Environment

The Open Doors Project (free room booking)   

The Open Doors Project is a pilot scheme established by the Office for Social Responsibility in collaboration with Manchester Museum and Alliance Manchester Business School. The scheme allows community members to book meeting rooms totally free-of-charge on the Oxford Road campus. These room bookings are open to voluntary and charity organisations, CICs and social enterprises, community groups, and residents’ associations.

Green Participatory Budgeting Organisers Network

Shared Future CIC are looking for expressions of interest in joining their new Green Participatory Budgeting Organisers project.

Shared Future CIC has funding from the Network For Social Change Charitable Trust (NSCCT) to establish mentoring, advice and support for a new network of Green Participatory Budgeting Organisers.

Shared Future CIC are focussing on England, especially the north for the moment, but open to anyone who want to take their climate policy work to another level.

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Environmental Justice in partnership – Manchester

Join Friends of the Earth free workshop to explore the shared drivers of social and environmental harm – and build local links across sectors to tackle them.

Many voluntary and community sector organisations have a really good understanding of ‘multiple deprivation’ (i.e. how poverty, poor housing, insecure or low paid jobs and lack of access to services combine and impact on people) but less knowledge about how this links to our environment.

Friends' Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS
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National Trust's Sky Gardening Challenge 2025

Let's green Greater Manchester's Skyline together. Help nature thrive from your balcony or window box.

So whether you’re a gardening novice or a planting pro – if you have a balcony or window box, you can green the city above the ground. The sky really is the limit.

That’s why National Trust are encouraging Greater Manchester residents to welcome nature into their skyline space. To help nature bloom on every balcony.  

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Our Manchester Strategy 2025-35 launched

To develop the new Our Manchester strategy, Manchester City Council listened to over 10,000 voices across Manchester to shape a future we can all be proud of.

Over the next 10 years, they will be focusing on the 12 key priorities residents said mattered most – Our People, Our Neighbourhoods, Our City.

Challenging UK Climate Politics with Green New Deal Rising

Join Media Trust for a one-hour Communicating Climate masterclass with Green New Deal Rising, a youth movement championing climate justice across the UK. In their latest campaign, “There’s No Growth on a Dead Planet,” they challenge the government’s climate policies, emphasising that true economic growth cannot occur without a healthy planet.

Key topics include:

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Environmental crisis communications strategies with Edelman

Are you a small charity looking for support in navigating environmental issues and concerns?

Join Media Trust’s series of free interactive drop in clinics for charities with global PR and communications agency Edelman.

How does it work?
Each hour-long drop-in session will focus on a different communications strategy topic.

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