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Social Value and the Magic Money Tree

27 Aug 2019 - 10:38 by Nigel Rose

I’ve been involved in Greater Manchester Social Value Network since its beginning in 2015. I have been to dozens of meetings about social value, run many workshops, attended a fair few conferences and, despite the efforts of the network and other social value organisations, there is still a lot of basic misunderstanding about some aspects of a social value approach. One of the mistakes I come across frequently is the confusion of social value with “additional” or “on-top” value and that’s what this blog is about.

Shared Topic Areas: 
Business citizenship
Commissioning

Celebrating 100 years of Social Action

22 Jul 2019 - 13:48 by michelle.foster

A tale of two cities

Monday 22 July 2019 marks 100 years (to the day) of the formation of Manchester and Salford Council of Social Service. Macc, Salford CVS and Gaddum have worked together to mark the occasion with a celebratory event at the People’s History Museum. We felt it is important to mark 100 years of social action across the twin cities of Salford and Manchester.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Arts & culture
Black, Minority and Ethnic
Capacity Building
Children and Families
Commissioning
Community Engagement
Crime and Disorder
Environment
Equalities
Faith
Funding
Health and Wellbeing
Homelessness
Learning, Skills and Employment
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
Mental Health
Older People
Physical Disability
Policy and Influence
Social enterprise
Transgender
Volunteering
Young People

LCO's and the VCSE in Greater Manchester 2018

17 Jan 2019 - 16:05 by Nigel Rose

Darren Knight, Chief Executive of Bolton CVS has conducted some research, on behalf of Greater Manchester VCSE Devolution Refernce Group, into the relationship of Local Care Organisations (organisations that bring together stautory community health and social care providers) and the VCSE sector. In brief, all LCO's want to work with VCSE sector and recognise their importance but that is not translating into funding or consistent engagement mechanisms as yet.

Shared Topic Areas: 
Commissioning

Invitation to talk about housing with architecture students

19 Apr 2018 - 07:34 by jack.puller

"Care & Repair England aims to improve housing & related services so that older people can live independently in their own homes for as long as they choose.

  • Our special focus is on older people living in poor or unsuitable private housing
  • We work with, and not just for, older people
  • We innovate, develop, support and promote practical housing help eg with home repairs, adaptations, or advice about moving home

We seek to improve related policy and practice."

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Commissioning
Community Engagement
Older People
Policy and Influence

Civil Society Strategy Consultation: Save the Petunias!

13 Mar 2018 - 19:14 by Mike Wild

"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again”.

Shared Topic Areas: 
Black, Minority and Ethnic
Children and Families
Commissioning
Community Engagement
Crime and Disorder
Environment
Equalities
Faith
Health and Wellbeing
Homelessness
Learning, Skills and Employment
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual
Mental Health
Older People
Physical Disability
Policy and Influence
Social enterprise
Transgender
VCM
Volunteering
Young People
Other

Urgent Invitation: Manchester Provider Board Workshops on The Future of Community Health and Social Care Services in Manchester

7 Jun 2017 - 16:33 by Nigel Rose

The Manchester Provider Board (MPB) is inviting Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector Organisations to attend one of a set of “Future-Search” workshops to discuss the future of community health and social care services in Manchester.

News Type: 
Policy News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Commissioning
Health and Wellbeing

Update on Our Manchester VCS Funding Co-Design

20 Apr 2017 - 11:15 by Nigel Rose

The co-design group met on Feb 21st 2017 to discuss the results of the consultation and work out the implications for the design of the funding programme, identifying a number of issues that needed further work. These included answers to questions such as: what does strength based funding mean and how would it be evidenced?; define what Manchester-based is and how it is measured?; and what is the approach to neighbourhoods where there are not strong organisations? An implementation group was formed and has been meeting weekly to develop the detail of the funding programme.

News Type: 
Policy News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Commissioning

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