Over a quarter of a million pounds is to be pulled from funding for playgrounds and parks across Manchester. Following the coalition’s spending review, Education secretary Michale Gove withdrew £252,000 in grants to the Council under the Playbuilder scheme – while the rest is no longer to be ringfenced. Consequently the remaining £380,000 designated for […]
With central funding for local government due to be cut by 28%, welfare recipients face tough times ahead. The City Council has estimated that at current levels of benefit claimants, benefit payments in the city could be reduced by £62 million from 2014. All hopes for avoiding an increase in poverty as a result are […]
Campaigners against the expansion of Manchester Airport took a 12 foot inflatable elephant to the city council’s Climate Change Action Plan stakeholder conference on Tuesday 30 November. Members of Manchester Climate Action were highlighting the omission of the airport from the council’s climate strategy – the ‘elephant in the room’.
Anti-cuts protestors will target a number of locations in Manchester city centre this Saturday 4 December as part of a national day of action which aims to highlight corporate responsibility for the coalition government’s public sector cuts.
Residents of Salford are being urged to protest outside a meeting which will decide the fate of the Maternity Unit. Despite a petition signed by 55,000 people in the city the indications are that the health authority will act on recommendations to close the unit – meaning that no more babies will be born in […]
A call to action on Tuesday November 30 has been launched by university and college students as the struggle against tuition fees and cuts to education builds.
MULE are looking to recruit two new members to our team – read here for more information.
