Spirit of Manchester Festival 2015 calendar
Take a look at our calendar of events - click on the name of the event for more information about the activities, the venue, etc.
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Take a look at our calendar of events - click on the name of the event for more information about the activities, the venue, etc.
Manchester City Council has been awarded £110,000 by the Police Innovation Fund to support domestic violence and abuse (DV&A) victims in the City. There are three distinct elements within the grant programme:
Early Help/Prevention
£40,000 of this money is to develop an early help/prevention service for low and medium risk cases of DV&A. At the moment there are no interventions available for low to medium risk couples who choose to stay together.
Manchester City Council has £20,000 to develop and deliver training in domestic violence and abuse (DV&A) awareness for Early Help Hub staff and Social Work teams. The full funding of £20,000 will be awarded to one successful applicant to provide a training programme for frontline workers. The programme will need to be delivered to all Early Help Hub staff and Social Work teams in local area venues arranged by MCC.
Click on the map to find events that are taking place across Manchester
Get Involved!
Would you like to raise awareness of your organisation? Celebrate your community and the work you do together? Recruit new supporters, volunteers and funds? If so, then we would love for you to hold an event as part of this year's Spirit of Manchester Festival!
Do you have an idea for a project that can make a difference in the local community? Need some help getting it off the ground?
The One Manchester Community Fund has £500,000 in grant funding available over the next five years to support projects in the communities in which they work. Donations will be awarded to those organisations that can demonstrate that their work is making a change happen in their community.
The Equity Foundation exists to support customers, their families and their communities.
The Equity Foundation currently offers three funding streams:
Equity Together Fund - Awards of up to £2,500. Exclusively for Equity customers and their families who want funding for projects they'd like to set up or are already involved with.
Tell vInspired your great idea for a project to solve a problem in your area and they’ll give you cash to make it happen. If you're aged 14-25 and have an idea that will solve a problem in your community vInspired want to help.
Submit a simple application and vInspired could offer you up to £500 to turn your ideas into reality, and help you get your project off the ground. The great thing about Cashpoint is that you run your project the way you want to.
If you’re 14-25, vInspired cashpoint could give you a grant of up to £500 to design and run your own social action project
Has your community or voluntary group been working to involve patients and the public in improving health care services?
Have you got some good practice to share?
NHS England is seeking to make grant awards to showcase good practice around patient and citizen participation in healthcare. NHS England know that there is really excellent patient and public involvement work happening all around the country and want to do more to share and learn from what is happening locally.
Manchester Mental and Social Care Trust are planning to redesign their later life mental health services.
In summary, Manchester Mental and Social Care Trust want to provide mental health services that are fit for purpose, underpinned by evidence based practice and which take account of service users’ and carers’ views as well as making best use of the available resources.