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Greater Manchester's Ten Tips for Talking

Published date: 
Monday, 18th October 2021

The GM10 Tips for Talking are 10 key messages to support families’ and practitioner’s understanding, of the importance of talking to young children from an early stage.
 
The Tips can be used by any practitioners who work with families of young children, midwives, to early help workers and early years practitioners, and can be used individually or as a full set of resources. They are part of a range of resources developed to support the GM Early Speech, Language and Communication pathway which is being implemented by all of the 10 Greater Manchester Local Authorities.

Didymus Fund

Aims/priorities: The aim of this fund is to support smaller charities who are working in the areas of social inclusion, education, the arts, equality and diversity, and religious understanding. The fund will enable charities to run projects and initiatives that build hope and enrichment of life for people who have been disadvantaged for whatever reason. 

The funding is for projects that fulfil at least one of the following goals:

Veterans' Foundation

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.

The funding can be used for projects covering a range of aspects of social care for the Armed Forces community, including but not limited to:

Malnutrition Awareness week 2021

Published date: 
Tuesday, 12th October 2021

Please help them raise awareness on the important subject of malnutrition in older age. This is something that unfortunately affects 1 in 10 older people in the UK and the figure is likely to be higher now due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

They have listed below many different ways you can get involved and make a difference during Malnutrition Awareness week. We hope you will be inspired!

Resources

Download any of their FREE resources on Nutrition and Hydration in older age here:

GM Mental Wellbeing: small grants

GMCVO are delivering a grants programme to support people from communities of identity or experience, based in Greater Manchester, that may struggle to achieve higher levels of mental wellbeing. 

Following the success of year 1 of the programme, a second year has been agreed which will build on the lessons learned and successful projects from the first year. You can find a full list of grants awarded in year 1 here.

The communities we want to reach in year 2 are:

Volunteer and Social Action Network

Published date: 
Tuesday, 5th October 2021

As you know Action Together are involved with a lot of Networks and we are constantly looking at attendance levels to see whether the current format is the best for that network .

We have noticed that the Volunteer and Social Action network has seen its numbers fall and so we are asking if you would fill out a little survey to see whether this network still has a value to all our members. To help you, this is the role of the VSAN :-

Faith New Deal Pilot Fund

Aims/priorities: The pilot fund has been designed to support faith-based organisations build on and expand the good work being carried out locally and to demonstrate the important role they play in tackling and responding to social challenges as the country moves into post COVID recovery and rebuilding of civil society. 

To be eligible, applicants must demonstrate how they will meet all the following strategic objectives:

Postcode Dream Trust - Dream Fund

Aims/priorities: The Fund is intended to give organisations the chance to deliver the project they have always dreamed of, but never had the opportunity to bring to life.

The Dream Fund is looking for projects that seek to implement systemic change in order to address an important social or environmental problem.

Systems change involves looking at problems in a macro context and understanding the entire ecosystem of that problem, in order to develop long-term solutions.

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