Oldham
Healthwatch Oldham are hosting a free Health and Wellbeing Event on Tuesday 28 February from 10:45am - 2pm at the European Islamic Centre, 79 Manchester Road, OL8 4LN.
The event is in partnership with BAME Connect and OAK Community Development, and there will be a range of health and wellbeing stalls from services across Oldham providing information including:
Aims/priorities: Kellogg’s, in partnership with Forever Manchester, is awarding grants of £1,000 to school Breakfast Clubs, to help them provide breakfast to those children who need it most.
Who can apply? Eligible breakfast clubs must be based in a school in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
A limited number of grants are available with priority being given to schools that either:
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support those in society who face the greatest challenges and whose opportunities are the most limited.
The Trust operates a three-year rotation system, with different fields of interests being funded each year:
Your Health Oldham would like to invite you, your colleagues, and your networks to our FREE Raising the Issue of Weight Training. This is a bespoke training package that has been developed to support you and your colleagues to ‘have the conversation’ with residents about weight.
The training will cover the following topics:
Did you know…
Oldham Council is refreshing its Carers’ Strategy and needs your help! They would like unpaid carers to get involved to help create a new Carers’ Strategy, which will outline priorities and support for unpaid carers across the borough over the next three years. Your views will help to shape the strategy and support they offer locally.
Who are unpaid carers?
Aims/priorities: The Charles Plater Trust is an independent charitable organisation that makes grants to a wide range of religious and non-religious organisations, people, and groups, supporting leadership, social action, and applied research projects across England and Wales.
Funding is intended to support the Trust's three main priorities:
Who can apply? Registered charities with at least three unrelated trustees or directors can apply.
Aims/priorities: The Institute of Physics provides funding for projects across the UK and Ireland that improve people’s relationship with physics in their family or community groups.
Aims/priorities: The aim of the Foundation is to help charities and other organisations that support serving and former members of the British Armed Forces, and sometimes their dependants, who are in need.
Aims/priorities: Cycle and Stride for Active Lives is an exciting initiative from TfGM that supports community groups and people in Greater Manchester to become more active through walking and cycling. The aim is to reach communities who experience more barriers when it comes to walking and cycling. We will work with approximately 60 different communities, charities, faith groups and schools over the next three years to improve access to cycling and walking.
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership has produced a resource outlining free mental health and wellbeing training available for staff and volunteers across Greater Manchester.
The resource links you to websites with more information and how to book onto training.