Join us for our next full network event 1-4pm Tuesday 7th February at the People’s History Museum In Dec 2022, the GMJokers Legislative Theatre project for GM Homelessness Prevention Strategy won the International Observatory for Particpatory Democracy’s Award for Best Practice in Citizen Participation. This is a really exciting achievement as it was the first time the award has ever been won by a project from the UK. Working alongside GMCA and the GMHAN, the GMJokers have b

On Friday we were thrilled to announce that Legislative theatre for the Greater Manchester Homelessness Prevention Strategy won the award for Best Practice in Citizen Participation at the Institute of Participatory Democracy. Greater Manchester Legislative Theatre is a community-led process that is the result of a collaborative effort by the GM Jokers, GMHAN and funded and co-designed by the GMCA’s homelessness team. The process was designed and led by a cohort of facilitator

We are excited to announce that the Greater Manchester Homelessness Prevention strategy Legislative Theatre project is a finalist for the IOPD Best Practice in Citizen Participation Award! A big part of the GMHAN’s recent work has been ensuring that members of the network have been able to feed into Greater Manchester’s Homelessness Prevention Strategy 2021-2026. One of the ways we have done this is through Legislative Theatre, which is a creative and participatory policy-mak

GMHAN Full Network Event – Reflection from Robbie Cowbury from Action Together (Action Together support the community and voluntary sector in Rochdale, Oldham and Tameside) A Homelessness Prevention Strategy to cover all of Greater Manchester has been an ambition of the Homelessness Action Network for long before the pandemic. It’s a fundamental part of why we exist: to take ‘action’ on homelessness is not merely to limit the results of a broken system which leaves people ho

On Wednesday 9th December, we hosted #GMLegislativeTheatre event on Funding & Commissioning. We explored some structural barriers and ideas when it comes to funding. Thank you for all your comments and engagement on social media. You can check them out #GMlegislativetheatre, and also see some of the reflection from our team member Matthew Kidd who ask ‘How do we invest more meaningful relationships with our communities rather than just wheeling them in and out at convenient

With one week to go till the second event in the GM Legislative Theatre / Homelessness Prevention Strategy process, the facilitation team is working hard and staying flexible, as we’ve all had to do throughout 2020. In the beginning of November, we set out to create a second play with a new cast of GM residents impacted by homelessness and housing insecurity as well as front-line staff: this play is meant to focus on the funding and commissioning process for homeless services

On Wednesday 30th September, 112 people from frontline support staff, GMCA officers and elected officials, advocates and neighbours to people with experience of homelessness attended and participated in the first Greater Manchester Legislative Theatre on Multiple Disadvantage. It was an interactive on-line event where community members worked together with policymakers to generate, debate and negotiate innovative policy around the issue and to feedback a co-produced Homelessn