Current Work
10GM’s partnerships open the door to thousands of Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations across Greater Manchester. Our extensive experience of collaborating allows us to work with a diverse range of frontline groups to reach grassroots communities.
We’re a partnership of Local Infrastructure Organisations (LIOs). Our intellectual capital, co-design expertise, engagement insights, and networks allow us to act as catalyst and connector. We are a trusted, independent broker and facilitator within the VCSE sector; within communities; at local authority and at GM level.
Here you’ll find a short summary of our current work. To get involved or find out more, please get in touch.
The Greater Manchester VCFSE Accord
The GM VCFSE Accord Agreement is a three-way collaboration agreement between the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and the Greater Manchester Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector (often abbreviated to VCSE).
As part of The Accord, 10GM member organisations, Action Together, Bolton CVS, Manchester Community Central, and Salford CVS are founding members of the GM VCFSE Leadership Group, which acts as the VCSE sector’s voice at a Greater Manchester level. 10GM ensures that local voices are represented and able to shape the Leadership Group’s work. This includes sharing information and opportunities, promoting positive change and collaboration within the VCSE sector, and creating a social movement for change that empowers the communities of Greater Manchester.
10GM represents the sector in several subgroups of The Accord, and provides Officer support to the Leadership Group.
The Accord: Population Health and Health Inequalities
10GM works with partners from Population Health, Primary Care Networks and the wider VCSE sector to find innovative ways of tackling health inequalities. Part of this involves supporting the work of the VCSE Population Health subgroup of the Leadership Group; linking wider VCSE sector colleagues into the VCSE sector at the Fairer Health For All programme, and accelerating the Live Well movement.
We supported the work of the Core20Plus5 national pilot in Greater Manchester and our established Test and Learn Sites to explore how the VCSE sector and GPs can build lasting relationships that help them work together to tackle health inequalities.
The Accord: Commissioning and Investment
10GM supports the work of the VCFSE Commissioning Group, which is a formal sub-group of the GM VCSE Leadership Group. It aims to work in partnership and collaboration with cross-sector colleagues to support the delivery of the VCFSE Commissioning Framework, by driving forward the Commissioning and Investment ambitions of the Accord, and also being responsive to current events. 10GM Director, Alison Page is the co-chair of the group and is supported by staff at 10GM to lobby to create new opportunities and investment and position the VCFSE Sector as a key design and delivery partner within Greater Manchester systems.
Find out more about Commissioning and Investment.
The Accord: Ecosystem and Localities
As part of our quest to build the strongest VCSE Ecosystem in the country, 10GM leads the work on Ecosystem and Localities (locality engagement and infrastructure), to grow the VCSE infrastructure capacity to better support and develop the VCSE ecosystem. Strong local infrastructure enables communities to influence decision-making, build partnerships and networks, and encourage volunteering opportunities. When this support is accessible locally, individuals and communities thrive.
We facilitate monthly meetings of the Greater Manchester VCSE Local Infrastructure Organisations, which enable collaboration on GM-level projects, joint influencing of GM agendas, peer support, and information sharing.
This work is linked to the Greater Manchester VCSE Infrastructure Development Programme.
The Accord: GM Alternative Provider Collaborative
The Alternative Provider Collaborative (APC) is a partnership of social enterprises and charitable organisations that deliver NHS services across Greater Manchester.
It works together creatively to tackle health inequalities in the city region. While Greater Manchester has a strong VCSE sector providing a range of NHS and Public Health services in localities, many struggle to scale up across Greater Manchester and to integrate within the wider NHS ecosystem. The APC brings these organisations together and provides an infrastructure to enable them to engage with the newly formed Greater Manchester Integrated Care System (ICS).
10GM is a founding member and provides administrative and management support.
Changing Futures
Changing Futures is a Greater Manchester programme, led by Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), and working in partnership with 10GM and other organisations across the VCSE and statutory sector, to improve the way that local systems and services work for adults experiencing multiple disadvantage.
10GM supports the work by strengthening partnerships, collaborations and existing initiatives, and cultivating the spaces for all localities in Greater Manchester to address multiple disadvantage collaboratively, and with a whole system mindset.
Cancer and Inequalities
10GM is working with GM Cancer Alliance to achieve a permanent reduction in inequalities and inequity within Greater Manchester, addressing the social, environmental, and economic determinants of health and wellbeing, with the aim to ensure active VCSE participation and parity in strategic work to enhance equality, equity and wellbeing.
With funding from the GM Cancer Alliance, we have supported a large number of Greater Manchester organisations to deliver innovative projects that raise awareness of the early signs and symptoms of cancer and identify and understand the barriers people face when receiving a cancer diagnosis.
We have formed a network of VCSE organisations that are interested in, or already working with, people affected by cancer in their communities. It provides a place to share the voices of people with lived experience, challenges faced by our communities, learn from each other, and promotes opportunities to participate and influence the cancer care system.
Community Voices Programme: Listening and Taking Action for Health Equity
Launching soon
The Community Voices Programme will enhance the Greater Manchester VCFSE sector’s ability to listen to and gather the voices of local people who experience the worst health outcomes and health inequalities and face marginalisation and exclusion, so that these can be listened to and acted on by decision-makers in the Greater Manchester NHS. In order to build a better understanding of what is important to people/communities about how the health system works and their priorities, the programme will:
- Grant-fund trusted community groups and grassroots organisations to develop their peer-led insight-gathering techniques.
