In Episode 2 of Meet the Mancunian Season 9, host Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe chats with Spirit of Manchester Award winner Josh Deegan!
Josh shares his journey from volunteer to community hero, using fitness and sports to bring people together in Wythenshawe. Happy Somedays now offers free activities, from football to festivals, for all ages and abilities.
Nearly 500 people from across Greater Manchester came together to talk about growing community power and decision making at the third event in the Live Well movement building series. The event harnessed the strength and creativity of the GM Live Well movement as public services move towards a powerful ambition to further transform neighbourhood working towards prevention. Live Well is Greater Manchester's commitment to everyday support in every neighbourhood, changing how we work with communities and in public services to grow opportunities for everyone to Live Well.
The Royal Society for Public Health and Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership have developed a new mental health and wellbeing online course for anyone working / living in Greater Manchester.
This one-hour course encourages us all to take a proactive approach to caring for our mental health and wellbeing through simple steps that are proven to work.
Complaining can be complicated. If you work in the voluntary and civil society sector, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman want to equip you with the skills to help people navigate the process.
Join a free 90-minute online workshop which will explain:
Hear from Feeding Britain partners who will share their good practice on food supplies for affordable food clubs with a particular focus on fresh fruit and veg as well as bulk purchasing and culturally appropriate food.
The webinar will be taking place on Zoom.
You are welcome to join at any point once the webinar has started and it will be recorded for anyone who cannot make it. You can use this form to sign up to receive a copy of the recording.
This training package is for researchers who want to break stereotypes around addiction and recovery, centre family experiences, and create research that truly matters.
Co-produced with parents with lived experience, our audio story and insights are designed to support you in creating meaningful and impactful research that leads to rich and diverse outcomes.
Join the GM Live Well Team to collaborate on the next GM Live Well event taking place in March 2025. This in-person event will focus on ‘everyday support in every neighbourhood’ for health creation, social connection and economic inclusion.
This session is an opportunity to shape the next system wide Live Well event right from the beginning! The team want this event to elevate the work you are already leading around everyday support across GM, as well as looking at solutions to some of the systems barriers you are facing in growing your approaches.
NHS Greater Manchester and Greater Manchester Combined Authority are leading a partnership with public services, health and social care providers, cultural and voluntary organisations, universities and residents to create lasting ways for creativity and culture to be at the heart of communities’ health and wellbeing.
The Creative Health GM Place Partnership is part of Live Well: Greater Manchester’s shared commitment to everyday support in every neighbourhood, changing how we work with communities and in public services to grow opportunities for everyone to Live Well.
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