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Film highlights value of youth work

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Seven inspiring young people from across the country are sharing their stories of how youth work has transformed their lives as part of a national campaign mounted by the National Youth Agency to raise awareness of the impact of youth work on young people’s lives. The Youth Work in all places and spaces film has […]

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Categories Fundraising

Big Give raises money for charities supporting women and girls

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Big Give, the UK’s most successful charity match funding platform, concluded its Women & Girls campaign last month successfully raising £1.2 million.

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Winter support kit launched for those in poverty

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This year the Big Issue Winter Support Kit will give vendors help with immediate winter needs, plus training and employment opportunities to help them beyond Christmas.

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Categories Health & Social CareReal VoicesRecent

‘Treat your body with respect’: Meet the 80-year-olds sharing their heartwarming secrets to self confidence to inspire next generation

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Residents at Brookwater House in London have shared their heartwarming secrets to finding self-confidence to inspire younger generations. 

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Categories Community

£125,000 to help those in poverty and isolation this winter

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As winter draws closer one of the UK’s largest grant-making charities, Benefact Trust, has awarded an additional grant of £125,000 to Warm Welcome to help those struggling with poverty and isolation around the UK.  With more than 14.4 million people living in poverty in the UK, and a further 7 million experiencing chronic loneliness, the […]

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Categories CommunityCultureReal VoicesRecentSociety

Man with learning disabilities inspires others through art

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How a learning disabled man from Shropshire is channelling his passions for art into helping other adults with learning disabilities.

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Categories HousingRecent

Campaigns unite to call for emergency energy bills support

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The energy bills crisis is now predicted to be so severe that a wide range of health, poverty, housing and environmental organisations and academics have written to Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt MP, to request the introduction of an Emergency Energy Tariff. The Emergency Energy Tariff would use the existing Energy Price Guarantee mechanism to fix the […]

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Categories CommunityHousingRecentSociety

£25k raised as 75 people bed down on Leeds Street for charity sleep-out

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Seventy-five people braved Storm Babet to sleep out on the streets of Leeds for a local homelessness charity, helping to raise almost £25,000.

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Over 10,000 people will benefit from local funding in disadvantaged areas

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UK Community Foundations is working alongside Arts Council England and Historic England to fund 167 organisations to create additional volunteering activities across the country.

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Categories EducationRecent

Plan launched to grow engineering and technology apprenticeships for young people 

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Former Labour and Conservative ministers Lord Knight and Lord Willetts, with support from charity EngineeringUK, have launched an ambitious new plan for growing and sustaining engineering and technology apprenticeships for young people.   Recognising the critical importance of engineering and technology for the UK and the sector’s growing workforce needs, the new report is the […]

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