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EnglishArabicBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIgboItalianJapaneseKoreanKurdish (Kurmanji)LatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalayMalteseNepaliNorwegianPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSomaliSpanishSudaneseSwahiliSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelshYorubaThe Community Sport Activation Fund is a £40 million Lottery revenue fund developed to support grassroots activity at a very local level.
The Fund was designed in response to demand and will aim to unlock potential and resources. The Fund will not prescribe how projects will deliver but will invest in what works best in different areas, based on local evidence.
Local Government Information Unit have produced a briefing on the Living Wage and how it relates to local government.
The briefing covers:
A ‘what, why, who and where’ of the Living Wage
An update on the Living Wage and Local Authorities
A short comment on where next for the Living Wage
The briefing may be of use to all councillors and council officers working to tackle
poverty and reduce inequality in their areas. It may be of particular interest to those who are working on local authority pay and procurement.
No experience needed. Simply join in the fun and have a go
Attend all sessions if you like or pick and choose the sessions which appeal to you most.
Fridays 1:30 – 3:30
Greater Manchester’s Energy Switching Scheme is being organised by the ten councils within Greater Manchester (Manchester, Bury, Oldham, Salford, Stockport, Wigan, Bolton, Rochdale, Tameside and Trafford). The scheme brings together a number of people who want to switch providers into one ‘auction’. Energy providers then bid for their business by offering the best available prices.
The more people join the collective scheme, the better a deal everybody gets.
Community Foundations operating across the North West have endowment match funding available for voluntary sector organisations wishing to endowment build.
The match is available via the Government’s Community First Endowment Challenge until March 2015.
Examples of types of scenarios that may qualify for the Community First Endowment Challenge include:
- A charity selling off land or wishing to maintain a building
- A voluntary and community organisation that is seeking to modernise the way it operates
Manchester City Council and Walk the Plank are pleased to announce that next year’s Manchester Day Parade will take place on Sunday 2 June 2013.
The government recently introduced changes to the Council Tax Benefit system to start in April 2013. They are changing the rules on how money is paid, and changing the name to Council Tax Support.
In Manchester around £50 million is spent on council tax benefit. Initial figures showed that funding for a local scheme would reduce by 10 per cent, leaving a funding gap of £5 million.
It means that, from April 2013, there will be less money to go round for people who claim the support.
As part of Manchester's International Women's Day celebrations Manchester City Council are hosting the city's women's awards.
These awards provide an opportunity to recognise the amazing contribution that women make to the city and to redress the under-representation of women in many industries by celebrating local women's achievements.
Red Rose Forest is planning a winter of tree planting – and need your help to create whole new swathes of woodland across Greater Manchester.
With funding secured from the government’s Big Tree Plant initiative and environmental charity Trees for Cities they’re aiming to plant thousands of trees during the next two months.
The Department of Health is seeking feedback from the NHS and other interested parties on final proposals to revise the governance of NHS charities.
NHS Charities were established to receive and manage charitable funds to support healthcare in the NHS. They are typically linked to individual NHS providers (mainly hospital trusts) and range from Great Ormond Street to residual historical funds.
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