Health and Wellbeing

GM Walking Festival 2025

Manchester Active is teaming up with GM Moving to promote the Greater Manchester Walking Festival 2025, which takes place through all of May. The festival celebrates the joys and many benefits of walking and wheeling – including for people’s health and wellbeing.

They would love your fantastic walks to be included in the festival, Manchester had an amazing 70 walks in last year’s festival.

BHA for equality – translated resources on sexual health

BHA for equality have developed different resources in multiple languages on health, sexual health and wellbeing for individuals and professionals supporting them. The resources include a wealth of informative and engaging content, including videos, toolkits, and reports. These materials cover a wide range of topics related to health, from infectious diseases to health conditions to mental health. Our aim is to provide a set of resources that addresses the unique challenges faced by people of colour in the UK and beyond.

Shaping co-production together

Last spring and summer, NHS Greater Manchester and partners from the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) held a series of workshops to explore building a shared culture of co-production. These sessions kick-started important conversations about what co-production means and how to achieve consistency across our partnership.

However, we know that truly defining co-production requires more than internal discussions - it needs the voices and experiences of everyone involved.

Kings House, Kings Church, Sidney Street, Manchester, M1 7HB
Shared Topic Areas

Workplace Menstrual Health Support: A Workshop on Macc’s Learnings and how VCSE Sector can also Implement Menstrual Health Support.

Do you want to know how you can effectively support your colleagues with menstrual health?

We are hosting an online workshop to share our learnings from Macc’s journey on implementing workplace menstrual health support and how other VCSE organisations can do so too. The session will go through this journey, including how we created Macc’s menopause and menstrual health policies and what our key takeaways were.  

Online
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Supporting people who feel stuck – Insights from lived experience

Made by Mortals are launching a new free PDF resource on Monday 31st March, which they think it could benefit you and the people you support. Loneliness, isolation, and the feeling of being stuck keep bringing people back to healthcare services again and again without real change. Made by Mortals understand. And want to help.

MYRIAD: Creative Health Careers Showcase

Join for an exciting and informative all-day conference exploring potential career opportunities in the exciting and growing field of Creative Health; how taking part in creative activity can support a community’s physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Grosvenor East Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Arts and Humanities Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BR
Shared Topic Areas

Measuring what matters most: understanding national well-being

“How’s life?”
This might be a simple question to answer for some, but our well-being, be it personal or national, is made up of so many different things. This could include how happy or anxious we feel, to how often we volunteer, to the abundance of important wildlife species in the UK.

Measuring national well-being helps us to understand how we’re doing beyond standard economic measures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows what matters most to people when it comes to living a good and meaningful life.

Online
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Greater Manchester Older People's Network Vaccination Champion

Are you interested in becoming a vaccinations champion for older people?

The Greater Manchester Older People’s Network are working with the NHS to share information about vaccinations with people across Greater Manchester who can then share with their communities, groups and networks.

Viruses common in winter can make some people very unwell and result in serious problems that may need hospital care. The NHS offers free vaccines to those at greatest risk, so they can get the protection they need.

Carers Manchester South

Carers Manchester South work to identity and support unpaid carers within the South of Manchester City Council. Carers Manchester South do outreach in the local community to try to reach as many unpaid carers as they can, some of whom may not identify or recognise themselves as an unpaid carer. Carers Manchester South  are able to support and signpost these carers to local services and to the contact point which is the first point of contact for carers in Manchester. For more information visit: www.carersmanchester.org.uk