Health and Wellbeing

The GM Walking Festival Fund is designed to support walk organisers to deliver a walk as part of the GM Walking Festival in May 2024. Grants are for a maximum of £100.

The GM Walking Festival is a celebration of walking and an opportunity for everyone to join in with a programme of free, organised group walks across Greater Manchester.

Designed to honour outstanding work to improve lives and treatment for people with cancer in Greater Manchester, entries are invited from all over Greater Manchester (not just NHS organisations).

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Are you, or people you support, passionate about public services?

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman is looking for members of the public and advocacy professionals to join them for in-person Dilemma Café in Manchester on the afternoon of the 13 March.

Those attending will be asked to share their unique perspectives, opinions and views to help improve our work, and public services, for the better.

Health Equity is when everyone can reach their full health and wellbeing potential without unfair differences. Manchester City Council know from their research that some communities who already experience discrimination and disadvantage are also more likely to experience worse health outcomes.

Rainbow Haven are running:

A free Movement Women’s Group which includes: games, brisk walks, discussion about healthy eating and bodies, meal planning, and essential health information.

You will:

• Meet other women
• Explore the outdoors
• Build your confidence
• Play games
• Talk about food

The group is every Wednesday, 9.45am-11.30am, term-time

Wellbeing Workshops are starting soon at The Resonance Centre in East Manchester. The workshops are free to attend and a light meal is included. You can turn up on the day or pre register in advance here 

The workshops include:

Do you facilitate peer support? Would you like to be part of discussions and activities that will support both your group and others across Greater Manchester?

This free and informative workshop will help you to find and share creative ways to communicate, manage relationships and look after your wellbeing as a peer support facilitator.

Are you a creative practitioner from the global majority?*

Do you work in community, participatory and/or mental health and wellbeing settings?

Would you like support with your own wellbeing and practice?

Sign up for access to a new immersive audio story, Little Lungs, which explores indoor air quality, coproduced by people with lived experience of respiratory illness. The audio story will be released on 29 January. When you sign up via Eventbrite, you will receive: