Mike Wild [he/him]

If you are involved in any sort of social change at a national, regional or local level, we want to hear from you!

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Just for context....

One trillion seconds is equal to more than 31,600 YEARS.

Assuming a 35 hour week, 1trillion a year is an hourly rate of over 549 million.

📣MDF are looking for a Lived Experience Project Worker to join them and help embed lived experience into their work and other MACC projects.

This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.

migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trophy made of silver metal in the shape of stars twirling up from a single larger star. On the base is written Dr Sylvia Sham Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Sector.

Tomorrow night is the Spirit of Manchester Awards 2025. Celebrating amazing community stories from across Manchester. Follow #SpiritOfMcr25 to find out who wins this trophy...

National roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system: a longitudinal observational study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink data Social prescribing has expanded rapidly in England, far exceeding initial targets of 900 000 patients by 2023–24, suggesting broad service acceptability. Progress is being made in reaching specific ta...

roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Rapid ⬆️ in Px
Doesn't appear to a rapid increase in the £ available for services to which people are referred
If this were referrals to orthopaedics that wouldn't be ok
not ok in this context

🍂 Don’t miss out – the deadline for GM Walking Grants is just days away! Your project could help people keep moving and connecting even as the weather turns colder.
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Chart showing average annual non-pensioner real household income growth, by income percentile: GB/UK

Britain has seen an acute living standards slowdown over the past 20 years.

This has affected incomes across the distribution.

A typical family today would be £20,000 richer if incomes had continued growing at the same rate since 2005, when the Foundation was founded.

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A row of market stalls with people looking at displays and chatting to each other.

Our Volunteer Fair on St Anne's Square is well underway. @mcrcommcentral.bsky.social

Assura Community Fund | Manchester Community Central

📢 VCSE orgs in GM: Could £5k help you deliver health & wellbeing projects for unpaid carers from global majority communities? Apply now 👉 buff.ly/FIsELxx
⏰ Deadline: 12PM, 30 Sept. Info session: 18 Sept, 12–1pm.

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...