Previous 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 summaries of some of the work we’ve been involved in.
10GM and GM Moving Test and Learn Investments in Action
From 2023-2025, 10GM invested £200,000 across two communities in Greater Manchester to test how community-based approaches can support people to move more. Working alongside GM Moving and Sport England’s Connected Communities strategy, we partnered with Groundwork Wigan and Bury VCFA to explore what it really takes to build active, connected communities from the ground up.
Recovery Communities Project
Peer-led recovery communities are powerful, life-changing spaces set up and run by people with lived experience of addiction. They offer vital support, but many struggle for funding and recognition.
Funded by Changing Futures in partnership with Gaddum and 10GM, this project gathered evidence to show the value of peer-led recovery communities in Greater Manchester, with an aim to lobby commissioners and funders to provide long-term investment into these groups.
Unpaid Caregiving in the Sandwich Generation
People with caring responsibilities for both older and younger family members, often called the ‘sandwich generation’, carry much of the brunt of unpaid caring. Initiated by GMCVO and carried forward by 10GM, this joint project was developed in collaboration with policy and practice experts, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of Greenwich. It contributes important knowledge about the experiences of sandwich generation carers, aiming to unlock additional caring capacity for the NHS and future support for these under-recognised carers and their communities. Find out more by reading the study or graphic zine.
VCSE Workforce Development Programme
75,610 paid staff work alongside 496,609 volunteers in Greater Manchester’s VCSE organisations. Most of these organisations face workforce challenges. Collaborating with our VCSE colleagues, this programme aimed to develop the capacity, capability, and employment standards across the paid and voluntary VCSE workforce in Greater Manchester.
The programme established a workforce development and recruitment hub
Healthy Start Uptake
Healthy Start is a scheme which provides coupons for vitamins and vouchers to buy fruit, vegetables and milk. The scheme is open to all pregnant people and families with children aged 4 years or under, provided that they receive one of a number of qualifying benefits and have a low income. 10GM worked in collaboration with NHS, VCSE and public sector partners to increase uptake and improve policy around the digitalisation of the scheme. We lobbied for a more streamlined and accessible application process and were commissioned by Citizens Advice GM to create a train-the-trainer resource.
GM VCSE Home from Hospital Programme
With funding from the Greater Manchester NHS Integrated Care, we supported the VCSE sector in Greater Manchester in their important role in helping people to get home from hospital, helping them recover at home, and preventing hospital readmission.
The Home from Hospital Programme up-scaled and enhanced the existing response to discharge pressures by increasing collaborative working between the VCSE sector and hospital systems. We delivered a number of outcomes during this programme, including a Best Practice Model, a short-term VCSE Home from Hospital Targeted Investment Fund, a number of case studies, and a map of services.
As part of the programme, we also supported the VCSE Hospital Discharge Alliance, which is now supported by the Adult Social Care Transformation Team at NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care.
GM Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Network
From April 22 to September 23, 10GM worked with NHS GM ICS to maintain and improve
spaces for peer support and informal learning related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. The Greater Manchester FASD Network is a collective of parents, carers, and community organisations united by a common interest in FASD. 10GM collaborated with the Greater Manchester FASD Network to: Expand their membership and visibility across Greater Manchester; Offer guidance on GM FASD strategy and implementation; Create and execute a series of FASD awareness activities led by individuals with lived experience.
A report outlining the project’s activities and highlighting key insights can be read here.
Museum Volunteering Development Programme
Working with the Museum Development UK, 10GM provided intensive support for 20 museums in the UK to review their operating models and ensure they have sustainable and responsive volunteering. We provided supportive sessions with peers, coaching, network building, training and online workshops.
Find out more about the programme.
This project was delivered by the 10GM Partner organisation, Macc, on behalf of 10GM.
COVID-19 Response
10GM has reinforced the VCSE sector’s role in supporting our communities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We continue to engage with our sector and public sector colleagues to highlight and mitigate the long-term impact of COVID-19 on our sector and local communities.
Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise Sector organisations across Greater Manchester undertook research to capture the impact of COVID-19, and the lockdown,on the people they support and local communities.
Women’s Support Services
Working with Flourish CIC as an impartial organisation for this work, 10GM listened to the voices of women and women’s organisations, to develop services for vulnerable and marginalised women. These women may have accessed (or need to access) several services, and are at risk of being a perpetrator or victim of crime.
The report should be used alongside the learning and recommendations of pre-existing local research and insight.FlourishCIC produced a podcast capturing the discussions.
Big Alcohol Conversation
Alcohol-related harm costs Greater Manchester’s public services £1.3 billion a year. 10GM worked with GMCVO to listen to the people of Greater Manchester as part of the Big Alcohol Conversation (BAC). The exercise allowed BAC to learn more about the role of alcohol in their lives and communities. The work gathered their opinions on ways to secure a safer approach to alcohol and ways to reduce alcohol-related harm.
Make Smoking History
10GM led a partnership project to deliver focus groups to understand public support for the Making Smoking History (MSH) strategy. The work explored detailed measures such as extending smoke-free spaces or licensing tobacco retailers.
Participants of the focus groups were from diverse, marginalised, and under-represented communities.
10GM led this work on behalf of the GM VCSE Devolution Reference Group.
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