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Join Resolve Poverty for a free webinar session, exploring how to use poverty data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action.

In this webinar, Resolve Poverty will explore how to use data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action. Using the latest edition of the Resolve Poverty Poverty Monitor, the webinar will explore key poverty indicators across the North West and demonstrate how data can be used to support evidence-based decision-making, policy development and service design.

In today’s financial landscape, providing money guidance goes beyond budgeting and signposting. It’s also about understanding and recognising the hidden threats that can impact your clients’ financial stability.

This in-person event will explore two of the major threats affecting people’s finances: gambling harm and illegal money lending (loan sharks).

The festival will be opened by challenging leaders to think boldly about how they thrive through complexity, uncertainty and constant change. Designed with executives in mind, this session equips participants to lead with clarity and impact in high-pressure environments.

A digital strategy can help you foresee the digital tools and skills that will be needed ahead of time, understand your role in the wider world, and be empowered to take the digital actions best suited to your charity. These are just some of the many reasons why nearly half of charities (44%) say that developing a strategy for tech, digital, data, or AI is important to them in 2026.

Join Utility Aid for a free Energy Market Update. Get the latest insights, what they mean for charities, and answers to your questions.

Stay informed. Understand the market. Make confident energy decisions.

Energy markets continue to experience volatility, making it increasingly important for charities and community organisations to understand what’s happening — and what it could mean for their organisation.

Learn from successful social investment case studies, explore regional funding opportunities, and connect directly with investors committed to supporting Black and global majority-led organisations.

Join leading social investors, Black and global majority-led charities, and social enterprises for an exclusive networking event designed to demystify social investment and build meaningful funding partnerships.

Manchester Art Gallery, the Pride in Ageing programme at LGBT Foundation and Dementia Disco invite you to a relaxed Sunday-afternoon celebration of music, memory and LGBTQ+ communities to mark Manchester Village Pride weekend.

Explore how entrepreneurial thinking can transform your organisation's approach to sustainability and growth.

Are you a BME organisation looking to diversify your income, innovate your services, and build a more sustainable future?

This webinar will empower you to identify and leverage opportunities, think creatively about your resources, and cultivate the "entrepreneurial spirit" needed to thrive.

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Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways charities can demonstrate their impact, build public understanding and inspire action. This practical introductory session explores how to identify stories that bring your charity’s work to life.

Great storytelling doesn’t happen by chance. It requires clear processes, thoughtful decision-making and a commitment to putting people before content.

This practical workshop explores how charities can build an ethical, sustainable approach to gathering, managing and sharing stories from people with living and lived experience. You’ll learn how to develop a Stories Hub – a structured system for identifying, collecting, storing and using stories safely and effectively – so your charity has powerful, authentic content ready when opportunities arise.