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Culturally Appropriate Mental Health Fund

Aims/priorities: The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership has established a unique and innovative fund, which aims to address health inequalities faced by marginalised ethnic communities when trying to get help from mental health services.

Voluntary and Community Sector Frontline Support Grants

Aims/priorities: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is providing this grant programme over the next three years to support the work of the voluntary and community sector in tackling homelessness across England.

The Programme is divided into four individually biddable lots, each with a different objective:

Lot 1 - Increase the capacity and capability of the sector to prevent and relieve rough sleeping and homelessness.

Asda Foundation - Empowering Local Communities Grant

Aims/priorities: The purpose of the programme is to support projects and activities which are important to a community which benefit local people.

Eligible costs and projects under each theme supported by the programme include the following:

Building Resilient Communities

Supporting community groups with the equipment, essentials and facilities to enable activity to take place. This might be enhancing what is already available, providing core items or enabling an activity to continue.

Active Lives

Zuto Make A Difference Fund

The Zuto Make a Difference Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.

Who can apply?

The Zuto Make a Difference Fund aims to encourage and support grassroots community organisations. This means small, community-based and locally controlled groups that manage themselves, encourage people to get involved as volunteers and who just need a bit of financial help to be able to work with their community in the way they’d like.

Poundland Foundation Opens for New Round

Aims/priorities: The Foundation aims to transform communities and change lives across the UK by making grants to charities and grass-roots community organisations.

Who can apply: Grants are available for local charities, community interest companies and unregistered community organisations across the UK.

Governor elections

Governor website graphics elections 2022

It's that time again where they are planning Elections to the Council of Governors which will run from April to June 2022.

At Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, their governors play a key role in representing the views of our patient, public and staff members, ensuring that services meet the needs of our communities.

If you have an interest in their Trust and in helping them to continue to deliver the best possible care to patients, then please consider standing for election as a governor.

Shoosmiths charity webinars

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Following conclusion of the Charity Commission’s inquiry enough has been written over the last 7 years about the collapse of Kids Company but moving forward the Commission has invited all trustees to consider the wider lessons in the context of their own charity.

There are plenty of pointers, so please join Shoosmiths Charity experts for two 30-minute webinars to learn more.

 Where: Webinar

 Date: Part one: Thursday, 10 March

           Part two: Thursday, 24 March

Free SIM cards for young people

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The Prince's Trust and Vodafone partnership are supplying SIM cards that will support young people in Greater Manchester to stay connected and help them progress into employment, education or training.

The SIMs contain 20GB of mobile data, unlimited calls and texts every month for six months.

To be eligible the young person must be:

  • Not in education, training, or employment
  • Aged 18-25
  • Living in Greater Manchester

If you are supporting a young person who meets the criteria, you just need to do two things:

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