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MFT’s Annual Members Meeting and Community Health Fair

Trevor Rees, Interim Trust Chair, and Mark Cubbon, Trust Chief Executive, are pleased to invite you to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’s 2026 Annual Members Meeting and Community Health Fair.

This year’s Annual Members’ Meeting also includes a ‘Community Health Fair’, that gives you and our wider communities the chance to meet the teams, pick up practical health advice, take part in activities and health checks. As well as learning more about how Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust are improving and transforming care for our patients.

Education and Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester, M23 9LT
Shared Topic Areas

Connect, Learn, Thrive: Improving public health workforce wellbeing and development across a subregion

This session, organised by Champs Public Health Collaborative, will provide insights from the Connect, Learn, Thrive programme, a collaborative approach that brings together expertise, opportunities for learning and developing a public health career pathway, as well as wellbeing resources.

Online
Shared Topic Areas

Once Upon a Smile Christmas Ball 2026

This year’s Christmas Ball is extra special as it is a celebration of 15 years of Once Upon a Smile, marking a year of special activities and events and will be hosted by the charity Co-Founders, Danny Miller and Daniel Jillings.
                                                                            
Join for a wonderful festive afternoon featuring:

Kimpton Clocktower Hotel, Manchester City Centre
Shared Topic Areas

Low cost community healing session for global majority people

In this session, Nubia Wellness & Healing (NWAH) will draw upon the best of African centred psychology, theories and wellness approaches to create a safer space for reflection, healing, recovery and optimisation.

The session will include breakout rooms for discussion aimed at helping people of African ancestry process recent events and the spiritual crisis and soul wound it may have stimulated in some eg.

Online

The Thinking Shop – Making sense of working ON my organisation

Most people involved in charities, CICs and community organisations spend a lot of time doing — supporting people, answering emails, chasing funding, solving problems and keeping things moving.

The Thinking Shop is a 90-minute facilitated session exploring a simple question:

How much of what we are busy doing is actually helping us do what we exist to do?

It isn’t a training course. There are no presentations and no expert standing at the front with all the answers.

The University of Manchester – Emmeline Room A, Pankhurst Building, Dover Street, M13 9PS

Seize the day: legal, regulatory, governance and policy updates for charities

Join the gunnercooke charities team, Michele Price and Robert Nieri for a 45-minute webinar and short Q&A at 12:00 on Tuesday 20th October, to address recent legal, regulatory, governance and policy developments that may not only impact your charity but that you can harness with confidence to better advance your organisation’s purposes.

Online

Advicenow: Benefits and housing rights for care leavers (2 days)

Advicenow are running a free course for organisations across England which support care leavers in securing their housing rights. The course will be delivered online and is funded by the National Lottery Reaching Communities project.

The course will give you the basic knowledge and skills you need to deal with key housing and benefits issues faced by people who have left care. 

The free online workshops will take place on the following dates:

Online

422 Community Hub: Ardwick and Longsight Community Support Network

If you work with people and communities across Ardwick and Longsight, we’d love you to join us for the first gathering of the Ardwick & Longsight Community Support Network.

At 422, we have the privilege of speaking to many of you and we hear the same thing over and over - we’re all busy doing our jobs, supporting residents and responding to the needs we see every day. That often means there simply isn’t enough time to meet the other people and services working on our doorstep, or to keep up with everything that’s happening locally.

422 Community Hub, 422 Stockport Road, Longsight, M12 4EX

Good Employment Week 2026: Employment of People with Criminal Records

Learn more about what it means to be a good employer when it comes to the employment of people with criminal records

What does it mean to be a good employer when it comes to people with criminal records? What is the Greater Manchester way of understanding and rehabilitating the history of offending through employment?

Castlefield Recruitment, Afflecks Manchester, 4th Floor, Oldham Street, M1 1JG