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Manchester City Council has published details of options to make £13.8m of savings in its budget for 2016/17.
The Council’s financial position, and approach to addressing it, is set out in a series of reports which will be considered at scrutiny meetings this month and a special Executive meeting on 17 February before a final budget is set in March.
The Lloyds Bank Foundation funding programmes offer short and long term grants. Support is adapted to the needs of small and medium sized charities that are committed to delivering work which breaks or prevents cycles of disadvantage.
Lloyds Bank Foundation grants are open to charities whose income in the last set of published accounts greater than £25,000 and less than £1million and who meet their eligibility criteria.
Sport Relief Community Cash is a grant scheme running across Greater Manchester of £100,000 with grants ranging from £500 to £1,000 available to small organisations that are undertaking work that helps people of all ages feel more included in their community, builds their skills and increases their sense of achievement.
The grants are available to constituted community organisations, registered charities, social enterprises, co-operatives and community interest companies. Groups which have been established for less than 12 months are eligible to apply.
In the coming weeks Manchester City Council plan to refresh their Market Position Statement (MPS), which is intended to help identify what the future demand for care and support in Manchester might look like, to outline their commissioning intentions, and to help improve the experience of working with Manchester City Council.
The current edition of the MPS can be found here: www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/5544/market_position_statement
The Greater Manchester Youth Network (GMYN) has charity places available at the Great Manchester 10K Run.
Are you looking for a challenge in 2016? Would you like to do something to support young people in Greater Manchester at the same time?
Apply for a place now and be part of Manchester's Greatest Run on Sunday 22 May. The 10k running event is broadcast live on BBC.
Join Team GMYN for only £10 registration fee and pledge to raise a minimum sponsorship of £250 to help continue GMYN’s work to transform the lives of disadvantaged young people.
The Commissioning Hub at Manchester City Council are facilitating an awareness raising event for a charity organisation called Beacon Counselling Trust who are commissioned by GamCare (www.gamcare.org.uk) to deliver support for individuals with gambling addiction/problems, as well as those affected by gambling.
Stroke survivors from across Manchester launched a new book full of poetry and short stories about their life experiences at Citylabs, Manchester. A short film of the event can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsETDWqvz3s
The provisional local government finance settlement for 2016/17 was released by the government on December 17th 2015. It was expected that there would be further announcements made just before or after Christmas but this does not seem to have happened.
Big Potential, a BIG Lottery Fund grant fund, will deliver approximately £20m of grant funding over 3 years to eligible VCSE organisations with the aim of improving the sustainability, capacity and scale of VCSE organisations in order that they may deliver greater social impact.
The programme aims to raise awareness of the social investment market and support VCSEs who want to prepare themselves for social investment or winning contracts.
Big Potential has two possible application routes - Breakthrough and Advanced.
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