The festival will be opened by challenging leaders to think boldly about how they thrive through complexity, uncertainty and constant change. Designed with executives in mind, this session equips participants to lead with clarity and impact in high-pressure environments.
Are you passionate about making Manchester fairer? Manchester City Council are looking for four Manchester residents who care about tackling poverty to help shape and support the city’s new Anti-Poverty Strategy. Successful applicants will join the Anti-Poverty Insight Group to share their views and experiences and make sure the voices of people living on low incomes are heard.
Manchester Art Gallery, the Pride in Ageing programme at LGBT Foundation and Dementia Disco invite you to a relaxed Sunday-afternoon celebration of music, memory and LGBTQ+ communities to mark Manchester Village Pride weekend.
An exhibition created with people who have lived experience of mental health challenges, plus a live panel and audience discussion. Through striking photography, powerful visual storytelling, and good conversation, the event aims to spark dialogue, challenge stigma and promote greater understanding.
The exhibition explores themes relating to mental health and lived experience. Some content includes sensitive and emotional subject matter that some visitors may find distressing.
The Outdoor Collaborative (TOC) is set to launch its Youth Ambassador Programme 2026 – 2027, aimed at recruiting people across Greater Manchester to help support young people in our local communities: improving their mental and physical wellbeing and helping them build a better connection to community life.
About the Youth Ambassador Programme
Join Resolve Poverty for a free 1 hour and 30 minutes webinar exploring how to use poverty data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action.
Understand our social security system and the financial support available to help people find and access what they're entitled to
What you’ll learn:
Understand what data tells us about poverty in the UK, how to find this data and how to use it to build effective responses to poverty
What you’ll learn:
George House Trust: Positive Ambition Manchester – Free and Accessible Training for the VCSE Sector
What is Positive Ambition Manchester?
Positive Ambition Manchester is an ambitious new project, aimed at eradicating HIV stigma and discrimination in Manchester. The project will combine a programme of external education and training for the VCSE sector, alongside activism and campaigning, to create a fairer and stigma-free Manchester.
Why is this work important?
Gaddum are collaborating with Manchester Community Central to ensure that people living with Long Term Health Conditions are heard, valued and actively shaping services across Greater Manchester.
Our next focus group will be about and for people from the Global Majority*
*Those who identify as Black, Asian, Brown or have Dual-Heritage