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Evidence of poverty invited by MPs’ commission

Individuals and organisations from across Greater Manchester are invited to submit their experiences of poverty to a newly-formed commission set up to examine the extent and impact of poverty in th

Does your organisation support young children and families?

Greater Manchester is one of four areas in the country piloting a ‘whole place’ Community Budget approach.

Creative Interviewing for Research

GMCVO is hosting Katherine Davies from the Morgan Centre for a practical session on creative research techniques.

Thursday, 14 June 2012

Working with the Grassroots

By applying lessons from the past, this policy seminar will look at what would work in supporting grassroots activity during a period of financial austerity.

Thursday, 28 June 2012

NOMS co-financing opportunity

Are you a social enterprise based in Greater Manchester and interested in delivering public services under contract?

Charity Law Update Seminar

This free charity law seminar, run by law firm Brabners Chaffe Street, will cover the Charities Act 2011, the Charitable Incorporated Organisation, the recent structural changes at the Charity Comm

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

GMCVO among Greater Manchester groups awarded Lottery extension funding

GMCVO has been awarded funding of over £162,000 from the Big Lottery Fund under its Supporting Change and Impact programme.

Voluntary sector's capacity to rehabilitate offenders is highlighted in GMCVO study

As part of our work to better understand voluntary sector provision in Greater Manchester, GMCVO has been working to map the services of a range of charities, voluntary organisations and social ent

Wigan Local Authority Puts Out Healthwatch Tender

Wigan Local Authority his calling for Exprersions of Interest (EoI) for a tender to support the development of the local Healthwatch.

New market opens up in Greater Manchester

A phased programme of work that will take Greater Manchester’s voluntary sector into a new market was launched by GMCVO on 24th January.

Prizes for survival stories

Case studies of how voluntary and community groups from across the North West are adjusting to the new environment are invited by the Listen Value Invest campaign.

ERDF boost for loan finance to community enterprises in the North West

The Social Enterprise Loan Fund (TSELF) wants to hear from social/community enterprises in the North West with innovative business ideas after being awarded money by the European Regional Developme

Local Volunteer Centres hit quality mark

A partnership of Volunteer Centres (VCs) in Greater Manchester has recently achieved the Volunteering England quality standard (VCQA) for its partner centres in Bury, Oldham, Salford, Tameside and

'Delivering Better Transport' seminar series starts Wednesday 5th October

The 2011/12 series kicks off this Wednesday 5th of October, 17:30 in the Samuel Alexander building of the University off Oxford Road.

Influencing the New Health System in the Local Area

This briefing, aims to help local voluntary and community organisations navigate their way through the NHS reforms.

New 2011 Health Profiles are now available

Health Profiles is the Department of Health’s programme to improve availability and accessibility to heath and health-related information in England.

Issues 28 – Building Marketplaces

Articles look at how models of collaboration can help create 'marketplaces' within which voluntary sector providers and commissioners can trade.

Work Programme gets underway in Greater Manchester

The delivery of the Work Programme for Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington has been awarded to three prime contractors (Avanta, G4S and Seetec) and began to go live from 1st June 2011.

Giving plans aim to boost charitable donations and volunteering

The Government has announced a £10 million Social Action Fund as part of its white paper on giving, published on 23rd May.

New factsheets for Greater Manchester’s voluntary sector

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

Market Place project chooses HR provider

The GMVSS Market Place project, based at GMCVO, has selected Roots Human Resources CIC as its preferred supplier for human resources services.

Managing Through Change

This course is aimed at staff facing organisational change where it impacts on their role, their management and/or their beneficiaries.

Map of voluntary sector funding cuts

An online map showing the extent of the public sector funding cuts to the voluntary sector has been set up.

Online Services Directory to be promoted to new GP Consortia

The Greater Manchester online directory of voluntary sector services (see link below) is ready to be widely publicised to the new GP consortia.

Big Health Day a Big Success

Presentations from Big Health Day now available to download.

Cuts to Greater Manchester councils above average

The average loss in spending power for local councils in Greater Manchester will be 6.39 per cent in 2011-12, compared to the national average reduction of 4.4 per cent.

Localism Bill published

Proposals which seek to shift power from central Government into the hands of individuals, communities and councils, were published on 13th December.

Issues 26 – Transport in Greater Manchester

A look at some of the key transport issues in Greater Manchester – focusing on the Local Transport Plan, community transport and the impact of the new sub-regional structures.

Towpath success

The involvement of a project which supported small groups to build the confidence and skills of unemployed adults from the most disadvantaged and excluded communities has been hailed a “valua

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