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Spirit Story Day Three - Wednesday 21 September

Seven stories were told on Wednesday 21 September:

Sow the City - making Manchester full of beans!

Sow the City is a social enterprise on a mission. It wants to take vacant and derelict bits of Manchester and turn each one into a green oasis, where members of the community are supported to design a garden to grow their own fruit and vegetables. They have already worked with over 80 community groups in Manchester to do this, and today was a step closer to starting work on a new site.

A healthier Manchester - Health & Social Care Stakeholder Bulletin Two

10 Oct 2016 - 09:51 by helen.walker

The second edition of the Manchester Health & Social Care Stakeholder Bulletin is out now. It contains an update on plans for the new single commissioning and hospital systems, and the latest information on the Local Care Organisation. 




The bulletin also sets out the overall plans for integrating health and social care in Manchester, which are summarised by this diagram:

News Type: 
Policy News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

£200,000 for social enterprises in the UK

7 Oct 2016 - 12:03 by michelle.foster

Santander is a leading financial services provider that offers a wide range of personal and commercial financial products and services in the UK.

The bank serves around 14 million active customers through their branch network and regional Corporate Business Centres.

They have launched an exciting new community programme called The Discovery Project to help one million people by 2020.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding

Heritage Lottery Fund - Kick the Dust grants

7 Oct 2016 - 11:58 by michelle.foster

Kick the Dust aims to make heritage relevant to the lives of young people, aged 11-25, now and in to the future. Building on their needs and interests, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) wants to see a greater number and diversity of young people benefit from high quality engagement with heritage. Transform how heritage engages young people with an ambitious, youth-focused project. You can apply for a grant of £500,000-£1,000,000 as part of a consortium.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding

£18,000 grants to fund new websites for Charities

7 Oct 2016 - 11:56 by michelle.foster

The Transform Foundation has recently launched a new grant programme, which will be providing £18,000 grants to a select number of non-profits, to fund the design and build of a new website for them. The grant will include a range of cutting edge tools for engaging with supporters and service users as well as the costs of the strategy, design and training required to get the website up and running.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding

Second Half Fund: sharing time and talents for life

7 Oct 2016 - 11:53 by michelle.foster

The Second Half Fund is a partnership between Nesta and the Office for Civil Society. Nesta and the Office for Civil Society are looking to support the growth of innovations that mobilise the time and talents of many more people aged over 50, to help others, alongside public services in four key priority areas:
• Children and young people: People aged 50+ supporting and encouraging children and young people to succeed and find employment through social action

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding
Volunteering

Join In Stay In Fund

7 Oct 2016 - 11:51 by michelle.foster

The Join In Stay In Fund will award grants of up to £50,000 and significant non-financial support from a behavioural science evaluation partner, for organisations to undertake Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) to understand which interventions work best in retaining volunteers who are 50 and over following a large one-off volunteering event.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding
Volunteering

Give More Get More Fund: exploring intensive volunteering

7 Oct 2016 - 11:47 by michelle.foster

The Give More Get More Fund is a partnership between Nesta and the Office for Civil Society which will support organisations to develop and test intensive volunteering placements for people during, or as they approach, retirement, that create clear impact alongside public services. For example, you might be a hospital that can offer placements for three months for people to radically improve patients’ well-being and outcomes, or a charity who can create intensive placements for people in schools to improve literacy and attainment.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building
Funding
Volunteering

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