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OneFamily customers can now nominate projects for a Community Award of up to £5,000 or up to £25,000.
HOME are looking for 15 of the region’s most promising young filmmakers and film fans aged 16-19 to take part in their BFI Film Academy 2015. This intensive 2 month project will cover everything from practical filmmaking to film theory, programming, distribution and certification.
Participants will learn from industry professionals and will be given opportunities to attend special events at HOME throughout the project. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to develop your TV or filmmaking career.
The Ideas and Pioneers Fund supports people who have an idea with unusual promise to improve the life chances and opportunities of individuals and communities in the UK. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation are looking for ideas which relate closely to their own charitable mission – they aim to help people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity, so that they can realise their potential and enjoy fulfilling and creative lives.
The Skills and Opportunities Fund is one of the many ways Natwest are contributing to the communities they live and work in. This year Natwest are committing £2.5m to fund projects in charities, social enterprises, community groups, state-funded schools and colleges across the UK and Ireland.
The Home Office is currently consulting on the formula it uses to fund the police. This is the calculation made which decides how much money is allocated from central Government to police services across the country. In Greater Manchester, police are funded through a combination this grant and money raised locally through council tax. Most of the money comes from the government and the police rely heavily on this grant to deliver policing services.
Devolution in Greater Manchester will allow us to have a bigger impact, more quickly, on the health, wealth and wellbeing of the 2.8m people who live in our city region. Health and care services will be far freer to respond to what local people want; using their experience and expertise to help change the way we spend the money. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority produces an ebulletin to keep you up to date with all things Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Devolution.
Unlimited Potential is a social enterprise that exists to make the world a happier and healthier place through social innovation, which has been in operation since 2002.
The purpose of this engagement is to seek a wide range of views on the refreshed NHS North, Central and South Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Strategy 2015 – 2018.
The strategy sets out how Manchester CCGs plan to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequalities and improve health outcomes for all that live and work in the city of Manchester and ensuring that we comply with our legal obligations as defined in the Equality Act 2010.
Care and support in England is changing. The new Care Act 2014, is making care and support more consistent across England.
People could benefit from the changes if they:
• receive care and support
• support someone as a carer
• are planning for future care and support
What is changing?
Since April 2015, the Care Act Legislation has introduced:
• A new national level of care and support needs to make care and support more consistent across the country
• New support for carers
• Deferred payment agreements for care costs
The Expert Patients Programme supports people with long-term conditions to regain as much control over their physical and emotional well-being as possible.
Patients have said they often need to develop different ways to cope with regular discomfort and not being able to do the things they used to do or would like to do.
The course is delivered in a group session once a week for 6 weeks, each session lasts for 2 ½ hours with a refreshment break.
It is an evidence based self-management programme and delivered at local venues across Manchester.
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