- Create local VCFSE capacity to pull together insight and share this with local and GM NHS partners, to influence their strategy.
- Improve two-way information flows between our communities and our health services.
We’ll share more information about this programme when we can. To find out more about what’s happening in your area, contact your local infrastructure organisation or get in touch.
Communities Addressing Gambling Harm
The Communities Addressing Gambling Harms programme, funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, supports VCSE organisations working with communities most affected by inequality to take practical, community‑led action on gambling harms. The programme offers organisations a £2,500 one‑off grant to develop initiatives that prevent and reduce gambling‑related harm. Alongside funding, organisations receive a package of support, including co‑design and collaboration workshops, gambling harms awareness training from Chapter One, reflective learning sessions and input from people with lived experience, helping them build confidence, awareness and the skills to start conversations with people at risk.
This programme is delivered by Manchester Community Central on behalf of 10GM.
Greater Manchester Moving
Greater Manchester Moving (GM Moving) is GM’s social movement for movement – everyone working together to positively change the lives of people across Greater Manchester through sport, physical activity, or quite simply moving more.
10GM’s role is to embed effective and meaningful engagement with communities and VCSE partners to accelerate system change and community leadership. Manchester Community Central, on behalf of 10GM, is leading GM Moving’s systems leadership approach.
GM Walking and Wheeling Grants
We’ve worked with GM Walking to get grants to VCSE groups to encourage people who are usually less active to increase the amount they walk or wheel in winter. Grants fund groups to work with communities to embed walking into the daily routine of Greater Manchester’s residents.
This grant is managed by Salford CVS, on behalf of 10GM.
Live Well
Being able to Live Well means different things to different people.
For some, it’s having a voice in decisions about their own life. For others, it’s about purpose, a decent job, a warm home, supportive relationships, or simply having enough money to get by.
The Live Well movement is about ensuring everyone in Greater Manchester has the chance to be healthy, happy and socially connected. It’s a vision where communities have the resources, information and support they need to drive change and shape community-led health and wellbeing.
The VCSE sector is central to this. Local voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations are rooted in communities, trusted by the people they serve, and play a crucial role in breaking down barriers to Living Well — whether those barriers are financial, social, cultural, or linked to disability, housing or access to opportunities.
We’re working with VCSE and public sector colleagues to shape and codesign Live Well, and lobbying to ensure communities have the resources they need to scale up to provide this support. We are also working with colleagues across the region to secure long-term resources, ensuring our sector is resilient and sustainable.
GMCA Inspire Fund
We’re working with GMCA to provide grants of up to £2,000 to freelance and independent artists and small organisations to support the re-growth and strengthening of the creative sector in Greater Manchester.
The GMCA Inspire Fund is managed by Salford CVS, on behalf of 10GM.
Social Economy Programme
10GM is supporting Greater Manchester’s growing social economy organisations to deliver an alternative way of doing business in Greater Manchester.
Working with Local Infrastructure Organisations (LIOs) across GM, we’re offering bespoke specialist support to social economy organisations such as cooperatives, social enterprises, community businesses and registered charities. GM’s LIOs have a deep understanding of the complexity of the Greater Manchester social ecosystem and have the specific knowledge and experience needed to support this sector.
In conjunction, our collaborators at Cooperatives UK have developed Our Business GM, which provides a place to discover, connect, and showcase businesses that put people and communities first.
Year 1 and 2 of this project is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Year 3 through the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
VCSE Infrastructure Development Programme
The E11 VCSE Infrastructure Development Programme will run until 2025, and is building up Greater Manchester’s VCSE infrastructure capacity and capability in each borough, identifying and addressing gaps, and sharing good practice.
This project is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Work entirely delivered by 10GM Partner Organisations, on behalf of 10GM
Community-Led Violence Reduction
Communities have a deep understanding of their areas — they often know the challenges and where opportunities for prevention lie. It’s important that statutory services listen to and work with our communities, and we’re here to support that.
Since 2022, we’ve been working with The Greater Manchester Combined Authority Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) to deliver a programme of community-led approaches to violence reduction. The programme works with young people aged 10- 25 years, and their families.
This work is delivered by Bolton CVS, on behalf of 10GM.
Answer Cancer
Answer Cancer is a partnership working to improve cancer awareness and increase the uptake of cancer screening across Greater Manchester. We achieve this via grants, delivering cancer screening awareness sessions, supporting a network of Cancer Champions, and providing training.
Answer Cancer is delivered by Salford CVS, on behalf of 10GM.
Achieve Recovery
We’re working with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and a wider partnership to support people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction through the Achieve Recovery project. Achieve Recovery has made small awards to assist individual people and grants for VCSE organisations to deliver local projects in Salford and Trafford.
To help support the recovery community, Achieve workers, and their clients, Salford CVS has created a directory with information on 2023-24 funded organisations, the activities they are providing, and contact details of key contacts.
This project is managed by Salford CVS, on behalf of 10GM.
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If you’d like to find out more about 10GM’s work, or you’d like to get involved in our work.
