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You know social media matters. It’s where you share your impact, bring your research to new audiences and get your campaigns seen. 

But you’re not the RSPB, National Trust or the Crab Museum. Memes, reactive content and comedy sketches don’t fit your brand, and somewhere along the way you’ve started to worry you might be too serious for social. Here’s the good news: you’re not. 

Serious subjects can make brilliant social content. You just need a different playbook. 

In this free online seminar for Safeguarding Adults Week, the DBS will explore DBS checks, regulated activity, legal referral duties and information sharing to support safer recruitment.

Join Ann Craft Trust for this free seminar with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the UK government agency responsible for helping employers make safer recruitment decisions and preventing unsuitable individuals from working with children and adults.

In this free online seminar for Safeguarding Adults Week, Dementia Carers Count will share the latest findings from their 2026 survey and explore how professional curiosity can improve support and outcomes for carers.

Dementia Carers Count is a UK charity providing information, advice, and support to thousands of dementia carers every year. They provide online information, a telephone support line, and they run frequent online support groups country.

This free online seminar for Safeguarding Adults Week will explore how we can move beyond assumptions about what people with learning disabilities want for their future, and instead create opportunities for genuine choice, voice, and control.

Through the Where I Want to Live Toolkit, participants will discover an innovative, co-produced digital resource designed to help people with learning disabilities explore, discuss and express their wishes about where and how they live as adults.

NPC’s Systems Change Community of Practice is a space for people interested in systems change to connect, learn from one another and explore what systems thinking means for their organisations, work and practice. It builds on NPC’s wider systems practice work and is intended to help people share experiences, challenges and learning from their own systems change journeys, while developing their practice alongside peers.

Join Beeston-Clarke Accountants on the 2nd December for their Charity Chatter session on the role of the Independent Examiner and how you can prepare.

Join Young Manchester and Greater Manchester Youth Network to connect and learn about From Play to Pay: A new project developing a toolkit to tackle gaming and gambling harms.

Are you a youth worker, educator, carer, or policy maker in Greater Manchester? Come learn about From Play to Pay, a project all about the potential pipeline from gaming to gambling. Greater Manchester Youth Network and Young Manchester are co-creating a toolkit that's by and for young people.

Over the evening:

Guest Speaker: Stacey Copeland Former professional boxer and footballer, freelance broadcaster, presenter and commentator.

Plus a Panel of inspiring women representing QBC’s members, trustees, partners and supporters. 

Open to all Queen Bee Coaching members and women who live, work or study in Greater Manchester.

Delia Derbyshire Day returns to Manchester Central Library for 2026.

Honouring the work of the electronic pioneer and BBC Radiophonic Workshop icon, expect a relaxed community gathering at the Henry Watson Music Library.

This year’s Delia Derbyshire Day offers a mixture of creative activities, opportunities to explore Delia’s archive, have a nerdy chat with the people behind the day, a pop-up shop, and especially themed cake.

AI is changing everyday life. But what does that mean for you?

If you're eager to learn about the possibilities, challenges and ethics of AI, and have ever wondered: