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Simon O’Brien and Catherine Hay have both been recognised at Riverside’s Volunteering Awards for the impact they have made on their communities.
Imperial War Museum North and Manchester Museum are actively seeking to recruit people who want to improve their health and wellbeing, specifically:
• Young people (16-25 years old)
• Ex-service personnel
• Older people (50 years plus)
Applications will be considered from anyone in the Greater Manchester area who feels they may benefit from the programme.
Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) North West working with Historic England (HE), the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), Manchester City Council and Macc launched the Manchester Heritage Buildings Network on 8 March at Methodist Central Hall. 
If you want to learn how to use data more effectively in designing services, in monitoring and applying for funding, then you will want to attend a set of free training events put on by Manchester University in association with Macc.
Better Community Business Network Grant Initiative aims to provide small grant awards to empower charities and local community projects for the betterment of society. This initiative will distribute up to £3000 per month to small but credible community projects, which are able to demonstrate the positive impact that they add to the local community.
The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund has grants available for charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies in the UK that are working to support unpaid carers.
Grants are available for up to £80,000 over three years. The emphasis of the Development Grant is to support the development of a solid foundation for the future.
The grant could, for example, be used to enable an organisation to make a step change such as diversifying its income streams or setting up a social enterprise to help it become more sustainable in the long term.
Fourteen is a £3.5m national programme funded by Spirit of 2012, a charity set up by the Big Lottery Fund to connect events to communities across the country; supporting opportunities in sport, physical activity, culture and the arts, volunteering and social action. Forever Manchester is the local partner responsible for managing the money and Harpurhey and Moston is the beneficiary area for the funding.
'Check It Out' is a new prostate cancer support group for African and Caribbean men that has been set up by the Urology Nurses at Manchester Royal Infirmary. On average 1 in 4 Black men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lives as opposed to 1 in 8 White men (Prostate Cancer UK).
The group will be meeting next on Tuesday 26 April and Tuesday 26 July 2016, 3pm-5pm.
For further information, contact Claire Dutton / Laura Robinson, Urology Clinical Nurse Specialists on 0161 276 3645.
Roots HR have released guidance about Easter falling early this year which may affect those whose leave years are April – March.
Root HR’s guidance says:
“You may have noticed that Easter falls early this year - the 4 day break from Good Friday to Easter Monday is from 25 to 28 March. Those of you whose annual leave years run from April – March will find therefore that that you have 10 bank/public holidays in the 2015/16 year and only 6 in the 2016/17 year.
Do you work with people who may be experiencing domestic violence and abuse?
Manchester City Council’s newly updated multi-agency toolkit will hopefully make your job easier, by giving information you need to advise on matters like legal issues and housing options.
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