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Community Integration Awards

4 Aug 2017 - 10:50 by michelle.foster

The Community Integration Awards reward best practice in community integration and cohesion across the UK. Community Immigration Awards

The MigrationWork Trust wants to influence the immigration debate by highlighting positive examples of people doing vital work in their communities which has allowed migrants, refugees, and host communities to flourish.

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BBC Programme Community Spirit Request

4 Aug 2017 - 10:36 by michelle.foster

Do you know an inspirational organisation at the heart of a community?

Somewhere that provides assistance to deserving children and their families?

The BBC are on the hunt for an amazing group of people for an exciting new factual programme.

The BBC are particularly interested in places which provide hot meals for the community – this could be a community centre serving children and families. Alternatively, this could be somewhere that supports children with disabilities.

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Funding bulletin August 2017

1 Aug 2017 - 10:52 by michelle.foster

Information for the bulletin is compiled from a number of sources including Grantfinder, GMCVO (Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Organisations) and direct from funders themselves. It showcases just a few of the hundreds of funding opportunities available for local community, voluntary and faith organisations.Macc

This bulletin is produced by a partnership of local support and development agencies across Greater Manchester.

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Comic Relief – Active ageing: creating change in communities grants

28 Jul 2017 - 09:56 by michelle.foster

Comic Relief have launched a £1.5 million fund to engage older people aged 65 and over from ‘harder to reach’ groups to get involved in opportunities which use their skills, knowledge and experience to contribute to their communities. Comic Relief are looking for proposals which put older people at the centre of the work, designing and developing activities or opportunities which meet their needs, interests and priorities. Comic Relief

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The Dream Fund – stage one deadline 22 August 2017

28 Jul 2017 - 09:53 by michelle.foster

The Dream Fund was created to encourage charities to collaborate and apply for their dream project, the project they have always wanted to deliver but never had the opportunity to do so. Dream Fund

The Dream Fund supports charities to develop innovative solutions to society’s most challenging problems. Applications that can score highly in their originality, ambition and collaborative nature stand the highest chances of being successful.

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Getting It Right: What Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Young People in Greater Manchester Want and Need

28 Jul 2017 - 09:50 by michelle.foster

Manchester charities The Proud Trust, Albert Kennedy Trust, 42nd Street and LGBT Foundation are proud to launch their Greater Manchester research ‘Getting it Right: what young LGBT people want and need’.

All organisations and professionals who work with children and young people need to know more about LGBT young people in order to be able to do their job well.

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Voice of the child literature review

28 Jul 2017 - 09:38 by michelle.foster

As momentum gathers around integrated health and social care and children’s health and wellbeing, there are various calls for evidence around the voice of children and young people.

42nd Street with Youth Focus NW and Young Minds are aware of an awful lot of great work that has taken place over recent years to capture this voice and they are trying to gather this into one place and make some central sense of it to inform, amongst other things the GM commissioning framework for CAMHS and a broader charter around children and young people’s health and social care.

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Trustees (voluntary) at Oldham Coliseum Theatre

28 Jul 2017 - 09:37 by michelle.foster

Oldham Coliseum Theatre are recruiting for new trustees to join them at this exciting time of major change.

The role of trustee is a voluntary position and requires dedication to the Theatre’s development, ensuring that the Company fulfils its charitable purpose for the public benefit. All trustees are ambassadors for the Theatre’s work and community.

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2017 Clinks State of the Sector survey report

25 Jul 2017 - 10:03 by helen.walker

Clinks is a national charity that supports, represents and campaigns for the voluntary sector working with offenders. They have published their 2017 State of the Sector report following a survey of voluntary sector organisations to collect information about how healthy the sector is, the role it is playing, and the wellbeing of service users.Clinks found that "During a year of political instability, voluntary organisations continue to support the most vulnerable people despite a shifting funding landscape and increasing and changing service user needs.

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