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Surviving the Recovery

During the recent bout of hot weather, I somehow managed to come down with a cold. I not only felt ill, I also felt ridiculous: I mean who gets a cold in the middle of a heatwave? As I write this, figures have just been released showing that the country’s economy is slowly starting to grow again after the recession. It’s a similar feeling: I’m being told it’s lovely out there but it feels dreadful. No matter what the economic analysis says, when I look around I see incomes reducing, prices rising, services closing and life generally becoming more difficult.

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People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Children and Families

Learning, Skills and Employment

Spirit of Manchester

I've mentioned previously that there's a danger that this blog becomes a series of rants about things I'm angry about. Well not today, at least!

Our State of the Voluntary Sector report shows there are over 3000 voluntary and community groups in Manchester. I don't know them all but I do know a lot of them and one of the great pleasures of my job is that I get to see some of the amazing things happening in groups across Manchester and meet some fantastic people.

Opportunity to Help Troubled Families

The closing date to be part of the preferred providers list for services to Troubled Families has been extended for 2 weeks to 5pm on Fri 2nd August. Applications can be made through The Chest and the name of the opportunity is "Framework Agreement for the Provision of Troubled Families Interventions". Read more here.

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Sector News

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People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Children and Families

Commissioning

Funding

Health and Wellbeing

Learning, Skills and Employment

Framework Agreement for the Provision of Troubled Families Interventions

Manchester City Council (MCC) is very keen for organisations to apply for a new opportunity advertised on The Chest to be part of a preferred providers list for services for Troubled Families. The closing date is 19th July. They are hoping that a large number of organisations, small and large, offering a very wide range of services are successful in meeting the basic quality requirements.

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Sector News

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People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

Children and Families

Learning, Skills and Employment

DBS factsheet - how it works and key issues for organisations

The Disclosure and Barring Service launched its Update Service on 17 June.

The Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) launched its Update Service on 17 June 2013. This service is designed to deliver portability of disclosure and barring (formerly CRB) checks. It will allow a person to show a certificate to more than one employer and allow that employer to check whether the information on that person has changed since the certificate was produced.

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Sector News

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Volunteering

Volunteering Centre Manchester Evaluation Questionnaire for Organisations

It's that time of year again. We were wondering if you could spare a few minutes to complete a quick questionnaire to find out how we are doing.

There are 8 tick box questions relating to brokerage, good practice and developing opportunities so should take only two minutes to complete.

To complete the survey, please visit: www.surveymonkey.com/s/SZX5359

Many thanks for your help.

Mark Pritchard
Volunteer Centre Manager
Volunteer Centre Manchester

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Sector News

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Volunteering

VM Movement Thoughtful Thursdays - For Volunteer Managers

VM Movement are all about championing volunteer management & helping managers of volunteers to connect, learn & share stuff. It is run entirely through voluntary contribution of volunteer managers, and they’re always happy to hear from other volunteer managers who want to get involved.

The VM Movement lead an informal learning and discussion chat on twitter every Thursday, called Thoughtful Thursday (#ttvolmgrs), which is a great way of sharing your ideas, opinions, thoughts, etc. with other people who carry out a similar role.

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Sector News

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Volunteering

Have You Always Wanted To Learn How To Use The Internet?

Go-ON Manchester‘s aim is to help and support Manchester residents to make the most of the web. Whether you’re using email or searching the internet to pay your bills or do shopping, we can introduce you to the online world and help you to take advantage of the benefits this brings.

By people having the chance to go online you can improve wellbeing, quality of life and employment opportunities.

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Sector News

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Volunteering

VM Movement Thoughtful Thursdays - For Volunteer Managers

VM Movement are all about championing volunteer management & helping managers of volunteers to connect, learn & share stuff. It is run entirely through voluntary contribution of volunteer managers, and they’re always happy to hear from other volunteer managers who want to get involved.

The VM Movement lead an informal learning and discussion chat on twitter every Thursday, called Thoughtful Thursday (#ttvolmgrs), which is a great way of sharing your ideas, opinions, thoughts, etc. with other people who carry out a similar role.

News Type:

Sector News

Shared Topic Areas:

Volunteering