Movement Fund Meet the Funder
Wednesday 11th Feb, 12-1pm online
Sport England will be hosting a GM-specific online meet the funder session around the Movement Fund, helping equip organisations with key information and advice to submit a successful application for the fund, and the opportunity to ask any questions. Sport England Movement Fund:
Opening School Facilities Network Event
Monday 2nd February 2026, 12:00–2:00pm (arrivals from 11:30am for refreshments); Failsworth Sports Campus
The session is designed to bring people together to connect, share ideas, and collaborate on opening school facilities. Whether you’re looking to learn, contribute, or make new connections, we hope you’ll find the session valuable.
Get your ticket here: Greater Manchester Opening School Facilities Network Event Tickets, Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
Newcastle University are undertaking an exciting piece of research into the experiences of older volunteers
At the moment, they're looking to survey anyone within the sector who manages older volunteers – they can be paid staff or volunteers who manage other volunteers and so could be relevant to some of your wider partners and stakeholders too. Any responses to this survey will be added to the core dataset and will strengthen the overall findings which will look across different sectors.
Based on the survey responses and their wider research, Bruce & Yang will identify and share good practices more widely with Sport England and other stakeholders.
For more detailed information about the project: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/cessationofvolunteering/
The survey is open until the end of January. To take part: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/cessation-of-volunteering-survey-duplicate
Free 42nd Street training targeting grassroots groups working with 11-25 year olds in Manchester
Here are the sessions on offer:
• Creative Training: Using Creative Approaches with a Trauma-Informed Lens
• Senior Leadership Trauma Training
• Social Media and Young People Training
Criteria for eligible organisations -
• Work with young people aged 11-25
• Be a VCSFE based in Manchester and support young people in Manchester
• Operate as micro-entities, working primarily within a specific area (such as five streets or hyper localities)
• Be established by members of the community
• Have an annual turnover of less than £200,000 per annum and be a micro enterprise (fewer than 10 employees)
For more info: https://www.42ndstreet.org.uk/news/article/free-training-supporting-young-people-s-mental-health-and-wellbeing
Engaging the social care workforce in person-centred care
4th February, 1.30-4.30pm
Friends' Meeting House (Manchester City Centre)
Join GM Moving and partners at our shared learning event on movement and physical activity in social care. We've got a fantastic set of speakers to explore the person-centred social care and physical activity and movement. Facilitated by Noisy Cricket’s Lauren Coulman, you can explore different views and hear about successes and failures. They'll also discuss practical actions you can take away.
The event will focus on how to enable workforce engagement in person-centred social care. We’ll learn about the impact of workforce engagement in person-centred care. This might be commissioning, partnerships, training or strategic investment in care workers.
There will also be space to network and chance to explore building community trust in healthcare.
Book now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/engaging-the-social-care-workforce-in-person-centred-care-tickets-1978410456934?aff=oddtdtcreator
More infomation on the above events: https://www.gmmoving.co.uk/get-involved/workshops-and-events/upcoming-training-and-events/