Mike Wild [he/him]

Pay ratio disclosure alone won’t fix a system designed to reward shareholder returns over social value. Shifting away from shareholder-first business models would allow workplaces where power and profits are shared fairly. 2/2

Excessive CEO pay is no longer an outlier, it is systemic – a structural feature of our economy.

Mandatory reporting of how much more CEOs are being paid than their workers could challenge extreme wealth accumulation. But... 1/2

CEO pay at UK’s top companies is 52 times that of typical worker, report finds High Pay Centre thinktank says median pay of FTSE 350 chief executive was £2.4m in 2023-24 financial year

This pay ratio gap seems to grow bigger every time I read about it. It should be unacceptable.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Quote card with JRF chief exec Paul Kissack saying "Today's spending review had some welcome first steps on housing, child poverty and crisis support for the poorest people. These need to be backed by decisive action at the budget to improve living standards directly, along with stopping the cuts to disability benefits and delivering a strong child poverty strategy."

Earlier today, we heard the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP
set out details of the government's multi-year spending review.

She said it would 'ensure that renewal is felt in people's everyday lives'. 🔽

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Volunteering is not in decline. On the contrary, it is thriving in many grassroots organisations. But it is a different kind of relationship as I explain in this blog 👇

Season 11. Meet the Mancunian.

We are pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with @meetthemancunian.bsky.social podcast, hosted by Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe, for #SpiritOfMcr25! The podcast focuses on amplifying the voices of those making a difference in the community and spreading positive change in Greater Manchester.

We're hosting an event to launch the research we've done into the #ClimateAction work being done by local VCSE organisations.... booking details below

It's now a tradition of #VolunteersWeek that we announce the WINNER of the Spirit of Manchester Young Volunteer of the Year Award 2025.... #SpiritOfMcr25

Worth a read & a share.

Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP forecasts show Exclusive: Internal government forecasts obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘truly shocking’ effects of planned cuts

Truly shocking. 700,000 families already in poverty to be pulled even deeper by record cuts to disability support.

Newly released internal government figures lay bare the real extent of the cruel damage these cuts will inflict. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/society/2025....

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Statement on Supreme Court Ruling Today is a challenging day, and we are deeply concerned at the widespread, harmful implications of today’s Supreme Court ruling. As LGBT+ organisations across the country, we stand in solidarity with trans, intersex and non-binary folk as we navigate from here.

We need to take the time to digest the full implications of the Ruling and to understand what this will mean on both legal and practical levels, and will say more over the coming weeks. It is a complex Ruling but it is important to be reminded that the Supreme Court reaffirmed that the Equality Act protects trans people against discrimination, based on Gender Reassignment, and will continue to do so.

We will work across the LGBT+ sector, and with other organisations, to provide as much clarity as soon as is practicable. We will never stop working towards equal rights for all LGBT+ people www.lgbt.foundation/help

LGBT+ Sector Statement on Supreme Court Ruling

YouTube video by Silicon Curtain Maria Romanenko - Taking Breaks in Lviv Helps Influential Brits to Understand Ukrainian Resilience

Just recorded a great chat with Jonathan Fink on his @siliconcurtain.bsky.social podcast this week, alongside my partner Jez.

We spoke about our trips to #Lviv for British people, what’s happening in #Ukraine, and a few other bits too.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ATl8...

YouTube video by EDAS Scotland (EDAS) EDAS Community Wealth Building Video

New Scottish #communitywealthbuilding video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzb...

Sad news. We worked with Nick on running some Social Media Surgeries in Manchester some years ago. I remember him as a friendly, encouraging guy who was happy to share what he'd learned. RIP

🚨BREAKING: Today's Supreme Court judgment is disappointing.

Make no mistake, legal gender recognition is a human right.

We all have the right to live free from discrimination and fear. Trans rights are human rights.

Home Providing funding and support for Greater Manchester's foundational economy

GMCA’s Foundational Economy Innovation Fund is providing support to organisations in Greater Manchester’s “foundational economy”. This includes retail, hospitality, and leisure, as well as health & social care, early education, and childcare 👉

The Next Generation of Mutualism (SSIR) An ecosystem approach to investing in and supporting mutualist enterprises—from the ground up.

