Greater Manchester Live Well Podcast

Looking ahead to a future where everyone can live well, every day. What will it take to make this way of working that everyday reality across Greater Manchester? Explore what happens when systems enable community action, community power, and community wealth to grow. Where devolving power and funding means communities thrive, inequalities reduce, and everyday support becomes accessible, inclusive,...

What happens when systems start to share power? They shift from fixers to working in genuine partnership with communities, with better results. What happens when we rethink culture and control and build power within communities? When we create spaces for change and grow system leaders’ capacity to act on community voice, insights and ideas? Hear how councils, funders and services are helping commu...

Dive into what’s strong in Greater Manchester neighbourhoods – knowledge, skills and experience - and how growing this leads to lasting change. What has community power got to do with people living a good life? We’ll discuss how solutions grown with communities lead to better outcomes. Hear from people across Greater Manchester shaping their neighbourhoods and creating spaces where people feel saf...

Explore growing power, sharing resources and creating the conditions for happy, healthy lives - what systems can do to create community wealth. From participatory grant-making to local funds, how collaboration, trust and community ownership are transforming how money and opportunity flow. Featuring funders, councils, health, voluntary sector and community organisations, this is a discussion about...

Explore how growing community wealth, opportunities and ownership moves us from fixing problems to preventing them — together. What happens when communities have ownership of ideas, spaces, decisions and local enterprise? This episode explores how health and wealth are deeply connected and why thriving communities need control of resources. We’ll hear how communities are reclaiming spaces, reshapi...

Explore what happens when public services trust communities to lead, working alongside them to create better, fairer outcomes. How do we grow a system that helps everyone thrive, not just survive? Places to meet, connect and belong are the backbone of thriving communities, strengthening wellbeing and opportunity. We’ll explore how communities and public services can work side by side to grow this...

Explore what happens when communities take action and lead everyday local support. Community action is the heartbeat of our neighbourhoods — where peer support groups, taxi drivers, barbers, neighbours and volunteers are stepping up, connecting and creating change. This episode is filled with stories of our communities showing up for each other, friendly faces and places for people to turn to with...

Discover how Greater Manchester is doing things differently — creating everyday support that starts with people, not systems. Live Well is reimagining everyday support, tackling inequalities by supporting the person and not just waiting to treat the condition or crisis. Residents, communities, public service leaders and the Mayor of Greater Manchester share why it’s time to find new ways of suppor...

Discover a new way of doing things in Greater Manchester - with people, not to them. Welcome to The Greater Manchester Live Well Podcast — a new series about doing things differently. Hosted by Andy Burnham (Mayor of Greater Manchester), Folashade Alonge (GM Shapers) and the GM Live Well team, this eight-part series brings together 100 voices from across our city region. Live Well is Greater Manch...