The latest full report for the Greater Manchester Residents Survey is now available. Conducted on behalf of localities and partners, the survey offers in-depth insight into the impacts of coronavirus across the region and explores key areas linked to the Greater Manchester Strategy, including residents’ experiences and attitudes towards food insecurity, good work, and digital inclusion.
Read the full report here
NPC are delighted to share that the 2026 schedule for Everyone’s Environment: Local is now confirmed — along with the sign‑up forms for your organisation.
Manchester City Council manages around 1,000 contracts each year – working with organisations that range from small local businesses to voluntary sector providers and large international corporations. Some of their suppliers have dedicated social value teams and strategies, whereas others may be writing a social value section of a bid for the first time.
To support all suppliers to write strong bids and deliver meaningful social value commitments, their Procurement Team has created a new Social Value and Zero Carbon Toolkit.
Join this online session to find out more about the future of transport in Greater Manchester and share your thoughts.
What do you want travel to look like by 2050?
Greater Manchester is currently consulting on its draft 2050 Transport Strategy – and a detailed Delivery Plan outlining local schemes from 2027 to 2037.
This live online session is your opportunity to learn more and help shape the future of travel across our city region.
What you’ll get from this session
Join to hear about UCL Public Policy funded project: “Mosaics for Policy Development”
How can policy be designed that truly reflects people’s lived experiences? Traditional policy making methods can struggle to capture the nuance, creativity and diversity of perspectives needed for effective decision making. This event showcases a different way forward.
As part of Wellcome Policy Lab-funded project, UCL Public Policy partnered with Scientia Scripta to explore creative approaches to policy development.
The capacity to better identify, quantify and communicate the social and environmental impact of an organisation is becoming increasingly important to manage limited resources and guide strategic decision making, as well as engaging effectively with external stakeholders such as funders, customers, volunteers and the media.
Who should attend?
In this workshop you will be taken through the five pillars of community wealth building, what they are, what they mean in practice and what it looks like when action is taken on each pillar in a place. The session will invite participants to explore community wealth building in the current UK context and evaluate its key role in developing an inclusive economy. By the end of the workshop you will have had a comprehensive introduction to community wealth building theory and practice.
Locality’s new research report and action plan, Creating Places for Everyone, investigates the role of place-based community organisations in the pursuit of racial justice, and how Locality can support their members to make positive local change on this vital issue.
Over 18 months, against the backdrop of growing division, disconnection, and violence in our communities, Locality worked with members across the country to explore what it really means to achieve their vision of “a fair society where every community thrives”.
The Manchester Safeguarding Partnership (MSP) a