Health and Wellbeing

Caritas Big Sleep Out 2026

Sleep under the stars to raise money for local families and individuals experiencing homelessness.

This event has always been a popular part of the Caritas Salford calendar, and after a rest year or two, we are pleased to be running an in-person event once again.

So, dust off your sleeping bag, and get ready to wrap up warm, whilst we spend the night in the great outdoors for a great cause.

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Old Bedians Sports Centre, Millgate Lane, Didsbury, Manchester, M20 5QX

GM Moving: Trauma Informed Approaches to Sport and Physical Activity

Learn how trauma-informed approaches can create safer, more supportive, and inclusive environments in sport and physical activity.

This training session explores how adopting a trauma-informed approach can help create safer, more inclusive, and supportive sporting environments for young people and adults. Participants will gain a better understanding of trauma, its impact on behaviour, wellbeing, and participation in sport, and how coaches, volunteers, and clubs can respond positively and effectively.

Online

Ann Craft Trust: From Values to Practice - Building Person-Centred Safeguarding Adults Policy & Procedures

This workshop encourages discussion, reflection and critical thinking to enhance your safeguarding adults policy and procedures is fit for purpose.

Developed through the lens of those with lived-experience, this workshop focuses on the fundamentals of developing an effective policy and the accompanying procedures and applying a values-based approach.

Date: Thursday 30 July 2026
Time: 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Location: Online
Price: £99 per person

Online

Ann Craft Trust: Safeguarding Adults Level 3 Training for Managers and Designated Safeguarding Leads (2 days)

This online course will explore the roles and responsibilities of managers in terms of safeguarding adults at risk.

We’ll look at the key changes within safeguarding as part of the Care Act. You’ll be encouraged to identify where the challenges are, and to seek solutions towards implementation in practice.

We’ll cover best practice, the expectations of regulators, and the lessons we learned from our safeguarding adults reviews.

Online

Common Ground

Common Ground is a free community wellbeing programme for adults aged 21-40 across Greater Manchester, delivered by Roots and Resilience Therapies CIC and funded by The National Lottery Awards for All.

Common Ground offers small, facilitated group sessions in accessible community spaces, designed to reduce social isolation and support emotional wellbeing. The programme is psychologically informed but intentionally non-clinical – built around connection, shared experience and early support, rather than diagnosis or treatment.

We’re recruiting a Live Well Manager

Manchester Community Central (Macc) is playing a central role in the development of Live Well Manchester – the city’s commitment to shifting investment from crisis response to prevention, building community resilience and strengthening the relationship between public services and communities. Alongside our existing funded programmes – the Live Well Communities Fund and the Spaces of Hope programme – Macc has secured Implementation Fund support to build the connective infrastructure that holds the city’s Live Well approach together.

PMAC: Breaking the Silence – Starting Conversations About Menopause at Work

Talking about menopause can be anxiety-provoking, and that doesn’t mean we’re doing it wrong! This session will build your confidence in having honest, supportive conversations.

Join PMAC for this webinar to: 

• Understand why menopause can be a difficult topic in the workplace
• Learn how to start sensitive conversations with empathy
• Build confidence in offering support and signposting appropriately

Online

PMAC: The importance of boundaries for managers

Always available? Always exhausted? Learn how healthy boundaries make you a better manager — and a happier human!

Join PMAC for this webinar to:

  • Understand what boundaries are and why they matter for managers
  • Learn how to protect your time, energy, and emotional capacity
  • Explore how setting healthy boundaries models wellbeing to teams
Online

Greater Manchester Regional Care Cooperative (GM RCC) – Health offer webinar

Join Greater Manchester Regional Care Cooperative (GM RCC) for this webinar to learn more about the developing health model supporting children and young people across Greater Manchester. The session will explore how GM RCC) are working collaboratively with partners to build a consistent, trauma‑informed and clinically‑led health offer that responds to need, manages risk, and improves outcomes.

Online
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Roots of Resistance: A walk through history with forgotten feminist Rosa Grindon Mural of Rosa Grindon

The Roots of Resistance, organised by the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender and Identity Knowledge Network, an interdisciplinary centre for critically engaged feminist research, will explore the intersection of feminism, public green spaces, and the role of plants in shaping memory and identity. It centres on the legacy of Rosa Grindon, a suffragist, botanist, and Shakespearean lecturer, and uses her story as a lens to reflect on women’s lives are remembered.

The event is free and open to everyone, and will consist of a walking tour of the Shakespeare Garden and a workshop.

The Shakespearean Garden, Platt Fields Park, Manchester, M14 6LA