This session will build an understanding of how climate justice and racial justice intersect, and assess the barriers to climate engagement.
The effects of the climate crisis are vastly unequal and unevenly felt across different places and communities. We cannot achieve climate justice without dismantling the global model of extractivism that exploits racialised and marginalised communities.
Greater Manchester City-Region is supporting the One Tonne Plastic Challenge, a nation-wide initiative being led by Cheshire school boy, Thomas Morgan.
The aim of the challenge is to collect 1 tonne of plastic waste through litter picking to stop plastics from entering the waterways.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) are calling for all active community groups in the region to come together in their local litter hotspot and help to clean it up, whilst raising awareness of helping to make their environment litter and plastic free.
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.
Complete the Environmental, Social, and Governance maturity survey. Now in its second year this free tool enables charities and not-for-profit organisations to analyse and report on their organisation’s environmental, social and governance maturity. Eastside People are offering everybody who completes the survey the opportunity to receive a tailored confidential report for their organisation with benchmark data, an action plan, and a free consultation to take the next steps.
The 2025 edition of the ESG Survey is open until Friday 25th July 2025.
The Open Doors Project, established by The University of Manchester's Office for Social Responsibility in partnership with Manchester Museum, Alliance Manchester Business School and the Christabel Pankhurst Building, provides free meeting room space on the Oxford Road campus for community organisations. Bookings are available to voluntary and charity organisations, CICs and social enterprises, community groups, and residents’ associations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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