It’s World Suicide Prevention Day and, as last year, I wanted to reflect on my own experience of this often-avoided topic. Last year I wrote about the impact of referring to a suicide attempt as “failed” and how it ought to be described as “survived”. This feeds in nicely with the theme of this years […]
Dear A, How are you? Hope you are ok and healthy and full of laughter, love and happiness. I want us to reflect on the past year. I want us to talk about our domestic violence situation that somehow, we ended up facing together. Let me introduce myself to you. First an apology, I thought […]
Hi all, my name is Amina Dualeh, I am the Programme Administrator at Inspiring Change Manchester [ICM]. I joined the team in March 2021, and I can honestly say that I wish I had joined earlier. I have been working at Shelter as a Service Administrator, where my language skills have come in useful for […]
For the last 2 years ICM has been working with Groundswell (www.groundswell.org.uk/) to help us to reflect on our coproduction journey and consider, as a City, where we should be going next. A lot has happened in that time and the world feels like a slightly different place now but through it all we didn’t […]
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme this year is nature. According to the Mental Health Foundation: “ When it comes to mental health benefits, nature has a very wide definition. It can mean green spaces such as parks, woodland or forests as well as blue spaces like rivers, wetlands, beaches or canals. It also […]
Our ICM Art and Wellbeing group have collaborated with arts organisations Arthur & Martha on three projects over the past six months. We began working together back in September 2020 when Phil Davenport joined the group on Zoom to deliver a poetry workshop. That week’s theme was ‘swans’ and was inspired by the Swan Buildings […]
Shelter is looking for a new GROW Trainee to be based at the LGBTQ+ youth charity akt. We’re looking for people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage (including but not limited to; homelessness, the criminal justice system, mental ill-health and substance misuse), who are passionate about using their own experiences to help make positive change […]
Background Inspiring Change Manchester is one of 12 Fulfilling Lives Programmes, funded by National Lottery Community Fund, exploring multiple disadvantage. We are an 8-year learning and development programme, working to instigate system change by modelling service innovations and best practice to develop equitable services for people excluded in the system. The films we are creating are […]
Earlier this year two ‘tribes’ of women came together to deliver a week of activities to celebrate women as part of International Women’s Day on the 8th of March 2021 and explore this year’s theme ‘choose to challenge’. “It came at a perfect time for me, not been involved in anything, despite wanting to” “Right […]
ICM are currently busy planning the final year of the GROW Trainee programme. In doing so we have been reflecting on our last recruitment cycle back in November, which saw us welcome four new GROW Trainees to the ICM team. This year we have Lily based at Back on Track, Steve on the Housing First […]
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