All Policy and Influence

Ladyfest are currently inviting organisations, charities and groups to attend their community fair that will be taking place at Manchester Methodist Central Hall on the 8 October from 12-6pm.

Attendees are to be not for profit only, with the aims of raising awareness of, educating on or providing support for women and women's issues, with a focus on Manchester and the wider region. 

Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF) comprehensive report, UK poverty: Causes, costs and solutions, presents the evidence for their strategy to solve UK poverty.

UK poverty is real, costly and harmful. Millions of people, many of them in a working family, are struggling to make ends meet.

Spirit Story is a week-long campaign taking place from 19-23 September that will document the extraordinary everyday work of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Manchester. Over 30 organisations are now involved but there is still time for your organisation to sign up.

Manchester City Council are writing a new ‘Residential Quality Guidance’. This is a guide for developers and architects that sets out the kind of new homes wanted in Manchester.

The City Council think it’s important to have their own guidance, specific to Manchester, to get the kind of homes that Mancunians want, that suit the city.