Community Hubs News

Funding for a GMCVO project that will provide support to new community energy enterprises in Greater Manchester has been approved by Defra.

Feasibility grants are available for organisations looking to research and develop a sustainable and entrepreneurial idea that meets social needs of their local community.

A map of buildings and land owned by public sector bodies in England is provided on the Communities and Local Government website.

The Localism Bill has received royal assent, granting new rights to communities to bid for land and run local authority services.

A renewable energy project in Greater Manchester has been shortlisted for the Energyshare fund – and now needs your support to help it win the competition.

Are you confident you have the best deals on your electricity and gas supply? Is your contract up for renewal but you don’t have the time to find quotes?

A public property map locating over 180,000 assets owned by almost 600 public sector bodies has been published by the Community and Local Government department.

Members of GMVSS’s Market Place scheme are being offered four months free rental of water vending machines.

A brief guide to how the Compact and other public authority duties can affect voluntary and community organisations that either rent or use council-owned premises, has been produced by the Empo

A set of online information guides and factsheets has been produced for the voluntary sector across Greater Manchester.

A £75 million community buildings grants programme for voluntary organisations and parish and town councils in England has been announced by the Big Lottery Fund (BLF).
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The September 2010 issue of The Combine Harvester for people involved in community places and spaces is out now.

Charity Builder UK (CBUK) is a new online service which has the potential to transform administrative tasks in your organisation.

GMCVO has received planning approval to build a £2 million extension to the St Thomas Centre.

Combine is the Community Buildings Information Network for Greater Manchester.

Local resource centres can apply for grants of up to £30,000 to make small scale improvements to their premises under a new round of the Capital Investment Programme run by Capacitybuilders.

Combine is The Community Buildings Information Network for Greater Manchester.

Scout groups, churches and amateur sports clubs have won their battle against the controversial ‘rain tax'.

The latest issue of The Combine Harvester is out now.

A new tool to help organisations improve and maintain a community facility, is currently being developed by GMCVO’s Community Hubs team.

A new advice line and website to promote the transfer of redundant land and property from local authorities to community groups was unveiled at the end of April.

Building Success is a free self-assessment toolkit for the development of community design/capital projects.

Community Hubs are delighted to be able to offer free training in marketing skills for GMVSS members and other local VCS groups.

Capacitybuilders has launched a £5 million capital grants programme to develop third sector resource centres in England.

 A free, web-based self-assessment toolkit to review the development of capital projects is being developed by GMCVO’s Community Hubs team.

COMBINE is the Community Buildings Network for Greater Manchester. At our first meeting marketing and PR was identified by those attending as an area where they would like more support.

Thursday 27th November 2008 10.30-3.00pm
Community Hubs @ GMCVO The St Thomas Centre, Manchester

COMBINE (The Greater Manchester Community Buildings Network) now has it's own free e-newsletter, The Combine Harvester.

Community Hubs @ GMCVO has undertaken research into peer support networks for community facility managers.