Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) are developing the next stage of how Live Well is brought to life across Greater Manchester and would love your help to get it right.
Live Well has evolved over the last few years through the involvement of people and communities across Greater Manchester. GMCA would like to continue building on that together.
Join the Live Well Live webinar with the We’re Right Here campaign (WRH) to explore how community-powered neighbourhood governance can put communities at the heart of local decision-making, shift power closer to people and places, and reshape the relationship between communities and public services across Greater Manchester and beyond.
Webinar speakers will include WRH campaign leaders sharing Greater Manchester based examples of neighbourhood governance in practice, including community covenants and neighbourhood forums, alongside learning from Live Well implementation.
Inclusive Resilience Pathways was developed to support more inclusive approaches to emergency preparedness, response and recovery. It brought together VCFSE organisations working alongside marginalised communities and resilience practitioners responsible for emergency planning, response and recovery, to better understand how emergencies affect different communities and identify practical ways to strengthen inclusive resilience practice.
From 1st September 2026, an important DBS rule change will affect organisations that use volunteers and some other supervised workers to teach, train, instruct, care for or supervise children.
The change removes the existing supervision exemption from regulated activity with children. This means that being supervised will no longer automatically keep an otherwise qualifying role outside regulated activity.
Advicenow is running a free housing rights course for frontline organisations supporting people with refugee status. The course will be delivered online and is funded by The Disrupt Foundation.
About the course
The course aims to give you the basic knowledge and skills needed to deal with key issues for people experiencing homelessness and living in temporary accommodation.
The course will be delivered online. You will be required to watch short introductory videos before each interactive session.
This informative and interactive session will help practitioners develop a greater understanding of how children and young people may be exploited and the impact trauma can have on their lives. The course explores how a trauma-informed approach can support better outcomes for young people and their families.
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2027 looks different for charities. Fewer people give, but those who do give more. Trusts and foundations are swamped with applications. AI is changing how people find charities, and a new Prime Minister has reset the agenda at Westminster. What should charities be planning for?
nfpResearch tracks the public, MPs, journalists and funders for charities across the UK and beyond. In this session, Tim Harrison-Byrne and Cian Murphy will draw on that research to set out the questions we think will matter most next year, and what the data says about each.
What you'll take away:
This session is being jointly delivered by the British Red Cross and Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP). The training will be delivered by Sarah Holloway, Gender-Based Violence National Manager, British Red Cross and Pragya KC, Women's Legal Advisor, Asylum Support Appeal Project.
The training will cover:
One year on – what's changed, and what's next?
A year ago, Greater Manchester launched its Participation Playbook to help communities have more say in the decisions, services and places that affect their lives.
Now it's time to celebrate how far it’s come, share what has been learned and explore what happens next.
Join the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) as they #PressPlay on the next chapter of participation and community power in Greater Manchester.
Manchester’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector is made of thousands of organisations and individuals who use their skills to improve the quality of life in the city. They have insight that can help shape policy and decision making locally, regionally and nationally.