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Catalyst is a dynamic and exciting programme offering free training to young people of diverse faiths and backgrounds who are between 16 to 26 year of age. The programme equips young people with the skills and confidence to take on leadership roles, develop local social action and transform their own communities.

Manchester's Community Safety Strategy Consultation has now started. The Community Safety Partnership is consulting with residents, visitors and people who work in the city. The Community Safety Partnership would like your views on Community Safety in our city.

On their website you can find information, including crime statistics and a few examples of work undertaken by the Community Safety Partnership over the last four years. The Partnership would really like your views on what you would like them to focus on for the 2018 - 2021 Community Safety Strategy.

In the first autumn newsletter you will find an article by Debbie Abrahams MP about the Oldham Fairness Commission, their first regular GM Living Wage Campaign column, a report on the different approaches to employment support in the UK and France, plus information about World Suicide Prevention Day and the support that is available in Greater Manchester.

The Walk for Change brings together hundreds of young people every year, marching together, demanding a greater voice in our society.

The event aims to inspire young people across Greater Manchester to recognise their own power as social change leaders and the power they have when they come together.