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Our Future – Life Skills Support Programme
The Our Future programme helps young people with learning disabilities and/or autism build everyday life skills. It includes group and one-to-one sessions covering topics like confidence, digital safety, relationships, health, budgeting, and travel. You may be eligible if you're aged 17 and a half or older and live in the Manchester City Council area.
To find out more, contact your social worker, the Manchester City Council Contact Centre, or call Pure Innovations on 0161 804 4400 and ask for the Our Future team.
You can also email OurFuture@pureinnovations.co.uk
Business Support - Strangeways & Cambridge Street Area
Are you a business based in the Strangeways or Cambridge Street area? Discover the wide range of fully funded support available to help your business grow and thrive.
Book a one-to-one appointment to explore:
- Access to business finance and expert mentoring
- Strategies for growth and workforce development
- Fully funded training, including digital and online skills
- Opportunities to connect with other local businesses
- Free access to market and consumer research databases
- Guidance on navigating changes from the Strategic Regeneration Framework
Appointments are available in person or via Microsoft Teams.
To book your session, or for more information,
please email: strangeways@manchester.gov.uk
Digishawe Booklet
This useful resource has been created by the 'Digishawe' network, a small partnership group creating initiatives to help Wythenshawe residents get online and access digital support in the local area.
Digishawe Booklet: Helping residents to get online
GM Get Online: A Guide to Digital Support Offers for Disabled People
This booklet from GMCA is packed with information about different organisations across Greater Manchester offering a range of online support; most of which is free or at a reduced cost.
Get Online Greater Manchester: A Guide to Digital Support Offers for Disabled People (greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk)
Government funded childcare launching April 2024 and an expansion of Before and After School provision for working parents from September 2024.
Childcare Choices: Get the help that fits your family, so you can juggle work and life
Thousands of families could be saving money on their childcare costs. But some simply don’t know what support they might be eligible for.
The Childcare Choices website brings together all the existing childcare offers in one place, so parents can get the help that fits their family. This could be through Tax-Free Childcare, 30 Hours Childcare, or Universal Credit Childcare. Some families might be eligible to use more than one childcare scheme together and get the most out of it.
And from next year even more help is on the way:
- From September 2024, the 15 hours childcare offer was expanded to eligible working parents in England with children between 9 and 23 months old.
- From September 2025, eligible working parents in England with children between 9 months up to school age will have access to 30 hours childcare.
Support is also expanding for primary-school aged children – from September 2024, parents are expected to see an expansion in the availability of childcare in their local area before and after school, between 8am and 6pm, also known as ‘wraparound care’.
Don’t miss out on getting the support you are entitled to. Visit the Childcare Choices website to check what offer you might be eligible for and sign up to their newsletter to get the latest updates about the childcare support expansion.
Manchester Active
Grant funding for children and young people’s cycling activity
As part of the Manchester European Capital of Cycling, Manchester Active is pleased to announce the Manchester Active small grant programme is now live!
Manchester Active is offering small grants of up to £500 to community groups to engage children and young people between the ages of 6 to 16 years in cycling, including putting on events and activities.
The delivery period is between now and the end of December 2025.
Please note the funding is for cycling delivery within the Manchester City Council area.
Smartworks | Supporting Women into Work
Smart Works is a UK charity that exists to empower all women who need help getting into work.
They support unemployed women aged 16+ into work by providing free, high-quality clothing and personalised 1-1 coaching services.
They work across all Boroughs of Greater Manchester, delivering appointments in the Centres in Stockport and Manchester, and they also offer virtual appointments.
Do you need an interview outfit or more understanding of your interview?
Find out more about their employment support here: Smartworks Employment Support
or reach out to the team on:
tel. 0161 974 0669
email. greatermanchester@smartworks.org.uk
View Dorcas story, hear how Smart Works supported her with an interview outfit and improved her confidence ready for interview. Video for clients - Dorcas' story
To arrange an appointment, Smart Works work on a referral basis. An organisation supporting you to find work can get in touch with the Smart Works team to make a referral, e.g., Job Centres, Ingeus, other employment services you may be working with or other support services you may be accessing. You can also reach out to your local library to make a referral.
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