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Cancer is a subject that doesn’t bear thinking about and yet 900,000+ people in the workforce are preoccupied with it. They are living with cancer and 28% of them say they have had little or no support from their employer. (Source Macmillan Cancer Support - The Forgotten C)
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Salford City Council would like to know your feedback about your journey and how it could be improved, or what changes you'd like to see to encourage you to use the bus as your main mode of transport.
We would love to hear from anyone who lives in the area or who travels there for work, education, leisure or any other reason.
Whether you drive, walk, cycle or use public transport to travel to, from or between Salford Crescent and MediaCityUK, your views will help influence the improvements we make along this route.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has approved the implementation of a landmark Fair Funding Protocol that ‘will cover activities and services that the VCFSE sector carries out in communities that are funded by the GMCA’s budget in Greater Manchester’.
In response to requests from our network Greater Manchester Poverty Action is pleased to invite you to book on to our new open training courses.
Are you an adult who provides unpaid care for another adult with care and support needs who lives in Salford?
The Salford Safeguarding Adults Board, or ‘SSAB’, work to promote the wellbeing, security and safety of adults with care and support needs in Salford. They are currently holding their first ever ‘Voice of the Carer’ survey and would love to hear from you!
Autistic people offer employers both a new pool of talent, and a greater diversity of thought within a workforce and teams. That is the message of two new guides launched in Greater Manchester.
Local social enterprise, Unlimited Potential, has published Fulfilling Your Potential – a guide for autistic people – and Untapped Potential – a guide for local employers.
New Social Investment fund for organisations and social businesses looking to grow
GMCVO have launched a new social investment fund for organisations and businesses working in Greater Manchester who are trading for social good and looking to grow.
They are working in a unique partnership with the Greater Manchester Credit Union Consortium, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Access – The Foundation for Social Investment and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to deliver local investment with real impact, in communities where the need is highest.
Vaccinations will once again be available to people at highest risk of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) following a small increase in the number of cases in Greater Manchester. Vaccination has played a crucial role in protecting people and reducing the number of people infected. Case numbers have remained low since December 2022.
People who are eligible for a mpox vaccine include:
The Bee Network have been busy getting everything in place for the first phase of Bus Franchising launched on 24th September in Bolton, Wigan, and parts of Bury, Manchester and Salford. You can now:
In 2022, Salford CVS awarded grants of up to £25,000 to VCSE sector organisations in Salford to invest in resources that would continue to benefit their organisation and community for many years to come, or to pilot an innovative project linked to Salford’s Great Eight. Social, economic and environmental sustainability had to be at the heart of their ‘big idea’.
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