Let’s Talk… Oldham is a conversation Oldham Council want to have with everyone who lives, works or spends time in Oldham. It wants to hear what matters to you about where you live – what’s good, and what could be better.
Talking about Oldham will help Oldham Council understand what’s important to you and your neighbours. It will help it work out what the priorities should be for where you live and for our great town.
The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership have launched a survey to gather views the new ways that the NHS, local government and partners are working together. You can find more information and a link to the survey here: www.gmcvo.org.uk/news/greater-manchester-local-care-approach-survey
Giving World is a registered charity. It redirects new business end-of-line and discontinued stock (e.g. warm clothing, food, toiletries) for free to the most deprived communities in the UK.
Its evidence indicates charities across the UK are struggling to meet the increasing level of need in their communities.
Based on national and international research, Rochdale now delivers a group intervention programme; Break4Change (B4C).
B4C is an adolescent family violence intervention programme designed to address young people’s violence and abuse towards parents/carers. The aim of B4C is for young people to stop the violence and abuse toward their family and develop respectful family relationships so that all members feel safe at home.
You are invited to attend the Neighbourhood Learning Circle in the neighbourhood you work in as the sessions are neighbourhood specific.
The session will be informative, interactive, and community focussed, promoting change and improvement across the specific neighbourhood. The Learning Circle will look further at how we can collectively work together to improve the lives of children and families.
The session will include:
On 11 May GM Moving will host the third GM Moving Conference. The day will bring together leaders from across the system in Greater Manchester; health, physical activity, education, community and voluntary sector, planning, urban design, transport, sport and many more. For a day of information, opportunities to learn and connect with others who have a role to play to deliver the shared vision of GM Moving. The full agenda will be released mid-march, to book a place click here.
The University of Manchester is conducting a project, alongside Manchester City Council, as part of its Third-Year Geography module ‘Governing Urban Transformations’ at the University of Manchester. It is generating a strategy and report for tackling period poverty in Greater Manchester, which has some really exciting opportunities to be taken seriously by officials, with some of the policy recommendations potentially being implemented within our city.
Through the delivery of the Skills Support for Employment (SSE) contract, Employment Links Partnership (ELP), in conjunction with EDUK8 and Rochdale based support centre, Recovery Republic, would like to invite referrals for the forthcoming Routeway into Support Work programme, and details are as follows:
Routeway dates: Monday 6 April 2020 – Friday 26 June 2020.
Monday 6 April 2020 – Friday 17 April - learners will attend 10 days at ELP centre to undertake a mix of sector related modules including eLearning and a blend of bite size relevant learning.
Through the delivery of the Skills Support for Employment (SSE) contract, Employment Links Partnership (ELP), in conjunction with EDUK8 and Rochdale based care providers, would like to invite you to apply for the forthcoming Routeway into Care programme, leading to guaranteed job interviews upon successful completion for all participants, for multiple vacancies across all Care disciplines in Rochdale. Routeway details are as follows:
Routeway dates: Monday 6th Apr 2020 to Friday 12th June 2020
Venue: Employment Links Centre, 99-101 Drake Street, Rochdale, OL16 1PZ
Have your say: GMCVO survey: Public sector funding of VCSE organisations in Greater Manchester - 2018- 2020.
GMCVO conducted a survey in 2018 to obtain a quick snapshot of the level of public sector funding into the VCSE sector across GM, the responses received were subsequently used to inform discussions with colleagues within the GM Health and Social Care Partnership about the impact of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on funding into the VCSE sector.