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Pilotlight is a national charity supporting small to medium charities and social enterprises to become bigger, better or more sustainable.
From next year, a million pounds of Council funding is going into Young Manchester, the new independent youth and play trust. Do you think your organisation should have a share and, just as importantly, a say in how things are organised in future?
Currently the Council has 60 contracts with the youth and play sector. In future, it looks like the Trust is planning for 15 or less.
What do you do with a broken lamp, toaster or chair? Toss it? No way! Stitched Up are bringing repair BACK, by launching Manchester’s First Repair Cafe.
A Repair Cafe is a free community event where people get together to mend broken things. Run by volunteers, it aims to reduce waste but also to pass on important skills and provide
a space for people to get to know their neighbours.
The idea behind the Grassroots Giving campaign is to help community organisations, or groups, who only have access to limited funding from elsewhere. Submissions are welcome from community groups of all shapes and sizes - Skipton Building Society are looking to 
support smaller groups who struggle to find funding elsewhere and will not fund registered charities.
In 2016/17 the Money Advice Service (MAS) aims to contribute up to £7m to fund and evaluate programmes and pilots across the UK to deepen their understanding of what types of interventions can make a real difference to people's financial capability.
The Charity Commission said that Charity fundraising: a guide to trustee duties (CC20), which calls for trustees to ensure that fundraising reflects their charity's values, was part of its response to some of the high-profile problems identified with fundraising practices over the past year. 
What charities and their trustees need to consider when fundraising from the public.
Based on interviews with UK crowdfunding platforms and a survey of more than 450 charities, community groups and social entrepreneurs, this report, created in partnership with NCVO, explores opportunities and challenges in crowdfunding for good causes.
LGBT Foundation are recruiting for new Trustees to join their board. LGBT Foundation are seeking highly skilled and senior managers across all sectors who can bring influence, professional knowledge and experience to the organisation in the following areas:
• Health/with an NHS Background
• Research, Insight and Policy
• Legal/Governance/with Company Secretary background
• Commercial expertise and background
Manchester City Council wants to make sure local pharmacies provide the services you need, to do this they need to know how people use them. Manchester City Council have divided the survey into question about your ‘local pharmacy’, 
which could be your local chemist, high street pharmacy, large store chemists or supermarket pharmacies, but not the hospital pharmacy, and your ‘regular pharmacy’ the one you use most of the time.
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