Policy and Influence

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

Inclusive Community‑Led Change: Power and representation in practice

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.

Online
Shared Topic Areas

Help shape a new Information and Navigation Tool

Manchester City Council are seeking input from partners and stakeholders to help shape the discovery phase of an Information and Navigation Tool project. The aim of this work is to explore how trusted information about local support and services could be made easier to find, helping staff and volunteers to have better conversations with residents and connect people to the right support at the right time.

Make Green Fair Conference

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?

Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS
Shared Topic Areas

Social Infrastructure for Community-Led Programmes: Learning from Big Local and Live Well including a visit to Our Sale West

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.

Our Sale West Big Local, Newbury Avenue, M33 4QW

VCSE Reps needed for a Trauma Steering Group

Public Health at Manchester City Council are looking for new VCSE reps for a new Trauma Steering Group that will sit under Making Manchester Fairer.

Manchester has an ambition to be a trauma aware and trauma responsive City. As part of the next phase of this work the Public Health team at Manchester City Council are setting up a trauma steering group that will feed into the Making Manchester Fairer Programme Board. 

Join the Making Manchester Fairer Programme Board

Do you want to help make Manchester a fairer place to live?

The Making Manchester Fairer Programme Board looking for new volunteer members to join them. To apply, you must:

  • Be aged 18 or over
  • Live and/or work in Manchester

This is a chance to help tackle health inequalities in the city. Health inequalities mean that some people have poorer health and shorter lives than others.

Manchester’s Publication Local Plan Consultation

Manchester City Council are consulting on Manchester's Publication Local Plan. The Plan will set out a framework for how land in Manchester should be developed and will guide decisions on planning applications. It will include policies on new housing, employment and shops, green spaces and the environment and leisure uses as well as infrastructure needs.  It will fit with other strategies that deliver the vision of the Council.