Manchester Safeguarding Children’s Board Bulletin - Spring 2015
Please see attached to download the Spring 2015 bulletin from the Manchester Safeguarding Children’s Board.
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Please see attached to download the Spring 2015 bulletin from the Manchester Safeguarding Children’s Board.
The Big Lottery want to help Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations which are delivering important services, but currently facing challenges, to plan for the future. Delivered by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of the Office for Civil Society, the Local Sustainability Fund aims to help these organisations become stronger, more sustainable, and more resilient, to ensure they prosper and continue to support beneficiaries in future years.
There are two aspects to the programme a VCSE Diagnostic Tool and the Local Sustainability Fund.
CLES have 4 office chairs spare to go to a local good cause on a first come first served basis.
If you’re interested contact 0161 236 7036, or email: [email protected]
In October, Beth Plant, Manager of Policy and Influence at Macc along with Elaine Morrison Head of Commissioning 10-19 years held a Summit for voluntary and community sector groups that worked with children, young people and families came together to discuss Early Help for families, how can voluntary and public sector organisations and communities support children and families to increase resilience and prevent problems escalating?
There were several reasons for this:
A short (5 min) video blog on why Macc decided to develop a policy on Open Data and how we chose what data to share.
You can find Macc's Open Data releases (updated quarterly) here:
https://www.manchestercommunitycentral.org/policy-and-influence/open-data
The women and girls initiative is a funding stream of up to £45 million which The Big Lottery will invest in services for women and girls. The overarching aim of this funding is empowering women and girls to take control of their lives.
Adactus Housing Association have announced the second round of their Neighbourhood Fund for Manchester.
There is £10,000 up for grabs across Manchester with a maximum of £1,000 available for each successful project.
The fund is open to individuals, residents groups, community groups, charitable organisations and social enterprises working in and around areas where Adactus have homes.
The idea behind Skipton Building Society’s Grassroots Giving campaign is to help community organisations, or groups, who only have access to limited funding from elsewhere. Submissions are welcomed from community groups of all shapes and sizes – the programme is looking to support smaller groups who struggle to find funding elsewhere and is not open to registered charities. Grants of £500 are available.
Skipton Building Society are looking for applications from organisations or groups that show a real commitment to their local community.
After a period of consultation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, one of the UK's largest independent grant-making foundations, has launched a new strategy which focuses on six new priorities relating to the changes it wishes to see in the UK.
To support its new strategy, the Foundation will be making £25 million a year available in grant funding to not-for-profit organisations in the UK who have great ideas that will support the new priorities.
The purpose of this communication is to update colleagues and partners who work with families, children and young people on developments in relation to Early Help.
The key developments this month include:
• Launch of the Early Help vision and commitment to Early Help Hubs.
• Launch of Help and Support Manchester (previously Family Services Directory)
• Developing the Early Help Common Assessment