In The News - Local
Greater Manchester has kicked off development on a new plan designed to help nature recover across the city-region, following confirmation of funding from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Greater Manchester Combined Authority has been allocated around £250,000 to develop its Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) over the next two years, building on the city-region’s successful LNRS pilot which concluded in September 2021.
The Big Conversation: how your voice influenced the Greater Manchester (GM) Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) five year plan
When the GM ICP started to develop the five year strategy for health and care, they wanted to make sure people and communities had the chance to be involved. A Big Conversation took place which was led by the VCSE sector in GM. This enabled us to reach deep into communities and involve underserved and inclusion health groups to find out what matters most to them.
- City to receive almost £750,000 funding from Arts Council England
- Funding received following a bid from Salford Culture and Place Partnership, led by Salford City Council
- Funding will enable planning for a three-year programme of creative activities across the city
- Events to be hosted in the city’s parks, gardens and high streets
- Plans follow on from success of ‘We Invented the Weekend’ event in June
We are delighted that we have been awarded the Third Sector Champion Award at the 2023 Living Champion Awards for our commitment to advancing the real Living Wage within the sector!
“Winning the Third Sector Champion Award is testament to the leadership of our Chief Executive, Alison Page, who first pushed for accreditation as a Living Wage Employer in 2013, followed by becoming a Living Wage Funder in 2018. Alison also played a major role in Salford becoming the UK’s first Living Wage City in 2019.
Shaping Our Lives is a non-profit, user-led organisation working for the inclusive involvement of Disabled people and people from other seldom heard groups. They are looking to involve people with lived experience in shaping their service design and delivery to ensure that their services are inclusive and accessible.
The Green Social Prescribing Toolkit, a detailed document created by NHS England and Natural England, is now live and on the NASP website.
The Green Social Prescribing Toolkit is designed to help communities, organisations and health professionals who are looking to set up green social prescribing programmes that connect with local health systems.
We are delighted to inform you that Salford CVS has recently achieved the Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation (VCQA), demonstrating the quality of their offer and impact in supporting local voluntary, community and social enterprises across Salford. Accreditation is awarded for three years, and is provided following independent assessment of a portfolio of evidence provided against a set of criteria based around the Five Functions of Volunteer Centres.
Funded until March 2021, Wellbeing Matters is led by Salford CVS, the support organisation for the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
Wellbeing Matters includes a social prescribing approach which links statutory health and care services to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
The aim is to support people to connect to local community assets to support their wellbeing and independence, reducing the need for intervention by health and care services.
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