Sector News

Greater Manchester City-Region is supporting the One Tonne Plastic Challenge, a nation-wide initiative being led by Cheshire school boy, Thomas Morgan.

The aim of the challenge is to collect 1 tonne of plastic waste through litter picking to stop plastics from entering the waterways.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) are calling for all active community groups in the region to come together in their local litter hotspot and help to clean it up, whilst raising awareness of helping to make their environment litter and plastic free.

If currently smoke The Christie would like to hear your thoughts about a new campaign to raise awareness of lung cancer amongst people who do not smoke.

The Christie want to see what people who smoke think about the new messaging they have developed for a lung cancer awareness campaign for people who have never smoked.

What’s involved?

• Take part in a telephone interview with a researcher
• The interview will take 30-60 minutes
• You will receive £10 for taking part

Can you take part?

Streetwise Opera is announcing Opera Pioneers, a paid programme for people with lived experience of homelessness to explore careers in the opera sector.

Opera Pioneers is a short, mentored programme designed for people with lived experience of homelessness to take their first steps in exploring careers in the opera and wider performing arts sector, specifically in behind-the-scenes roles that support, produce and facilitate the work of an organisation.

GSK Community Health 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.

The programme will support aspirational leaders who want to develop their organisations to tackle health inequalities. It is designed to run alongside the GSK Impact Awards and support the next generation of award winners.

The GSK IMPACT Awards are an annual programme, funded by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as part of the company’s commitment to promote community health and wellbeing. The awards have been running since 1997 and are organised and managed in partnership with The King’s Fund, a leading independent health charity working to improve health and social care.
The 2026 GSK IMPACT Awards are open to registered charities that are at least three years old, working in a health-related field in the UK, with a total annual income between £150,000 and £3 million.

This year:

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has launched the Greater Manchester Strategy 2025-2035 and set out how the strategy marks a new way of doing government that will reimagine how public services are designed and delivered.

Read the Greater Manchester Strategy 2025-2035 here 
 

The Summer Readiness Toolkit and the Heat health Action Card for the VCFSE Sector is to support your planning and response to heat-health alerts. 

The Talking about Heat Toolkit offers practical guidance on how to communicate heat-related risks in ways that resonate with older people, and includes message templates, links to trusted resources, and tips for frontline staff. 
 

The first summer Get To Know Where To Go communications toolkit is now available to download.

The latest toolkit covers:

Buy the Shoes is a free online financial capability and confidence programme for women developed by thrivin together community and MyMoneyMinded. A programme to help you challenge your beliefs and relationship with money and finances. Gambling can create debts, guilt and resentment regarding money and this programme will help break through barriers, maximising your income, knowledge, and confidence. Open to women in recovery and affected others.

Participants will need to register with thrivin' together at the beginning of the programme.

The Government's 10 Year Health Plan for England has been launched, setting out a bold, ambitious and necessary new course for the NHS.

The plan fundamentally reinvents the NHS’s approach to healthcare to guarantee the NHS will be there for all who need it for generations to come.

It has been shaped by the experiences and expectations of members of the public, patients, partners and the health and care workforce across the country, reflecting the changes that people wanted to see.