invest in?

GMCVO and Greater Manchester Poverty Action have been funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to conduct an evidence review that collates and themes issues that are repeatedly deemed to be important to address.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Poverty

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