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Almost one in two UK businesses reported a cyber breach or attack in the last 12 months. If your systems went down tomorrow, would your business know what to do?

Imagine arriving at work tomorrow morning to discover your systems are down. You can’t access your files. Emails aren’t working. Customer information may have been compromised. And someone is demanding money to give back your access.

Inclusive resident-led work is at the heart of Big Local, with this session focusing on what it takes for community-led programmes to be genuinely inclusive and representative.

This session explores Big Local approaches to representation, power and inclusive partnership working in community‑led projects, highlighting both the strengths of these approaches and the challenges faced by partnership groups.

Are you a leader of a Greater Manchester VCSFE organisation supporting prison and probation experienced people? Are you interested in collaborating with other leaders to connect, influence and improve outcomes and impact?

Clinks are hosting a pilot influencing group to gauge interest and explore the potential aims and outcomes of the group. This idea came about from a project with prison experienced adults, that highlighted systemic challenges, and lack of connectivity between sector organisations.

Challenging Identity: How Does Intersectionality Impact Our Capacity to Make Safeguarding Personal?

What happens when a person’s identity is shaped by multiple experiences, characteristics, and communities?

How can understanding intersectionality help us make safeguarding more person-centred and inclusive?

Moving beyond assumptions and enabling informed decision-making: The Where I Want to Live Toolkit.

This seminar explores 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.

Join Ann Craft Trust CEO Stuart Sale as they launch Safeguarding Adults Week 2026 and come together to explore this year's theme, Every Voice. Every Choice.

The campaign explores how co-production and Making Safeguarding Personal can empower people, strengthen safeguarding practice, and ensure individuals have greater choice and control in decisions that affect their lives.

This opening session will provide an overview of the week ahead, including the daily themes, free online seminars, campaign activities, and opportunities to get involved.

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. 

Every day, hiring organisations rely on contractor assessments and prequalification audits to verify that contractors meet the standards required to work on site safely and compliantly. That process depends on documents such as insurance certificates, risk assessments, training records and competency evidence. But what happens when those documents aren't what they appear to be.

If a fraudulent document entered your supply chain tomorrow, would your organisation spot it?

Join Fuel Poverty Action and friends in Manchester for a conference asking the question who's getting rich from the green transition, and who is missing out?

How do we fight for a clean energy system that's fairer than the dirty fossil fueled one it replaces? How do we make sure home retrofits, insulation, heat pumps etc actually bring bills down and make our homes warm and healthy?

What does the right support look like when communities are given the space to lead?

See social infrastructure in action at Our Sale West Big Local and explore how the places, organisations, relationships and spaces that connect communities can create the foundations for community-led change.

The event will also explore the support infrastructure around community-led programmes: the relationships, resources, capacity building and practical support that can help communities develop and sustain their own ideas and solutions.