The GM Moving Podcast

Welcome to the last episode of the Right to the Streets edition of the GM Moving podcast. Throughout the whole of Right To The Streets initiative and across the last 16 episodes of the podcast, you’ve heard us say again and again that this is not the end.  Far from it:  it’s just the beginning, and, collectively, it feels like we've really started something. In this episode, we explore t...

Art and creativity are key ingredients in the Right to the Streets initiative, but why does public art matter, and can it really shift the perception of a place? In this episode, Eve is joined by Stretford Stride and OT Creative Space, two local organsations who worked closely with the community to co-design artisitc interventions that brought the streets of North Trafford to life. The poem you he...

Partnership working was the very backbone to the whole Right to the Streets initiative from the very start. Partnerships between cross sector and cross discipline organisations, groups and more informal social networks. In this episode, we're going to explore the strength of working with, investing in, and growing local partnerships in a neighbourhood, and how these relationships are the key to in...

In Manchester, we talk a lot about doing things differently. In this episode, you'll get a sense of what that looks like as we talk about using people-powered performance to influence policy. Join us as we explore the power of Legislative Theatre, one of the approaches that we took as part of the Right To The Streets project to speak directly to policy and decision-makers - the very people who cou...

As listeners to the GM Moving podcast, we think you will love the #IsThisOK Podcast. Real change begins with open and honest conversations. Listen in on crucial conversations between men about gender-based violence. A diverse range of guests, including our host Eve Holt, share their opinions in this 4 part series, hosted by Nooruddean Choudry. Visit their Linktree or watch on Youtube .

This Right To The Streets edition of the GM Moving podcast has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role in growing the Safer Streets movement, facilitating authentic conversations that not only helped to shape the project but ensured that their experiences, stories and ideas were heard by people much wider than the communities we worked in. This is the power of podcasts. In this episode, &nbs...

How can public campaigns disrupt the culture of street harassment and shift cultural norms? In this episode, Eve is joined by DIVA Creative - the marketing agency who worked with GM Moving to develop the public 'No Place For It' campaign - to discuss catalysing behaviour change to make our streets, parks, and public spaces safer, more welcoming and more joyful for everyone, especially women and gi...

In this episode of the Right to the Streets series of the GM Moving podcast, we explore different locally designed and locally led walking, wheeling and cycling activations, and how these support people to connect with one another and the places around them. These locally-focussed initiatives increase levels of participation, strength of social networks, the sense of community and individual confi...

What is an active bystander? How do they disrupt harassment against women and girls? And how do we become one? In the second episode of series four of The GM Moving Podcast, host Eve Holt is joined by Julie Tweedale from Freedom Personal Safety to talk about how they are tackling sexual harassment in Greater Manchester through active bystander training, and Nicole Zanchetti and Dave Green from Tra...

We all have a role to play in making our streets and public spaces safer for women and girls. In the fourth series of The GM Moving Podcast, we've got a second round of Right to the Streets episodes from North Trafford in Greater Manchester as we trailblaze a different approach to street harassment and gender-based violence in public spaces. Join us on a joyful journey of discovery as this series...

In the first episode of series four of The GM Moving Podcast, host Eve Holt explores all things data, to include what counts as data, who gets to decide how it can be collected and how it can be used to inform local community action. She speaks to colleagues at Open Data Manchester (ODM for short), one of the key delivery partners who steered and expertly managed the data-led approach to the initi...

This is the last episode of this current series of the Right To The Streets GM Moving podcast and we certainly couldn’t finish the series without exploring one of the biggest attractions in Trafford: sport.  The area is home to two of Greater Manchester’s biggest sporting venues, Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground and Lancashire Cricket Club, which have a combined seated capacity of abou...

How do young people experience our streets and public spaces and what role can they can play in making places more welcoming and joyful for everyone? In episode 7 of the Right to the Streets series of the GM Moving podcast, we are powerfully reminded of how far we still need to go to end, the normalisation of misogyny, racism, Islamophobia, and other forms of prejudice, discrimination and harassme...

Manchester is known around the world for its sports, culture and music venues. Trafford is home to some of the biggest concert venues including Lancashire Cricket Ground, Victoria Warehouse and Old Trafford Football Ground, all of which are popular venues for international artists and gig-goers. In episode 6 of the Right to the Streets series of the GM Moving podcast, we're joined by Trafford Coun...

What changes do we need to make to create the conditions, communication and cultural shifts that can better enable active lives for all in Greater Manchester? Welcome to the Right to the Streets series of The GM Moving Podcast, where we invite you to join the conversation about what makes our streets, parks, and public spaces joyful, welcoming places. In episode 5, we're focusing on what it actual...

Welcome to episode 4 of series 3 of The GM Moving Podcast. This is our Right to the Streets series where we invite you to join the conversation about what makes our streets, parks, and public spaces joyful, welcoming places. In this episode, we're talking all things public health. We head back to Old Trafford to chat to Reverend Christine Aspinall and a women's community group at St John's Centre...

More than two thirds of people in GM say they would walk and cycle more if they felt safer, which is especially true of women and girls. Welcome to episode 3 of series 3 of The GM Moving Podcast. This is our Right to the Streets series where we invite you to join the conversation about what makes our streets, parks, and public spaces joyful, welcoming places. In this episode, we head to Old Traffo...

How do public spaces and streets play a role in supporting active lives for all? How do long-term planning and urban design, to the more immediate changes that local people can make to make the place feel welcoming and cared for, support safer streets? Welcome to episode 2 of series 3 of The GM Moving Podcast. This is our Right to the Streets series where we invite you to join the conversation abo...

Welcome back to The GM Moving Podcast. This is our Right to the Streets series where we invite you to join the conversation about what makes our streets, parks, and public spaces joyful, welcoming places. In Episode 1 we're talking about crime and the community with Kate Green, Deputy Mayor for Greater Manchester, Jim Faulkner, a Superintendent with Greater Manchester Police, and Nazir Afzal, form...

The GM Moving Podcast is back with a bang for series 3 as we embark on our Right to the Streets project. Funded by the Home Office and supported by a network of local partners, Right to the Streets is working with people and communities in North Trafford to make our streets and public places safer for women and girls.

"Ultimately, we know we've got a whole network of people who are massively influencing for this agenda across the whole great Manchester... We need everybody in Greater Manchester to be supporting people to move more, whether that's in their community and their job, in their school or wherever, and we can't say we've done it until then." Hayley Lever, CEO of GreaterSport and GM Moving Exec Lead, a...

"People quite often get a bit nervous about telling stories and then they start and you discover how everybody has brilliant stories, everyone has some form of relationship to physical activity that is relatable to others. So just providing that space and that platform and that invite to share your story and know that that will resonate and that you can support others to then move a little bit mor...

"We need to be able to become more comfortable with the uncertainty that there is [...] I think we can learn about these patterns. We can learn about some of the things that seem to produce really interesting, exciting, new things, but we can't predict what those things are going to be, but we can have more certainty that we can work in ways that are conducive to supporting population levels and c...

"People don't necessarily fear change, they fear the loss associated with that change. So, if you're trying to work in a very different way, you can get resistance because it feels very counter-cultural to traditional ways of working. So just helping people to recognise that and give themselves a break and come up with some strategies to connect with people in different ways has been really helpfu...

"I'm always amazed at what people can come up with with five hundred pounds. It is absolutely incredible and I've seen examples where people will tell you this has actually been life changing." In episode 13 of The GM Moving Podcast, host Eve is joined by GM Moving's Engagement lead Kat to talk about the way that we engage and involve communities to co-design, co-produce, co-deliver, and ultimatel...