The Holiday Activity and Food programme
Summer holidays can be difficult for some families. The cost of extra food, childcare, and activities to keep the children active and entertained can be challenging.
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Manchester City Council Health Scrutiny Committee meeting - June 2023
This meeting focused largely on an update on how the Better Outcomes Better Lives Transformation programme and Adult Social Care Commissioning are progressing. The report referenced a new team, which has been established alongside the contact centre called Adult Early Support Team (AEST). This new team includes adult social care, occupational therapy and Manchester Mind. An initial test of this approach has been delivered in Ancoats, Clayton and Bradford neighbourhoods.
Join our Greater Manchester Older People’s Mental Health Network
Do you have experience of accessing or supporting someone who has accessed mental health services as an older adult?
Join our network and use your experiences to influence the transformation of services!
If you would like to learn more and join as a network member, please email: [email protected] or call 0161 834 9823.
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New GSK Health Inequalities Programme
This new programme offers funding and leadership support to small charities tackling health inequalities in the UK.
The new GSK Health Inequalities programme is funded by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in partnership with The King’s Fund, a leading independent health charity working to improve health and social care.
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Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Strategy 2023 survey
The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are finding out what people who live, work and study in Greater Manchester think about violence, and the impact violence may have had on them. 
Greater Manchester is made up of 10 boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan.
The survey should take about 15-20 minutes to complete.
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Contains Strong Language: A guide to talking about racism
How can we speak clearly and powerfully about racism? What language moves a mainstream audience towards an anti-racist cause? Which words should we be avoiding? How do we explain 
structural racism? Answers to these questions and more can be found in Contains Strong Language, released by communications research initiative Reframing Race.
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Children and young people’s mental health: An independent review into policy success and challenges over the last decade
This report by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition considers the policy landscape in England in relation to children and young people’s mental health over the last decade, and 
reviews progress relating to implementation and impact.
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GM Poverty Action newsletter 17 July 2023
The latest newsletter takes a look at new data revealing UK residents’ experiences of financial hardship over the last decade, a look back at Liverpool Hope University's cost-of-living conference and 
details of their newly launched Poverty Research and Advocacy Network (PRAN), a look back at the Living Wage Awards, held in Manchester for the first time, an update on the soon-to-be launched Poverty Reference Group and a loo
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Creative Poetry workshops
Are you an older person aged 50 or over living in Greater Manchester?
Join Greater Manchester Older People’s Mental Health Network at one of their inspiring and creative poetry workshops where they will be exploring thoughts and feelings through poetry, whilst learning from each other in a safe and friendly space, and writing some great poetry too.
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