Join to hear from Nature Neighbourhoods projects and others about community-led greening, learn how to strengthen your impact through inspirational speakers and case studies, and start to plan your next steps through practical workshops and resources.
In this session, Utility Aid will share the range of support and services available
Ever wondered what bin to use? Do you feel you have one too many bins? Recycle for Greater Manchester have launched a quick survey to understand how everyone recycles, what works, what gets in the way, and what would make it easier.
If you live in Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside or Trafford we want your opinions. Although part of Greater Manchester, Wigan has its own waste disposal so this survey will not be relevant to Wigan residents.
Access funding to empower your local community to take climate action and support Manchester to become the world’s first Carbon Literate City.
Carbon Literacy® training is one proven and reliable tool for delivering action to cut carbon emissions and improve the health and prosperity of our communities in the process.
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.