Professional development

The Greater Manchester Resilience Hub together with our Pathfinder Partnership members invite you to register to attend the Greater Manchester's Sexual Assault recovery partnership 1 year event.

Background to the Sexual Assault Recovery Partnership
In the spring of 2022, NHS England sought to commission a number of sexual assault and abuse services pathfinder pilots across the country, with the purpose of developing support for survivors of sexual assault and abuse who experience additional and complex mental health needs.

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In June 2024 Anushka Swannell, a Volunteer Development Worker at Macc, did a piece of research on ‘The Current Climate of Student Volunteering in Greater Manchester.’ We invite you to the launch event for this research, where she will outline her findings and key policy recommendations. There will also be opportunities for you to discuss your experience as a student volunteer, or involving student volunteers, and how we can improve this in future.

The webinar will hear from representatives of Ankose who will talk through how the service can be used for accessing discounted food supplies.

Community-university partnerships are becoming more popular and co-production is a value increasingly embraced by research funders. Nevertheless, it is still relatively uncommon for voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations to be included from the beginning when it comes to developing a research project.

Come and join speakers from academia and the VCFSE sector to learn from their experiences about the challenges and opportunities of developing research projects together across sectors.

Do you facilitate peer support in Greater Manchester?
Do you understand what neurodivergence is?
Do you operate in a way that is accessible to all people?
Do you understand your responsibilities towards accessibility?

Gaddum invite you to their upcoming Question and Answer session designed just for you!

What to expect:
Dr Minna Moffatt-Feldman from Caritas Salford will be on hand to help answer your questions around working with neurodivergence in peer support.

The Resolve Poverty annual conference brings together people across the country who want to know what more we can do to tackle poverty and boost household incomes at a local and regional level.

The conference takes place at a crucial moment in the fight against poverty, with a new national child poverty strategy being published spring 2025. Resolve Poverty will explore what this means for local places and regions and how it can be used to strengthen and scale up local anti-poverty initiatives.

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Join the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) at the Mechanics Institute for an insightful event focused on tackling illegal money lending in Greater Manchester. This session aimed at Frontline Workers will focus on the dangers of Loan Sharks, how to identify their victims and how to protect the communities you work with from falling victim to their schemes. This in-person event will feature expert speakers and interactive workshops to help you understand the impact of illegal money lending and how to prevent it.

The event will will include input from: