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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

ICT Enterprise Officer (Technical)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Presentations from Big Health Day now available to download.

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.

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

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