On just getting started - and building today's mutualist eco-system. As some of you know, I am more and more convinced this is a route for future public services - a bit more about it here from the brilliant Sara Horowitz @ssireview.bsky.social ssir.org/articles/ent...

🎟️ Tickets now on sale for CWB Summit 2025!
📅 3 July | 📍Manchester

Join changemakers, grassroots leaders and policymakers to explore how local democracy and community wealth building can shape fairer economies.

🎤 Andy Burnham, Grace Blakeley + more
🔗 cles.org.uk/events/cwb-s...

VCSE Data and Intelligence Peer Learning Network: How to approach data in smaller and less resourced VCSE organisations (co-design session) - 10GM We want the Greater Manchester VCSE Data and Intelligence Network to be a collective space with shared ownership. So we're happy to invite you all to our codesign session on 23 April to develop and…

Struggling with data in your small VCFSE organisation?

Help shape a session for the VCSE Data and Intelligence Peer Learning Network on tackling data challenges with limited resources. Join 10GM's online co-design event on 23rd April::

Today is the 5th anniversary of the death of my best friend Sue Murphy. RIP Sue. If you want to mark this anniversary by donating to causes close to Sue's heart, the details are here:
MASH- mash.org.uk/donate/
Reach Out to the Community- CIO - donate.giveasyoulive.com/donate?cid=2...

Especially true in minoritised communities. Time and again, faith organisations and under-resourced community groups are expected to be in the frontline of responding. It's freely given effort, but the constant reliance on it by other parts of the system looks uncomfortably close to exploitation.

Eid Mubarak. Moon and stars.

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating.

Quote from Tom Pollard, head of social policy: Today’s assessment confirms that ill and disabled people will see cuts to benefits amounting to around £6.5bn a year by 2029-30. Yet the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for Budget Responsibility between them have not yet been able to forecast any impact on employment outcomes. The government’s narrative to justify benefit cuts for ill and disabled people has completely fallen apart – it is clearer than ever that the real driver has been pressure to meet an arbitrary savings target.

This government's attempt to justify cutting benefits has completely fallen apart. They're slashing support for ill and disabled people to meet their arbitrary fiscal rules.

@pollardtom.bsky.social reacts to the cuts announced in the spring statement

The Chancellor said today that she would not do anything to put household finances in danger

Yet the government’s own assessment shows their cuts to health related benefits risk pushing 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children 📢

Their assessment also found... 1/3

Text from OBR document: Labour supply impact of Spring Statement welfare and employment support measures: We have not made a comprehensive assessment of the labour supply impacts of those elements of the Green Paper that we have incorporated into the fiscal forecast. The individual measures’ labour market impacts are complex to assess and would have interacting effects. The Government did not provide us with a comprehensive and robust analysis of these potential effects, and we were not, in the very limited time available, able to develop our own analysis of their net impact on labour supply. In addition, some of the wider Green Paper reforms set out above, which are not included in the fiscal forecast, could also have labour market implications. We will make a full assessment of the Green Paper policies’ effects ahead of our next forecast

The OBR has not yet been able to forecast any employment gain from the cuts/changes to incapacity & disability benefits

MPs are being asked to support around £6.5bn of cuts & increased conditionality for ill & disabled people without any clear assessment of what it will achieve

Stealth social security cuts bring neither stability nor security to struggling families and will push child poverty even higher. Growth and better living standards are not achieved by taking money from families with the least...

Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for many

Tens of thousands of people will be hit by “knock-on impact” of PIP cuts. Unpaid carers face losing carer’s allowance if their family member loses eligibility for disability benefits - a devastating double loss.

Me and @patrickjbutler.bsky.social report. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Made in Manchester: Ardwick-born Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947), MP for Jarrow, played a big part in the 1936 Jarrow March of the unemployed to London to petition for the right to work, and became minister of education in the 1945 Labour government. 1/6