With a closing date of 20 January there is just one week to go before the deadline for entering the Making a Difference Awards. The Making a Difference Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the many different types of social responsibility achievements of the...
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Making a Difference Awards
There’s still time to enter the Making a Difference Awards With a closing date of 21 January there are less than two weeks to go before the deadline for entering the Making a Difference Awards. The Making a Difference Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the many...
Call for UoM Community Festival 2019
Would you like to be part of the next University-wide Community Festival being held on Saturday 15 June 2019? As part of our commitment to enhancing our relationship with members of our local communities, we will be holding our annual University-wide Community...
Celebrating Community Action – Volunteer of the Year Awards now open!
Every year the University celebrates the actions of staff, students and alumni who give their time and commitment to communities locally, national and internationally through the Volunteer of the Year Awards. Previous nominees have taken on a wide range of roles to...
Do something amazing in your spare time: Independent Visitor Programme
Want to do something amazing in your spare time? Coram Voice are recruiting Independent Visitors to volunteer in Manchester and throughout the North West. “Independent Visitors” are to help young people in care to meet their full potential. You will be important to...
Invitation to contribute to JustFest 2016
Do you work on issues of social justice that you’d like to bring to the wider student audience? If so, you might be interested in contributing to JustFest 2016, the University of Manchester’s very own social justice festival, which takes place on March 9th, right here...
MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Deep Learning Day – Women in the World of Work – 8 December
On behalf of Whalley Range, our Business Class partner, I would like to invite you to be part of their Deep Learning Day on the 8 December. The learning objectives for the day and key words the girls will be hearing throughout the sessions are: To reflect on my goals,...
Training Opportunity – Beginners Guide to Evaluating Public Engagement – 30 November 2015
Beginner’s Guide to Evaluating Public Engagement 30 November 2015, 1.00 - 4.30pm Grand Hall, Whitworth Art Gallery Audience: Any member of academic or research staff from any discipline with little to no experience of evaluating public engagement activities. Do you...
MaD awards – including one for public engagement
The new Making a Difference Social Responsibility Awards have just been launched. The Making a Difference Awards will recognise and celebrate the many different types of social responsibility achievements of the University’s academic and professional support staff,...
Two new Academic Leads in Social Responsibility appointed
Two new Academic Leads have been appointed to help take forward key elements of the University’s social responsibility agenda Academic Lead for Environmental Sustainability Reporting to Professor James Thompson (Associate Vice-President for Social Responsibility),...
Would you like to become a Dementia Friend?
To find out more, book your place on one of the monthly information sessions between December 2014 and July 2015 Dementia Friends is a national initiative run by Alzheimer's Society and one of the University's social responsibility flagship programmes. Raising...
Dementia Friends Training session
Wednesday 10 September, 12-1pm, in the Jean McFarlane Building Making a Difference Dementia Friends is one of the University's Social Responsibility flagship programmes. Raising awareness of dementia is one very small step that we can all take to make a difference....
Make a Difference: Think Sustainability – help us shape this key programme
Make a difference by helping to shape a key University programme for environmental sustainability on Wednesday, 10 September 2014 from 12pm - 2pm Make a Difference: Think Sustainability is an exciting new programme that will be taken by every single member of staff in...
10 minutes of your time to support research into social responsibility by MBS
10 minutes of your time to support research into social responsibility by MBS As socially-responsible-minded colleagues, we hoped you would take 10 minutes to complete a quick online survey that has been developed in MBS. As part of the PG research the survey is...
Did you volunteer for the University on 16 May – National Day of Volunteering (Give and Gain Day)?
You may be aware that 16 May was National Day of Volunteering and that the University contributed by participating in ‘Give and Gain Day’. This is an initiative organised by Business in the Community (BiTC)* that encourages employers to target staff volunteering...
Volunteering Opportunity: Independent visitor scheme
Want to do something amazing in your spare time? Manchester Children’s Rights are recruiting Independent Visitors to volunteer in Manchester and throughout the North West. “Independent Visitors” are to help young people in care to meet their full potential. You will...
Social Responsibility in the Curriculum – celebration event
Following a Social Responsibility Flagship Call in 2011, the Humanities External Relations Committee (HERC) funded initiatives in Humanities under the theme of ‘Social Responsibility in the Curriculum’. Any course unit leader of a level 2 or 3 UG course in Humanities...
Help shape the future of our Social Responsibility Work
You are invited to help to shape the University’s work on its social responsibility agenda – Goal Three of the Manchester 2020 Strategic Plan. The aim of Goal Three is to ensure that the University contributes to the social and economic success of the local, national...
Social Responsibility and Volunteer of the Year Awards 2013
Have you set up a community project? Do you run a festival? Are you a mentor or befriender to a child or a vulnerable person? Do you give your time to a local community group? Many students, alumni and staff give their personal time and energy helping undertake public...
Reclaim Project: Mentors Wanted
The RECLAIM project is looking for male mentors to work on it’s new project in Salford. RECLAIM is a multiple award winning leadership and mentoring project based in Manchester. The project empowers young people across the North West to make positive changes in their...
Making a difference: Social responsibility flagships unveiled
The University’s contribution to society on a local, national and international level is now being showcased by six flagship projects. The projects have been chosen from a shortlist of 23, to highlight the work we do that affects people from across campus; in...