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The Greater Manchester VCSE Leadership Group are building a new VCSE ‘Collaborative’ to harness the passion, knowledge and expertise that exists within the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector, to help influence policy making at a Greater Manchester (GM) level.
The latest newsletter looks at the disproportionate impact of poverty on BAME communities and share comments from VCSE leaders in Greater Manchester on this and the recent Social Metrics Commission report. There is also an article by Marcus Johns of IPPR North, writing about ten years of the austerity crisis. There is also a reminder about the Annual Impact survey for you to complete.
Greater Manchester is establishing a Women and Girls’ Equality Panel to accelerate gender equality, enabling women and girls to live their best life in Greater Manchester.
The Panel will work to ensure that all women and girls, across the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, have equality of opportunity to start well, live well and age well.
The State of the Sector survey is back and we need your help!
GM Poverty Action have launched their Annual Impact Survey to find out more about how people in their network feel about their work, what they value and the different ways in which GMPA has impact.
The findings will help inform GMPA’s work and support them when making a case to funders and other stakeholders.
The survey should take around ten minutes to complete.
In the latest newsletter GM Poverty Action look at what is being done to get child poverty back on the national agenda and introduce a new member of their team working with a Poverty Truth Commission and share information about Stockport’s integrated support. There are also updates from the GM Living Wage on the campaign and Citizens Advice about their out-of-hours helpline service.
In the latest newsletter GMPA look ahead with an editorial piece by Graham Whitham on how to go about tackling poverty in the aftermath of the pandemic. There is a write up on a webinar discussing positive examples of co-production during the crisis and an update on the GM Living Wage campaign. Staying with the Living Wage, there is a focus on Bolton and there is information about a new study on the impact of Covid-19 on food support in GM.
George Floyd was murdered. He was not the first victim of police brutality and nor is America the only country in which this happens.
At Macc we want to express our solidarity and support to the Black Lives Matter movement and for our brothers and sisters in Minneapolis, Manchester and around the world who are rightly fighting for racial and social justice.
This newsletter is part of the work that the Greater Manchester Social Value network (GMSVN) does to share what social value is happening across Greater Manchester and beyond. The network aims to champion social value by promoting great examples which, can be easily incorporated into everyday working practices and to inspire organisations, groups and business to adopt this approach to their core work.
Small Charity Week celebrates and raises awareness of the essential work of the UK’s small charity sector who make an invaluable contribution to the lives of millions of individuals, communities and causes across the UK and the rest of the world.
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