Ambition for Ageing Community Media seminar
3 October, 2018 - 13:30 to 16:00
Imagine a Greater Manchester where older people can make their own media on their own terms
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All Older People
New funds to boost diversity of people working in digital and tech jobs
Over £1 million will be available for initiatives which will help boost the digital skills of underrepresented groups and disabled people. 
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Take part in the GM Mayoral Communities Challenge
The Mayoral Communities Challenge consists of two phases. 
Phase one focuses on communities and neighbourhoods and will concentrate on looking at age-friendly places across Greater Manchester that are making a difference to older people’s everyday lives. The deadline for all phase one submissions is midnight, Saturday 1 December 2018.
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UnLtd – Thrive: Solutions for an Ageing Society
Thrive is UnLtd’s new social accelerator helping ambitious social ventures to scale. 
UnLtd will support over 25 social ventures a year through Thrive. UnLtd will support two groups of social ventures developing solutions in two distinct areas:
• Improving access to employment for those distant from the labour market
• Developing products and services for an ageing society
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Macc is a recruiting a new Chair of Trustees
Macc is a charity and put simply, our purpose is the city of Manchester. We work to inspire, enable and support the people of Manchester to get involved and build the communities where we live, work and grow. We are the support and development organisation for local charities, voluntary organisations, community groups and social enterprises. 
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Macc is recruiting new Trustees
Macc is a charity and put simply, our purpose is the city of Manchester. We work to inspire, enable and support the people of Manchester to get involved and build the communities where we live, work and grow. We are the support and development organisation for local charities, voluntary organisations, community groups and social enterprises.
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Volunteer at Age UK Manchester
Age UK Manchester have volunteer opportunities to assist in their volunteer led community café and also in their day centre working with older people. Crossacres area of Wythenshawe. Monday – Friday hours available, full training and DBS given. 
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Trapped: Stopping the criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults - Conference Invite - Monday 8 October
A forthcoming free conference the Programme Challenger and Deputy Mayor’s officer are hosting on Monday 8 October at Audacious Church.
The conference is focussed around what work has been done, and we can do as a GM system to identify, prevent and address the criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults.
We are inviting partners from LA’s (including the Safeguarding Boards) Police, Health, Education and Youth Offending Service, but we are also keen to ensure we have good representation from the voluntary, community and faith sector.
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Be 1 of 25 by sharing your Spirit of Manchester Story
Are you a Manchester voluntary sector organisation?
Would you like to share a story of your activity as part of the 2018 Spirit of Manchester Story Week in September?
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Mayoral age-friendly communities challenge launched – submit your schemes by 1 December
During The Festival of Ageing’s opening celebrations, Manchester’s Mayor, Andy Burnham issued his age-friendly communities mayoral challenge. He is asking the voluntary and community sector, public services, and older people’s groups to submit their best age-friendly schemes with a view to helping to create even more age-friendly neighbourhoods across Greater Manchester.
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