All Community Engagement

Tree of Life Centre – Spirit Story – Tea and Tai Chi

At noon on Thurs 22nd September, the morning Craft Group had just finished. Earlier there’d been a Tai Chi session. Soon they’ll be holding a discussion event on health and wellbeing.

The Tree of Life Centre provides many vital services in Wythenshawe. These include health and wellbeing sessions, advice and friendship groups, a community café and opportunities for local people to train, gain qualifications and experience through volunteering.

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Sector News

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Arts & culture

Children and Families

Community Engagement

Absolute Community - Your invitation to join us in changing the world

Absolute Community is designed to enable staff to understand the powerful assets within individuals, neighbourhoods and communities of place, business and identity.

Be inspired, contribute your powerful assets and learn how to maximise on the gifts, talents and skills all around us.

Introduction sessions

Friday 1 July 2016, 9.30am - 12.30pm and 2pm - 5pm

Friday 8 July 2016, 9.30am - 12.30pm and 2pm - 5pm

Wednesday 3 August 2016, 9.30am - 12.30pm and 2pm - 5pm

Wednesday 11 August 2016, 9.30am - 12.30pm and 2pm - 5pm

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Sector News

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Community Engagement

Policy and Influence

Let's talk about the EU Referendum....

Do you realise that the result of the EU Referendum will be announced in Manchester? Must admit, that one had passed me by in the midst of a lot of noise which is supposedly the national debate. Campaigning has only just officially started but of course it’s been going on for months if not years already. There’s a lot of media coverage about the political positioning and opinions being hurled back and forth in speeches. There are fairly regular “sector” positions reported in the media too on both sides – particularly the voice of business leaders.

Shared Topic Areas:

Business citizenship

Community Engagement

Other

Help shape the development of The University of Manchester’s engagement with its local communities

Recognising the inter-dependent and mutually-beneficial relationship between the University and its neighbouring communities, The University of Manchester is currently developing a new strategic framework for community engagement to better focus, target and measure its activities.

These activities range from research partnerships, teaching programmes, culture and the arts, student volunteering, schools-liaison, sustainability, employment and skills support through to engagement with charities, businesses and the public sector.

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Sector News

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Community Engagement

Learning, Skills and Employment

Policy and Influence

Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Devolution

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Could you give us 10 minutes to talk about health?

As part of Greater Manchester’s Devolution agenda, for the first time Greater Manchester is taking control of £6 billion of public funding for health and social care from April 2016.

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Policy News

Shared Topic Areas:

People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Children and Families

Myths about the voluntary sector - Parts 3 and 4

A few weeks back I met with a group of voluntary & community sector leaders working with children young people and families and our local Director of Children's Services. We were talking about how to build the relationship between the sectors so we hit on the idea of writing a blog to challenge a few myths and misconceptions which tend to distort the relationship.

Myths about the voluntary sector - Parts 1 and 2

A few weeks back I met with a group of voluntary & community sector leaders working with children young people and families and our local Director of Children's Services. We were talking about how to build the relationship between the sectors so we hit on the idea of writing a blog to challenge a few myths and misconceptions which tend to distort the relationship.

Spirit of Manchester Awards 2015 – get your nominations in by 3 July

The Spirit of Manchester Awards is a series of awards celebrating and highlighting all the excellent work being carried out in Manchester’s voluntary and community sector. As well as providing recognition to the sector in these hard times, we want to raise the profile of the sector amongst the general public and encourage local giving and active citizenship.

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Sector News

Working with Manchester Commissioners

Manchester City Council have published their Market Position Statement for Care and Support 2015/16 and anyone with an interest in the future of care and support in Manchester should read it. Manchester's aim is "to forge a new relationship with its partners to benefit all who need care". The Market Position Statement describes the commissioning approach, the context for commissioning and some of the key issues that Manchester needs to address.

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Sector News

Shared Topic Areas:

Children and Families

5.30pm Albert Square, Tuesday 3rd Feb

Tonight is the “manVcam” rally in on Albert Square in Manchester. Some local voluntary and community groups have been wondering about whether it’s appropriate to go along, so here's my take on it.

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