For charities, getting to know their audience is essential. In a world where online experiences are tailored to our every convenience, charities need to ensure their fundraising and marketing activities follow suit, boosting fundraising, engagement, and creating vocal advocates for their cause. Fortunately, many charities already hold the key to good online experiences: it lies within their data.
A charity’s purpose can be measured and felt not only by its external impact, but also through its internal practices and strategies.
Charity Digital's ‘Behind the Purpose’ FREE online event will explore how HR and Finance teams can join forces to make the most of their organisation’s resources and deliver a greater impact - from building staff training strategies and investing in wellbeing, to collaborating on charity risk assessments.
An interactive session looking at how media planning works within the advertising industry
A free interactive session on media planning in the advertising industry exclusively for creative talent
Research suggests we see thousands of adverts every day, but how do they make it onto our screens?
In this 60-minute online masterclass from Media Trust, you’ll discover what it takes to work in media planning and how media planners help brands reach the right audiences, in the right places.
We’ll explore how to:
For Get Grants’ upcoming Meet the Expert event, they will be joined by Mick McGrath, Development Officer at Locality, who will share more about Locality and the support available to community organisations, charities and social enterprises.
About Locality
Over the last 12 months, Making Smoking History has worked together with eight voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations to co-create, test, and evaluate a new Greater Manchester Smokefree Spaces Toolkit.
Manchester Safeguarding Partnership are pleased to welcome We Are Survivors to deliver this final session in their Week of Action.
Established in Greater Manchester in 2009, We Are Survivors is a survivor-focused charity that creates safe spaces and provides specialist support for male survivors, including trans and non-binary individuals, affected by sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation. Their work combines direct support, advocacy, education and awareness-raising to help break the silence surrounding sexual harm and create lasting change.
Manchester Safeguarding Partnership are delighted to welcome REIGN Collective to deliver their morning session on the final day in their Week of Action
REIGN is a Manchester-based, survivor-led organisation that works to transform how professionals and services understand and respond to child sexual abuse and exploitation through training, consultancy and lived-experience expertise. Their work is recognised for providing powerful insights that challenge perceptions, improve safeguarding practice, and drive meaningful change.
About the Cultural Well-being Programme (CWP)
Launched in 2023 through a partnership between African Caribbean Mental Health Services, Empower Consultants CIC, and Fikawelie Mental Health Unit CIC, the CWP offers bespoke and culturally tailored interventions for individuals from South Asian, Black African, Caribbean, and dual heritage backgrounds experiencing severe mental illness or crisis.
Upcoming dates:
9 September 2026
22 October 2026
17 November 2026
3 December 2026
14 January 2027
9.30am-12.30pm or 1pm-4pm
This forum provides an opportunity to hear from leading expert Dr Sophie King-Hill, who will explore contemporary understandings of masculinity and consider how professionals can better understand, engage and support young men and boys. The session will encourage reflection on the challenges facing young people today and the importance of creating environments where healthy, positive expressions of masculinity can thrive.
This thought-provoking session will be relevant to any professional working with children and families in Manchester.
Five years ago, Greater Manchester launched the GM Moving in Action 10-year strategy: Active Lives for All.
GM Moving in Action is a shared ‘movement for movement’ – a strategy built with over 2,000 people and partners across the city-region – all working towards a collective mission: Active Lives for All.
This September, GM Moving are marking five years of that strategy, and they would love for you to be there to celebrate the achievements, share learnings and priorities for the future, and commit to further action and influence.