Policy and Influence

Manchester Transport Strategy 2050 Consultation: Online Equalities and VCFSE Q&A

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

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Up Close and Policy: Bringing creativity into policy engagement

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.

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Directory of Social Change: Understanding and Quantifying Your Social Value

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?

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An Introduction to community wealth building

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.

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Creating Places for Everyone – Launch webinar

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”.

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Creating culturally competent services for children and families: Cultural diversity and social justice in health and social care

Understanding someone's cultural context is key to understanding and supporting them as a whole person. How do they view the world? What role does their community play in their lives? How does their culture influence the way they interact with health and social care professionals?