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Local Partnership Working

Voluntary Sector North West and Compact Voice are assessing the current state of the sector’s relationship with local public sector partners and LEPs: who’s working well with the sector and who’s not? Where is support required? How is the sector engaged in emerging devolution discussions (e.g. via Combined Authorities and local Devolution deal leads)

To complete the survey, visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VNPMKVW

Deadline for responses: 21 August 2015

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Policy and Influence

Fourteen Awards for organisations in Harpurhey and Moston

Fourteen is a programme funded by Spirit of 2012, a charity set up by the Big Lottery Fund to connect events to communities across the country; tackling disadvantage by supporting opportunities in sport, physical activity, culture and the arts, volunteering and social action.

Forever Manchester is managing the Fourteen programme in Manchester, where it will support the communities of Harpurhey and Moston.

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Capacity Building

Funding

Southway Community Celebration and Volunteer Fair

Last year Southway Housing Trust organised their first Volunteer Fair, which was a great success with almost fifty organisations attending to promote their volunteering opportunities. This time they want to make it even bigger and celebrate everything that is being delivered by volunteers and voluntary and community sector organisations within the Southway area.

Southway Housing Trust are sponsoring the Volunteer Involving Organisation of the Year Award at this year’s Spirit of Manchester Awards and will be making this event part of the Spirit of Manchester Festival.

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Volunteering

Applications open for Youth Social Action Fund

Organisations working with young people can apply for funding through the Youth Social Action Fund.

Organisations working with young people in lower socioeconomic areas in England can apply for funding through the new Youth Social Action Fund.

The Fund received £1 million from the Cabinet Office, as part of the government’s pledge to support Step Up To Serve’s #iwill campaign. The #iwill campaign aims to increase participation in youth social action (volunteering, fundraising and campaigning) by 50% by 2020.

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Review of Wheelchair Services in Manchester

NHS North, Central and South Manchester CCGs would like to understand your experiences of using wheelchair services in Manchester. If you have used wheelchair services in the past three years, they would like to hear from you.

To complete the survey, visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2XWQT6T

People who live in the Manchester or Trafford area are being asked to share their experiences of using wheelchair services, what works well and what could be improved.

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Physical Disability

Exciting new opportunity for budding young activists

RECLAIM Project is a Manchester based youth leadership and social change charity who are now expanding our activism strand into the AGMA regions. The new Powerhouse Pioneers project looks to recruit two working class young people aged 14-20 per borough, who will unite as a cohort to amplify the voices of Greater Manchester’s young people.

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Young People

Southern Voices World War One project wins Heritage Lottery Fund support

Southern Voices (Manchester) has received £60,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, ‘Out of the Shadows: 1914-18 Perspectives of Colonised People’ based in Manchester.

The project will explore the role and experiences of the colonised peoples of the British West Indies, Nigeria, India, German and British East Africa during the First World War.

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Arts & culture

Manchester Volunteer Advice Project are interested in hearing about what you would like from volunteering

Manchester Volunteer Advice Project (MVAP) is a volunteering project that offers volunteers placements in a range of advice roles.

MVAP are interested in hearing about what you would like from volunteering to help with a funding bid that, if successful, will fund further volunteering opportunities in Manchester.

To complete the survey visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/mvapvol2015, by Friday 7 August 2015

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Volunteering

Grants available for Inter Faith Week 2015

Inter Faith Youth Trust will be awarding small grants up to £500 for organisations running events or projects connected with Inter Faith Week 2015. This small grants programme is for events organised by and for young people focused around Inter Faith Week 15-21 November 2015.

Grants are awarded for proposals for inter-faith activities by children and young people from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and other faiths and those of no formal faith in understanding and co-operation. The age range for young people is 11-25 years.

Priority will be given to projects which:

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Out of hours support provision for residents suffering mental health problems

Following the overwhelming success of its existing all night mental health crisis services, The Sanctuary has been commissioned to provide 24 hour mental health crisis support to residents across Manchester - including Salford, Trafford, Tameside and Glossop.

The Sanctuary 24 hour mental health crisis line will launch in August 2015.

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Mental Health