The GM Moving Podcast
by Greater Manchester Moving
Sharing reflections, tips and stories from people leading, learning, connecting and moving in Greater Manchester as we aim to enable active lives for all.Get in touch: [email protected] us on Twitter: @GMMoving
Episodes
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What's next?
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…
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How public arts shift perception in place
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…
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Local partnerships in action
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…
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Using people-powered performance to influence policy
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...
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#IsThisOK Podcast
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...
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Using podcasts to tell the story
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...
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How can public campaigns shift cultural norms?
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…
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Enabling more people to walk, wheel and cycle
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...
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The power of bystander intervention
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…
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Why does participatory data collection matter?
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…
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Series 4 - Right to the Streets 2 - coming soon!
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…
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Sports - Right to the Streets
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…
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Young People - Right to the Streets
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...
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Culture and Nightlife - Right to the Streets
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.…
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Active Lives - Right to the Streets
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...
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Public Health - Right to the Streets
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...
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Active Travel - Right to the Streets
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...
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Public Space Design - Right to the Streets
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...
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Crime - Right To The Streets
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...
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The GM Moving Podcast: Right to the Streets trailer
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…
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Bonus episode: How far we've come
"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…
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Catalysts: Marketing and Communications - GM Moving in Action
"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…
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Catalysts: Monitoring and Evaluation - GM Moving in Action
"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…
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Catalysts: People and Leadership - GM Moving in Action
"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...
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Catalysts: Engagement - GM Moving in Action
"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...
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Bury - GM Moving in Action
"It's okay to test and learn and fail. And if it fails, there's still massive learning that we can take from that [...] Let's take the learning, whether it's good or bad, as long as we're feeding that learning back into the process, we can discuss it as a group, and we can learn from that." In...
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Glossop - GM Moving in Action
"When you start off on a project that you think is targeted at that level of community or age group or cohort people, but then actually it spirals out and you get these wins [...] it's an added bonus." Eve Holt talks to Helen, Glossop's Local Pilot lead, about how they are helping people out of...
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Tameside - GM Moving in Action
"We've got a great local resource that's been co-designed by people, but that relationship that's left in place now [...] is going to leave a bit of a legacy." Eve is joined by Local Pilot lead Annette to discuss Tameside's borough-wide approach to physical activity and their particular focus on...
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Trafford - GM Moving in Action
"We're still learning about how to get to people and through all the noise of different things that challenges people's lives." Eve is joined by Tom Haworth, Trafford Council, and Richard, GreaterSport, to talk about how they are making connections, building relationships, and creating energy for...
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Oldham - GM Moving in Action
"So often we hear everything just stops during Ramadan. But these ladies have gone on a journey whereby they really know how important one that social interaction, and also having that walk. And even though they were fasting, they've not had water for so many hours. They were still going out for…
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Stockport - GM Moving in Action
"Sometimes it can quite easily slip through the net and people don't always see that journey of things that happened. So I certainly can’t, and wouldn't want to take the credit. It has been this partnership community approach, and hopefully we can continue with that ethos." Here, we hear about…
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Manchester - GM Moving in Action
"We didn't know if anyone would turn up and we had probably 25 plus ladies that came through the door. Many couldn't cycle, but they were just really eager to hear more and they wanted to learn to ride a bike. It was like a real thing they wanted to achieve." In this episode, Angela Martin and...
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Salford - GM Moving in Action
"We've talked about retrofitting to people's homes around energy efficiency, we've talked about retrofitting people's cars potentially around emissions, but it's almost getting to the point well actually we need to almost retrofit and make some of our roads and our places more accessible." Host…
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Rochdale - GM Moving in Action
“We did some ladies only cycling sessions, we linked in with six different partners and it probably took us six months to get that up and running. Those ladies voices haven't been heard before and we really started to link in to the community and spoke to them... We've had 80 ladies take part in...
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Wigan - GM Moving in Action
"For me it's the frustrations that Wigan was in a good place. We had the deal, we'd had all the networks, we had the steering group, everything was there." In this episode, Eve is joined at the Manchester Central Library by Chris Essex-Crosby, from Inspiring healthy lifestyles in Wigan, and…
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Bolton - GM Moving in Action
"The Power of the Community was so successful that behaviour change happened instantly....We threw the rule book out of the window." Host Eve Holt speaks to Tracy Lumer, Public Health specialist at Bolton Council, about the approach they've taken in Bolton and how the Local Pilot ways of working...
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Greater Manchester - GM Moving in Action
"I'd say we're the test and learn...when things go wrong we don't get told off for it, we are praised for it, as long as we learn or reflect or go back and try something different." GM Moving podcast is back for series 2, and this time our host, Eve Holt, speaks to Locality Leads from across...
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S2: Series 2 Trailer
The GM Moving podcast is back, take a listen of what to expect from series 2.
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S1 Ep14: Tackling racism in sport and physical activity
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S1 Ep13: Walking The Greater Manchester Way
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S1 Ep12: We are Undefeatable
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S1 Ep11: Cycling to serve your community
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S1 Ep10: The importance of co-producing solutions for those living in poverty
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S1 Ep9: Getting Greater Manchester walking
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S1 Ep8: An organisational approach to employee wellbeing during covid lockdown
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S1 Ep7: Being kind to ourselves to support our mental wellbeing
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S1 Ep6: Creating healthy and active places
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S1 Ep5: Working across all layers in the system to enable disabled people to move more
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S1 Ep4: Using the lessons of lockdown to ensure a more inclusive future
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S1 Ep3: Keeping older adults moving and connected with their communities
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About this show
Sharing reflections, tips and stories from people leading, learning, connecting and moving in Greater Manchester as we aim to enable active lives for all.Get in touch: [email protected] us on Twitter: @GMMoving
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