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As part of Lives Not Knives Week of Action (9th-13th November 2026), Manchester Safeguarding Partnership are offering a range of free online learning opportunities designed to support professionals working with children, young people and families.

These sessions will increase awareness of serious violence, exploitation, online harms, safeguarding, early intervention and support services available across Greater Manchester.

Learn more about the public health approach to tackling serious violence and how partnership working can support safer communities.

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As part of Lives Not Knives Week of Action (9th-13th November 2026), Manchester Safeguarding Partnership are offering a range of free online learning opportunities designed to support professionals working with children, young people and families.

These sessions will increase awareness of serious violence, exploitation, online harms, safeguarding, early intervention and support services available across Greater Manchester.

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As part of Lives Not Knives Week of Action (9th-13th November 2026), Manchester Safeguarding Partnership are offering a range of free online learning opportunities designed to support professionals working with children, young people and families.

These sessions will increase awareness of serious violence, exploitation, online harms, safeguarding, early intervention and support services available across Greater Manchester.

Come and join staff from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Phoenix Community Trust to find out how to develop competitive applications for projects exploring African heritage within Greater Manchester.

The event will introduce funding available as well as key strategies to make your applications competitive.

A light lunch will be provided as well as tea, coffee and biscuits.

Join the Live Well Live webinar with the We’re Right Here campaign (WRH) to explore how community-powered neighbourhood governance can put communities at the heart of local decision-making, shift power closer to people and places, and reshape the relationship between communities and public services across Greater Manchester and beyond.

Webinar speakers will include WRH campaign leaders sharing Greater Manchester based examples of neighbourhood governance in practice, including community covenants and neighbourhood forums, alongside learning from Live Well implementation.

Social-first short form video is now central to a brand’s social performance and cannot be ignored. However, all too often brand content is flat, overly produced, or trend led without purpose. This practical, insight driven session will help attendees rethink how they approach short form social-first video, focusing on storytelling, hooks and confidence on camera – not just filming technique.

What support exists for community solar power and battery in Greater Manchester? Councils, companies, residents and community groups welcome!

Greater Manchester Combined Authority scores 100% in the 2025 Buildings & Heating section of Climate Emergency UK’s Action Scorecards.

With the latest government changes encouraging and providing funding for the use of solar and battery power, how can communities in Greater Manchester benefit from renewable energy and lower energy bills?

Telling stories about people who have migrated has never been more important, or felt more risky. Across North West England, organisations are heading into Christmas appeal season unsure whether they can safely put a client, or even a volunteer, in front of a camera, while hostile posts, hotel protests and misinformation keep coming.

This free two hour workshop from IMIX, is a practical session on speaking out while keeping people safe. You will leave with real drafts you can use this winter, not just notes.

The workshop will cover:

Under the theme Shaping Our Digital Futures, this landmark summit brings together civil society, governments, businesses, academia and communities with lived experiences, regardless of technical background, to see themselves as co architects of a future where technology, innovation and artificial intelligence strengthen human dignity, expand opportunity and accelerate social impact.

24 & 25 November 2026 | 08:30–17:30 GMT | Holiday Inn Manchester City Centre

Summit Day 1 establishes the foundations for an inclusive and equitable digital future.

Join Steve Butterworth from Neighbourly and Mic Miller from easyfundraising for a relaxed and practical conversation about funding for charities and community organisations.

They’ll discuss some of the challenges good causes are facing, the funding opportunities that can sometimes be overlooked, and how platforms like Neighbourly and easyfundraising can provide additional ways to bring in support.