Our Journey to date

The Right to the Streets initiative started in September 2022 and has continued to grow. This page looks back at some of the key activities which took place in the first 12 months

In 2022, Greater Manchester Moving were awarded £490,448 through the Home Office Safer Streets Fund to make the streets safer for women and girls through tackling gender-based violence and harassment.

The fund allowed us to work at a dedicated pace from September 2022-2023.

Working alongside local people, partners, and system leaders, Right to the Streets aims to not only raise awareness of issues such as Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and street harassment, but to take action by trailing interventions that enable women and girls, and boys and men, to be active citizens in their communities, equipped with the tools, information, networks and agency to stop VAWG, and reclaim their right to the streets. 

Right to the Streets is a movement for movement to make streets, parks, and public spaces safe, joyful, and welcoming places where everyone is invited to be active and move about freely, and you're invited to be part of it.

Emma Moseley, Policy Officer at Trafford Council gives a fantastic overview of the work in her article published on the LGiU website. Read the article here.

 

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What we've done so far:

We offered community grants to 21 successful projects who are passionate about making public places fun, joyful, and welcoming for all.

Their activities included football sessions, bushcraft workshops, audio trails, walking groups, cycling sessions, yoga in the park, forest bathing, and many more.

These were in addition to the creative workshops and projects hosted by seven local arts organisations, which consisted of parades, photography, poetry, mural painting, discos and family fun days.

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Here's what else we got up to: 

  • Bystander intervention and allyship training to empower people to make informed decisions when witnessing gender-based violence, hate crime, or street harassment, emphasising that anyone and everyone can be allies in tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). We're delighted to have worked in partnership with Freedom Personal Safety to deliver these sessions in the local community
  • Workshops delivered in the local community to help inform the project campaign, organised walks, arts installations, and project evaluation
  • Organised walks led by Open Data Manchester with local residents to identify and understand common routes and locations based on lived experience and perceptions of safety. Here's one we did as part of the GM Walking Festival this year
  • Creative art installations around the local area co-designed by arts organisations and people in the community to make the streets more welcoming. The chosen streets will be informed by the organised walks and other learnings
  • Walking, wheeling and cycling initiatives to encourage more engagement and participation in active travel, including co-designing and producing new walking, wheeling, and cycling maps with local people and Love Old Trafford
  • A podcast series to amplify local voices and hear from system partners about the work currently taking place in and around Greater Manchester to tackle violence against women and girls. Listen to the first series here