Tackling Poverty Strategies

Tackling Poverty Strategies

As of February 2025, all ten local authorities in Greater Manchester have either implemented or committed to implementing anti-poverty strategies. 


Currently the following local authorities have an anti-poverty strategy:

The Bury Partnership Anti-Poverty Strategy 2018-2021  (IS THERE AN UPDATED VERSION SOMEWHERE?)

The Bury Partnership Anti-Poverty Strategy 2018-2021 is a borough-wide document which seeks to tackle inequality through targeted strategies of support to build resilience, empower local people and reduce demand on services. 

Making Manchester Fairer: Anti-Poverty Strategy 2023-2027 

This Anti-Poverty Strategy draws upon evidence from residents, organisations, and national research to produce evidenced based recommendations to tackle poverty, its causes, and consequences.

Rochdale’s Anti-Poverty Strategy 2024 -2029 

This strategy sets out Rochdale's priorities for tackling poverty in the borough and the specific actions they will take. Rochdale are committed to alleviating and, ultimately, eradicating poverty

No one left behind: A strategy to prevent and reduce poverty in Salford 2021-2024

Our vision is to make Salford a fairer and more inclusive place where everyone can reach their full potential and live prosperous and fulfilling lives free from poverty and inequality  

Building Resilience Tackling poverty in Tameside 2023-27 

This new Strategy is Tameside’s collective response to addressing the causes and effects of Poverty and the Cost of Living Crisis. All key Partners in Tameside have agreed to work together to take a fresh look at the entrenched issues that blight our most vulnerable residents and provide the means to improve life chances for all.

Trafford Poverty Strategy 2023-2025

This version of the strategy is a combination of both the Trafford Poverty Strategy 2022- 2025 and the Trafford Poverty Truth Commission 2023 End of Commission Report and therefore has not only been developed in partnership, with involvement from Trafford’s voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector, public services, health services, and housing associations, but most importantly builds upon the voices and recommendations from residents in Trafford with lived experience of poverty.