Most organisations learn: some formally through structured processes, others informally through day‑to‑day practice. The challenge is to understand how learning already happens in your organisation and then identify the right interventions to intentionally grow and strengthen a learning culture.
In this session, we (NPC) will look at learning as a culture‑change process through four lenses:
On Thursday 7 May 2026, local elections will take place across Manchester. At these elections, you will need to bring photo ID to be able to vote at a polling station. A wide range of photo ID will be accepted, including passports, driving licences, and cards with a PASS Mark.
If you don't have an accepted form of photo ID, you can apply for a free voter ID document known as a Voter Authority Certificate. Apply by 5pm on 28 April 2026.
Understand what data tells us about poverty in the UK, how to find this data and how to use it to build effective responses to poverty.
What you’ll learn:
Learn better practice in engaging with people with lived experience of poverty.
What you’ll learn:
Understand our social security system and the financial support available to help people find and access what they're entitled to
What you’ll learn:
Join an informal Community Organiser Gathering in Greater Manchester, hosted by the Civic Power Fund and Sister.
Back by popular demand, and building on the 2025 gathering, which brought together over 70 community organisers, campaigners and movement builders.
The intention remains simple: Get together, talk to each other, and break bread.
NO Pressure and NO long speeches – just building relationships and sharing joy.
Whether you are organising locally, regionally, or across communities of interest come and meet others who think and work like you.
Manchester has been awarded £80 million from the UK Government’s Pride in Place Programme. This major ten‑year investment focuses on improving neighbourhoods by funding the things that matter most to local people.
The programme is built around local leadership, local priorities and local voices.
Four areas in Manchester will each receive up to £20 million over ten years:
This online launch will mark the upcoming publication of How Will the Climate and Nature Crises Impact Women and Girls? – a major new briefing produced jointly by the WEN (Women’s Environmental Network) and NPC’s Everyone’s Environment programme. The session will introduce key findings from the report and explore what they mean for women’s and environmental organisations, funders, policymakers and practitioners across the UK.
As Manchester begins to refresh the Compact for
Manchester’s Families First Partnership (FFP) Programme Board is seeking two representatives from Manchester-based voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations, to ensure that the voices of local communities and VCSE organisations inform decisions that improve outcomes for children, young people, and families.