The GM Moving Podcast
The GM Moving Podcast exists to share reflections, tips and stories from the people leading, learning, connecting and moving in Greater Manchester.
Our movement for movement welcomes all organisations and individuals supporting our ambition of active lives for all and we're delighted to have welcomed many of them onto the podcast since 2020.
You can listen to The GM Moving Podcast wherever you normally listen to podcasts, or through using the links below.
Series 4 - Right to the Streets
The third and fourth series of The GM Moving Podcast focuses solely on the Right to the Streets movement in Trafford.
Further details please contact
- Imogen Halls
Project Lead - [email protected]
- 07765407978
We spoke to people and partners about how the movement has grown and developed across the borough, the big difference it's making locally, and everything that we have learned along the way.
We heard the experiences and gathered ideas and solutions for improvement from council leaders, charities, community groups and others as they shift the dial from fear to freedom.
Latest Episodes:
Series 4 Episode 9: 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, and, collectively, it feels like we've really started something.
In this episode, we explore the longer term changes people want to see and how this work can continue to influence wider change across whole systems, from communities, through to policy makers and national government.
Series 4 Episode 8: 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 to co-design artisitc interventions that brought the streets of North Trafford to life.
The poem you hear is by Maya Chowdhury and Young Identity.
Series 4 Episode 7: 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, investing in, and growing local partnerships in a neighbourhood, and how these relationships are the key to inspiring and enabling community-led action.
Series 4 Episode 6: Why does participatory data collection matter?
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 could then influence changes, at a strategy level, that would help to create safer public spaces for everyone, with a focus on women and girls.
Previous Series:
Series 1 - Covid-19, response and recovery
During the spring and summer of 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we launched The GM Moving Podcast. We held a number of conversations with partners across the Greater Manchester system to hear their thoughts on our progress towards a more active city region.
Series 2 - GM Moving in Action in a place
In August 2022 the GM Moving podcast returned for series 2 and explored place-based working to enable people to get moving.
We have an episode from each locality where they share how they've been working, what's worked, what's not, and what they've learnt so far. The first episode launched on Thursday 11 August.
Series 3 - Initiating the Right to the Streets movement
The GM Moving podcast returned for series 3 in summer 2023 with a brand new topic, exploring how people and communities can work together to make our streets and public spaces more welcoming and safe for women and girls.
We delved into people's experiences and gathered ideas and solutions for improvement from partners so that everyone across Greater Manchester and beyond can be inspired to take the steps to create a whole system-approach to addressing violence against women and girls in their local area. The first episode launched on Thursday 11 May.
Series 4 - A journey of discovery through Right to the Streets
The GM Moving podcast returned for series 4 in late 2023 as we embarked on a joyful journey of discovery looking at how the Right to the Streets movement has grown and developed, the difference it's making, and all that we have learned along the way.
Hear from lots of people and partners as they shift the dial from fear to freedom as we trailblaze a different approach to ending street harassment and gender-based violence in public spaces. The first episode launched on 25 November 2023.