Stay connected to the movement, learn and share through the Live Well event series:
Live Well Live: Empowering and engaging communities: Grassroots innovations in homelessness prevention
22nd August, 1.30-3pm online
The work of local grassroots organisations and community groups plays a crucial yet often overlooked role in homelessness prevention. Addressing key issues around food insecurity, mental health and finances through creating a sense of belonging and connection can provide individuals experiencing multiple disadvantage with an important safety net before they reach the crisis point of experiencing homelessness. Discover and hear how community driven initiatives are effectively preventing homelessness through early intervention, support and community engagement.
Live Well Live: Homelessness Prevention Tickets, Thu 22 Aug 2024 at 13:30 | Eventbrite
Live Well Live: Increasing access to nature and enriching green spaces
18th September, 2-3.30pm online
From community garden projects and local walking schemes, to neighbourhood networks transforming alleyways and food sovereignty networks – community-led initiatives are increasing access to nature and enriching green spaces across Greater Manchester. Hear directly from communities across GM who are leading enriching nature-based/or green initiatives where people need it most. Learn more about GM Nature for Health, our Green (nature-based) Social Prescribing programme, including a boost of funding and a renewed focus on racial inequalities and systems change. Find out more the GM Green Spaces Fund, supporting community-led projects that increase the quality and quantity of accessible, nature-rich green spaces in the city region – and the next iteration of this funding.
Live Well Live: Nature for Health Tickets, Wed 18 Sep 2024 at 14:00 | Eventbrite
GM Live Well: Growing community power to tackle health and wellbeing inequalities
3rd October, 10am-4pm, Methodist Central Hall, Manchester, M1 1JQ
Communities shaping the places they live and the system of support around them is key to tackling health and wellbeing inequalities.
Across Greater Manchester, people and places are working in new and creative ways to ensure community voice is at the heart of decision-making, changing the way support is designed and delivered, and growing community power in their neighbourhoods. From community-led voice and influence networks to legislative theatre and poverty truth commissions, communities are laying the vital groundwork to make their voices heard. Through these spaces, communities build deep understanding of what is needed to tackle inequalities in their neighbourhoods and activate their collective agency to affect change. We know that it is not only about what happens in communities, but their relationship with decision-makers that creates lasting impact. Come along to learn, inspire, and grow the movement.
This event is being developed in partnership with GM Networks Connect, bringing together a range of digital, food poverty, climate, and homelessness social justice and action networks across GM.
GM Live Well: Growing community power... Tickets, Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
About Live Well
Live Well is Greater Manchester’s movement for community-led health and wellbeing, supporting healthier, happier and fairer communities by growing opportunities for everyone to Live Well. Live Well will tackle health and wellbeing inequalities by changing how we work with communities and in our systems, to grow community power, action and wealth.
Live Well | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (gmintegratedcare.org.uk)
gmlivewell@greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk
With funding from National Lottery Community Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK, has invested £1 million in Greater Manchester’s Live Well work to grow opportunities in the places we live and the things we do. The National Lottery Community Fund grant will help Greater Manchester’s public services tackle these health and wellbeing inequalities. You can read more here: Live Well | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (gmintegratedcare.org.uk)