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Compact Awards 2015

The Compact Awards celebrate and showcase outstanding Compact working across England.

Award winners will be chosen from groups, individuals, organisations and activities that demonstrate the very best of cross-sector partnership working.

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Policy and Influence

New Housing Project for Military Veterans in Manchester

Do you know of a military veteran who would benefit from a home to buy or rent at below market rates in Manchester?

Manchester City Council are working with veterans charity, Walking with the Wounded, Haig Housing and the BBC's DIY SOS TV programme, on an epic project to renovate an entire street in Manchester - complete with specially adapted homes and a support centre on the street. This is a UK-first by creating a veterans community in Manchester.

This is an opportunity for veterans in need of support or wanting to live in newly renovated homes in Manchester.

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Google Ad Grants

Google Ad Grants is the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Google's online advertising tool. Google Ad Grants empowers nonprofit organisations, through $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords™ advertising, to promote their missions and initiatives on Google search result pages.

Google want to support you in your efforts to raise awareness surrounding your cause and help you change the world. Google Ad Grants offers nonprofits $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords advertising to promote their mission and grow their nonprofit on Google search result pages.

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Patient views sought to help shape sight saving service for diabetics

Patients across Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale, Oldham and Bury are being asked their views on diabetic eye screening.

The North East Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (NEDESP) is carrying out a review of screening sites and wants the views of diabetic patients on where they can go to be screened.

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Health and Wellbeing

Round 5 of Rosa’s FGM Small Grants Programme is now open

Rosa is a charitable fund set up to support initiatives that benefit women and girls in the UK. Voluntary and community organisations are invited to apply for small grants to help tackle Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the UK. Grants of between £500 and £5,000 are available for voluntary and community organisations across the UK.

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Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - dragons den funding

The Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMW) dragons have identified another £150k non-recurrent funding for 2015/16 to support innovative proposals and ideas that will contribute to them achieving their Trust Quality Account priorities.

What do I need to do?
Just produce a short brief (no longer than a side of A4) outlining who you are, what you propose to do, which Quality Account priorities your bid covers and how much funding you need. No bid is too small but your bid should not exceed £10k.

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Training and volunteering with Talk English

Manchester Adult Education Service are looking for enthusiastic, committed volunteers who want to make a real difference to people’s lives and teach English. To be a volunteer ESOL teacher you will need to be able to demonstrate excellent skills in spoken and written English at Level 2 (GCSE equivalent) and good computer skills at Level 1.

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Volunteering

Grants for voluntary and community groups to help prevent homelessness

If you’re a voluntary or community group, specifically one that is pro-active in this field, you can apply for funding to tackle and prevent homelessness.

As part of its continued commitment to preventing homelessness, Manchester City Council is aiming to provide investment in 2015/16 through the Directorate for Children and Families Homelessness Prevention Grants programme.

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Hepatitis c testing in Greater Manchester

What is Hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a virus that can infect and damage the liver. In most cases it causes no noticeable symptoms until the liver has been damaged. The hepatitis C virus is found in the blood of someone with hepatitis C infection and is usually passed on through blood-to-blood contact such as by sharing razors or toothbrushes, or by sharing unsterilised needles.

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