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Launch of new NHS GM Green Plan
NHS Greater Manchester has launched its Green Plan 2025–28, setting out how the region’s health services will cut carbon, protect health and create a fairer, greener future. With climate change already affecting local health - worsening asthma, increasing heat-related illness and deepening inequalities-the plan aims to build an NHS that is sustainable, resilient and rooted in climate justice. It calls on all health and care services to play their part, while encouraging residents to take everyday actions such as choosing greener travel. The launch coincides with Mode Shift Month, a September-long campaign promoting walking, cycling, wheeling and shared journeys to cut emissions and boost wellbeing.
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Blogs
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Events ...
Supporting People Through Financial Challenges: Peer Learning & Exchange
Join us online for a 1.5-hour interactive session with the GM Live Well Frontline Peer Support Network, bringing together experts and frontline colleagues from across Greater Manchester to explore how we can better support residents experiencing financial hardship. Hear from guest speakers including Stop Loan Sharks England, Citizens Advice, GMCA, and the NHS Northern Gambling Service as they share insights on tackling debt stress, loan shark activity, and gambling harm. The session will also include a peer-led discussion to share best practice and identify tools or training to strengthen our collective response - open to all frontline staff in housing, welfare, social prescribing, community, and multiple disadvantage roles.
Time: 11:00-12:30
Webinar: Live Well Live - Reimagining Neighbourhood Regeneration with Communities
Join us for Live Well Live: Community-led Placemaking, an online webinar exploring how residents can take the lead in shaping neighbourhoods, towns and cities that reflect their priorities, strengths and aspirations. Hear inspiring stories from across Greater Manchester and beyond, including Ageing in Place partnerships and resident-led networks, showcasing how collaboration between communities, councils and organisations can create places that truly help people to live well. With new national investment and local momentum building, this is your chance to learn how community-led placemaking is transforming spaces into thriving, connected and inclusive places for all.
Time: 10:00-11:30
In 2025, the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector faces increasing challenges. With welfare budget cuts, economic pressures, and rising demand for services, many organisations are being asked to do more with less.
This year’s VSNW Conference and AGM will focus on a vital question: How do we move from uncertainty to strength? Together, we will explore ways to build internal capacity, strengthen collaborative partnerships, and continue leading the future of public service delivery across the North West.
The day will feature keynote speeches, breakout workshops for discussion, and valuable networking opportunities.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided. The event is free to attend and is aimed at VCFSE leaders who are members, associates, or partners of VSNW. If you’re not yet a member, this is an excellent opportunity to join and connect with peers across the region.
Location: King's House Conference Centre, King's Church, Sidney Street, Manchester, GTM M1 7HB
Time: 10:00-16:00
Follow the White Rabbit: In defence of conspiracy theories
Join journalist Gabriel Gatehouse, creator of the award-winning podcast The Coming Storm, for a lecture on what conspiracy theories reveal about the societies that produce them. Moving beyond debunking, Gatehouse explores the truths these tales illuminate and will discuss his insights in conversation with award-winning sociologist and author Professor Gary Younge. This public event is part of the workshop Behind the Scenes: (Mis)trust, plausibility and scepticism in contemporary life, 3–4 December 2025 at the University of Manchester.
Location: University Place, 176 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
Time: 18:00-19:30
CoDE Seminar: Race and Bias in Generative AI
Explore how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Meta AI reproduce social inequalities, including racism, sexism, and other biases. This seminar presents empirical experiments examining race-related prompts in text and image generation, revealing deeply embedded biases in contemporary AI systems. By making these patterns visible, the talk highlights how scholars of race and media can critically engage with and audit GenAI, and advance theory on the social implications of rapidly evolving AI technologies.
Time: 13:00-14:30
W/c 9 March 2026
GM Live Well Festival
We’re excited to share an early heads-up - during the week commencing 9 March 2026, we’ll be hosting the GM Live Well Festival.
As always, this event will be co-designed with you - communities, partners and colleagues across Greater Manchester.
Building on the success of our March 2025 event ‘Growing Great Everyday Support in Every Neighbourhood’, which brought energy, connection and system-wide movement building, the 2026 Festival will be a space to learn, reflect, connect and celebrate the impact of Live Well across our communities.
What’s next:
- Open space co-design session in November – open to anyone who wants to help shape the Festival.
- Smaller co-design sessions from November at Live Well events, in teams and across GM.
Main ask for now:
Please keep the week free of major events so we can come together to showcase, celebrate and strengthen the Live Well movement.
Resolve Poverty Annual Conference 2026
Join Resolve Poverty’s 2026 Annual Conference to explore how hope, aspirations and practical action can help build good lives for all. Bringing together policymakers and practitioners from across the UK, this two-day event examines how local and regional initiatives can drive meaningful change within the context of national policy developments, including the new Child Poverty Strategy. Through keynote sessions and focused breakouts on health, welfare, housing, income maximisation and community-led support, the conference showcases how localities can strengthen household finances, raise expectations for children and young people, and unlock the potential of people and places. Book one or both days and be part of shaping a fairer future.
Location: Central Manchester
Stronger Things 2026 Conference
Registration is now open for New Local's 2026 Stronger Things conference - the UK’s leading event on community power.
Do you have an event related to Fairer Health for All that you want to share? Email nhsgm.fhfa@nhs.net