A collage of three people with microphones speaking at an event and a banner showing the name 10GM.
Great to be at the announcement of the @10gm.bsky.social Live Well Spaces of Hope and Connection project today. A LOT of work to get to this point but "hope has a home here" really sums it up perfectly. Good to have the support of the Mayor of GM and fantastic investment from the Lottery.
This! This! THIS! So much to say but one thing which this demonstrates very clearly is that businesses have a lot to learn from the VCSE sector - yet we're always told it's the other way round. A more inclusive economy is characterised by greater investment in the VCSE sector.
Bar chart comparing the demographic profile of jobs in civil society and in the rest of the economy. It shows that women account for 48% of all jobs in the rest of the economy, but 67% of all civil society jobs. Meanwhile, men account for 52% of all jobs in the wider economy, but just 33% of civil society jobs. Other demographic categories shown include age, disability and ethnicity.
It’s fairly-well understood that the civil society workforce differs from the wider economy. A much higher share of (paid) jobs are held by women (67%/48%) and disabled people (25%/18%), but relatively few by young people (5%/11% of 16-24s) and ethnic minorities (12%/16%). But how did we get here?
Bridging business and volunteering. MCR SEO. Richard Phillips.
Our Business Partnerships Lead, Richard Phillips, was recently invited onto Manchester SEO Podcast!
Hear about our work and how businesses & organisations can work together to make people's lives better in the city of Manchester.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j7mUY-g2ho
Three-quarters of charities oppose the government’s plans to link volunteering to settlement in the UK, according to a new survey by @ncvo.bsky.social
A world where our health records are used to power state-sponsored surveillance and target vulnerable communities isn’t so far away. And it's exactly what Palantir wants
Keep Palantir out of our NHS 👇
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs
Take 10 minutes to read the latest #Manchester Homelessness Partnership e-bulletin manchestercommunitycentral.org/civicrm/mail...
📣Today we have launched the #EndDestitution campaign📣
migrantdestitution.co.uk/end-destitut...
‼️The government’s latest plans threaten to force yet more people in our communities into destitution. We must stand against this. 1/
So it seems the coming weeks & months will reveal who has not understood the difference between Manchester & Greater Manchester, being a Metro Mayor & Leader of a Local Authority, the powers of a Metro Mayor & those of Mayor of London...but are still paid to be journalists/political commentators.
Graph with a small pile of money and a much larger pile of money. Text reads; "Billionaire fortunes have grown at a rate three times faster in the last year than they did on average in the 5 previous years."
‼️"Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever, sparking dangerous political inequality"
Find out more: bit.ly/4qpnuyI
If you are involved in any sort of social change at a national, regional or local level, we want to hear from you!
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Just for context....
One trillion seconds is equal to more than 31,600 YEARS.
Assuming a 35 hour week, 1trillion a year is an hourly rate of over 549 million.
📣MDF are looking for a Lived Experience Project Worker to join them and help embed lived experience into their work and other MACC projects.
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trophy made of silver metal in the shape of stars twirling up from a single larger star. On the base is written Dr Sylvia Sham Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Sector.
Tomorrow night is the Spirit of Manchester Awards 2025. Celebrating amazing community stories from across Manchester. Follow #SpiritOfMcr25 to find out who wins this trophy...
roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rapid ⬆️ in Px
Doesn't appear to a rapid increase in the £ available for services to which people are referred
If this were referrals to orthopaedics that wouldn't be ok
not ok in this context
🍂 Don’t miss out – the deadline for GM Walking Grants is just days away! Your project could help people keep moving and connecting even as the weather turns colder.
✅ Apply today: buff.ly/7ELkUcE
Chart showing average annual non-pensioner real household income growth, by income percentile: GB/UK
Britain has seen an acute living standards slowdown over the past 20 years.
This has affected incomes across the distribution.
A typical family today would be £20,000 richer if incomes had continued growing at the same rate since 2005, when the Foundation was founded.
⤵️ buff.ly/NuhNFF9
A row of market stalls with people looking at displays and chatting to each other.
Our Volunteer Fair on St Anne's Square is well underway. @mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
📢 VCSE orgs in GM: Could £5k help you deliver health & wellbeing projects for unpaid carers from global majority communities? Apply now 👉 buff.ly/FIsELxx
⏰ Deadline: 12PM, 30 Sept. Info session: 18 Sept, 12–1pm.
Pay ratio disclosure alone won’t fix a system designed to reward shareholder returns over social value. Shifting away from shareholder-first business models would allow workplaces where power and profits are shared fairly. 2/2
Excessive CEO pay is no longer an outlier, it is systemic – a structural feature of our economy.
Mandatory reporting of how much more CEOs are being paid than their workers could challenge extreme wealth accumulation. But... 1/2
This pay ratio gap seems to grow bigger every time I read about it. It should be unacceptable.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Quote card with JRF chief exec Paul Kissack saying "Today's spending review had some welcome first steps on housing, child poverty and crisis support for the poorest people. These need to be backed by decisive action at the budget to improve living standards directly, along with stopping the cuts to disability benefits and delivering a strong child poverty strategy."
Earlier today, we heard the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP
set out details of the government's multi-year spending review.
She said it would 'ensure that renewal is felt in people's everyday lives'. 🔽
1/5
Volunteering is not in decline. On the contrary, it is thriving in many grassroots organisations. But it is a different kind of relationship as I explain in this blog 👇
Season 11. Meet the Mancunian.
We are pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with @meetthemancunian.bsky.social podcast, hosted by Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe, for #SpiritOfMcr25! The podcast focuses on amplifying the voices of those making a difference in the community and spreading positive change in Greater Manchester.
We're hosting an event to launch the research we've done into the #ClimateAction work being done by local VCSE organisations.... booking details below
It's now a tradition of #VolunteersWeek that we announce the WINNER of the Spirit of Manchester Young Volunteer of the Year Award 2025.... #SpiritOfMcr25
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