Manchester City Council cuts: Mental health, homeless and children in care targeted as options in clawback of £59m
Manchester City Council revealed details this morning of options available to address a funding shortfall of £59million citywide.
Manchester Sleepout volunteer: We’ll brave one night in cold to help those who sleep rough for years
People across Manchester will sleep rough for one night as part of a fund raising event for homeless charity organisation The Booth Centre
Food for thought: Rochdale teens tackle homelessness with £4 a day initiative
Teenagers in Rochdale are attempting to raise awareness of homelessness – by suggesting people across Greater Manchester try to live on just £4 a day.
Manchester Cathedral to host charity sleepover to raise money for the homeless
Manchester Booth Centre hopes to highlight some of the hardships that homeless people have to face every day
Lifeline for Manchester’s homeless as employment initiative gets them off streets and into jobs
Trio of charities form Employment Task Group and extend a helping hand to get Manchester’s homeless off the streets and into jobs with employment initiative
Precarious existence of Palestinians symbolised by ‘floating village’ in Manchester art exhibition
A floating ‘village’ of boxes will be just one of two major art installations depicting those affected by the Gaza conflict in Manchester this weekend.
Manchester’s homeless create Matchbox City art project to challenge perception of life on streets
Community artists reach out to Manchester’s homeless with Matchbox City art project to explore notions of home and place within a city and raise awareness
Manchester identified as city ‘at risk’ of suicide after WHO reveals someone takes their own life every 40 seconds
Manchester is one of the cities most ‘at risk’ from suicide claims Public Health England as the World Health Organisation revealed that someone takes their own life every 40 seconds.
Homeless man attacked and robbed of just £1.30 as he slept rough in Manchester – two men charged
Two men have been charged after a homeless man was attacked and robbed of just £1.30 in Manchester city centre on Wednesday.
Classical singer sues GMP after PCSO uses ‘aggressive begging’ law to stop him performing Pavarotti in Sale
Professional flautist and singer Barry Jackson, 48, was singing Luciano Pavarotti arias and playing music in a shopping precinct when the female community officer ordered him to move on saying he was a ‘beggar and a vagrant’ and was causing an obstruction.
Barking up the right tree: Manchester homeless charity gifted building by Pets At Home founder
Manchester homeless charity Mustard Tree continues to grow after gaining ownership of the Ancoats building they have rented for the last nine years, courtesy of Pets At Home founder Anthony Preston.