Greater Manchester Social Value Network (GMSVN) has been offered the chance to use the tools and resources from the national Inspiring Impact programme to help organisations in Greater 
Manchester. We currently have an opportunity to create 10-15 Inspiring Impact Champions and are now inviting expressions of interest from people to participate.
Champions will receive:
- Free train the trainer workshops
- Mentoring support
- Access to the tools and resources used by the national programme
In return, GMSVN expect:
- Champions to use the knowledge that they have received as part of their work to help others
Context
The Greater Manchester Social Value Network exists to encourage organisations in every sector to seek relevant social, environmental and economic value from everything they do. It does this by providing opportunities for people to learn, share and deliver more social value.
We believe that addressing inequality can be everyone’s business and now is the time to take action. In Greater Manchester we will look to use social value to tackle the inequalities around us and make the things that we do, good, fair and sustainable. As part of this work, we need your help, and are looking for people who can help spread good social value and impact practice across the city region as part of this programme.
Who we are looking for
Inspiring Impact Champions will be active across many different types of organisations in GM. They will have an interest in social value / impact, be committed to making a difference in their places, communities and for the planet. They will be in paid or voluntary roles through which they can commit not only to using the learning from Inspiring Impact in their own roles, but also to inspire others to embed impact into their business or public sector organisation, their charity, social enterprise or community organisation.
Timeframes and applications
The training programme starts in October 2022 and further information is contained in the attached Expression of Interest form. We do appreciate that people’s time is valuable, and you may not be able to make all the workshops, so we will record them all for you to rewatch at your convenience.
If you are interested in taking part, please return the completed EOI form, together with our monitoring form by 9 September 2022 to: [email protected]
GMSVN aims to recruit a cohort of Champions which reaches across all business sectors and geographies of Greater Manchester, as well as achieve a diversity of representation by sex, age, ethnicity, disability or community of identity. We hope that our Champions can be active in ‘inspiring impact’ in as many different places and organisations and communities as possible across GM. This is a pilot cohort, and if successful our plan is to repeat this work in 2023.