Live Well: Ensuring great everyday support across Greater Manchester

Live Well is a partnership across Greater Manchester’s statutory and voluntary sector, and in 2023, with generous support from The National Lottery Community Fund, the Live Well programme was launched, enabling five accelerator sites to lead work to tackle persistent barriers to Live Well.

After co-designing the design of the programme with VCFSE, statutory partners and communities in 2021, we have been supporting Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Greater Manchester Integrate Care and the five cross-sector accelerator sites, to surface and connect insights from the work to support the strategic expansion of Live Well. 

Over the past year, Live Well’s strategic remit has expanded, becoming Greater Manchester’s catalyst for delivering long held prevention and reform ambitions. 

Achieving Greater Manchester’s Live Well ambition will focus on four key components:

1. Live Well Centres, Spaces and Offers, connecting brilliant everyday support
    
2. Vibrant and resilient VCFSE organisations and communities, resourced to respond at scale
    
3. An optimum neighbourhood model working alongside people and communities
    
4. A culture of prevention

Our approach

Our work in this programme is underpinned and guided by the Live Well learning framework, which has built the foundation for GM’s Live Well ambition and strategy. The framework points towards the type of enabling system environments needed to grow community action, power and wealth to tackle health, social and economic inequalities.

More information

As part of the growing Live Well movement, we also work closely with system and sector leaders to steer the strategic direction of GM Live Well and define a Live Well approach in their policy areas:

Live Well Dementia

Greater Manchester Housing Providers’ Contribution to Live Well