Dilraj Kaur Rachel Nicholls Jamie Jones Andrew NPT Tim Roberts Alexandra Podd Tim Hall Daniel Mackintosh Sarah Young Sarah Collins 🐝 Strength to you and solidarity from everyone at Greater Manchester Citizens

Best of luck Dilraj Kaur! Hoping you have a wonderful founding assembly in Peterborough. People still remember ours with Greater Manchester Citizens 5 years ago fondly, such an important milestone and excited to see your chapters journey 👏🏼

And here’s something we have achieved in Year 1: every GM uni has committed to paying a real #LivingWage addressing the #CostOfLivingCrisis , in-work poverty and the health and wellbeing for thousands of GM citizens.
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Happy Diwali to our friends, colleagues, and members who celebrate! We hope this special time of year brings you and your loved ones happiness, joy, and light. 🕯️✨

Saeed Greater Manchester Citizens Fergie Ian Rutherford Central Hall Manchester A very informative, inspiring and insightful day spent in the company of passionate and caring people.
Well done Saeed Greater Manchester Citizens @Furquan_Naeem

Always lovely to have Saeed joining us from Citizens UK B'ham sharing stories of agitation and neighbourhood wins. Today we focussed on how to do effective listening ahead of our Delegates Assembly.

Shannon Fitzgerald (She/Her) Definitely - excited to see Greater Manchester Citizens going deep with organising. Team SENsitive represented today with powerful input on the fight parents face in securing right help from public agencies!

Great to be in Manchester to join Greater Manchester Citizens for your 1 day local 'Intro to Community Organising' training. Delivered by Fergie + hosted by Revd Ian Rutherford & the fab team at the 'best Methodist Central Hall in the land' Central Hall Manchester.

Join us this Friday for our ‘Introduction to Community Organising’ training hosted at Central Hall Manchester 9.30am - 4.30pm. We are also opening this up to non-members to get an understanding of our training. Please do register here - eventbrite.co.uk/e/gm-citizens-… Citizens UK

Time for change: Action Not Words

This #BlackHistoryMonth , we'll be spotlighting incredible stories & campaigns won by black leaders who created change in their communities through organising. While this month is vital, it's important our learning is not capped to one month.

'We're introducing the new Living Wage rates this month. We see a value in that. It brings out the best in our staff, it increases productivity, makes us more efficient, so we're quite happy to do that.'

Chris Smallwood of anchorremovals on why they pay the real #LivingWage .

Good to see a report coming to Trafford Council showing the great progress made by Andrew Western and Trafford Labour in achieving the Living Wage Foundation for social care workers. If you're in home care and day services in Trafford you should be receiving the Foundation Living Wage!

In case you missed it, we were thrilled to be shortlisted, and to have won an award at #SpiritofMcr22 - you can read more about it now on our website here: caritassalford.org.uk/news/teams-hon…

It's been an incredible #SpiritofMcr22 hearing the amazing work going on in our city.

We were thrilled that our Cornerstone & Morning Star teams were shortlisted & our Connecting Older People team were winners too.

Thanks to everyone involved in a fabulous event.

Great to be with dr julian skyrme Dee-Ann Johnson and Mags Bradbury from SocialResponsibility at #SpiritofMCR22
Looking forward to continuing conversations on civic engagement, social justice and student support and working together on our collective priorities in Greater Manchester Citizens

#parnership

Great #SpiritofMCR22 at Whitworth Hall.
Shout out to all the great volunteers at GMCC, Befrienders, MSM, WAST, Carisma and Lifeshare all operating from Central Hall Manchester

#coworking #socialjustice

It's now time for our next award shortlisting - our Cornerstone and Morning Star teams are nominated next. Please do vote if you're online. #SpiritofMcr22