Join Asthma + Lung UK, local community groups and artists for a creative day to explore how air pollution impacts our health, and how we can all tackle it.

For the first time, Asthma + Lung UK will be bringing the powerful exhibition This is Life + Breath: Stories of Toxic Air photographer Chris O’Donovan, to Manchester. The 10 striking portraits include local story-tellers Dave and teenager Maksim, two local citizens affected by toxic air.

Manchester Art Gallery (Ground Floor)

Shared Topic Areas

Environment

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Communicating Climate

Telling the right story on climate change is an essential part of driving the action that our world desperately needs. Are you struggling to get your climate message heard? Communicating Climate is here to help.

Now in its fifth year, this free six-month strategic communications programme is designed for UK-based charities and grassroots organisations working on climate justice, advocacy and community action.

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Environment

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Beyond behaviour change: making local environmental policy and action more inclusive

Behaviour change is central to discussions about achieving net zero and encouraging the adoption of the sustainable practices needed to get there. However, there are limits to focusing on individual behaviour change with a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach, and it is essential that decision-makers take social and cultural differences seriously.

The University of Manchester (room confirmed on registration)

Shared Topic Areas

Environment

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Movement for Good – Animals and Wildlife special draw

7 days 10 charities £5,000 each Animals and wildlife draw

7 days, 10 charities, £5,000 each – nominations open for seven days, from 17th-23rd February 2025. To support the incredible work that so many charities do to support animals and wildlife in need, Movement for Good’s first special draw of the year will award £5,000 each to 10 charities working in this area.

Important information about the draw

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Capacity Building

Digital

Environment

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The Future of the St Thomas Centre is Secured

We are pleased to say that the St Thomas Centre in Ardwick will continue to serve as a vital hub for voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in Greater Manchester. Following the closure of GMCVO, we can now announce that agreement has been reached for Macc to take over responsibility for the Centre, safeguarding this important resource for our sector.

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RHS Grow With It

Grow With It is a free national gardening programme by the Royal Horticultural Society, aiming to get people all over the country making small steps to get growing and connect with nature and others.

Not everyone has a garden or green spaces where they live – so RHS Grow With It is supporting people to grow, no matter what space you have available. This year, RHS are inviting people all over the country to grow a small space with BIG impact to benefit others in their neighbourhood – from people to pollinators.

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Environment

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Shape the future of Park Wood

Join Manchester City Council and Sow the City to share your ideas on how to improve Park Wood.

The aim of the event is to find out what you’d like to see and do in the woodland, whether that’s kids activities, conservation projects, planting trees and flowers or improving access.

Friends of the Earth and The Co-operative Bank have joined forces to bring back nature to some of the country’s most nature-deprived communities, through the Postcode Gardener programme.