The Partners we select will be recruited based on the value they can bring to GM Active and our member organisations as well as ensuring they understand the commercial value of alignment with GM Active and appreciate the opportunity to support our vision and mission.
A 12-month Strategic Business Partner package costs £2,500, excluding VAT.
To find out more and discover how you can partner with us and how it could benefit your business or organisation – carry on reading below, or download our PDF.
GM Active is a Community Interest Company limited by guarantee and a collaboration of 12 leisure and community organisations from across Greater Manchester.
We are all part of the same movement, to get more people physically active and improve the health & wellbeing of our communities, as part of the City-Region’s GM Moving in Action strategy.
Together the members manage the majority of the publicly owned leisure and physical activity assets and services on behalf of the 10 local authorities across Greater Manchester.
We see our partnerships as mutually beneficial relationships. By working with us to help people across Greater Manchester live healthy, happy, and longer lives your business or organisation will support us to deliver a lasting positive social impact, while we will help you to unlock benefits for your business or organisation.
We can assure you that no other partner will conflict in your business products or services provision. We will select our partnerships with care and offer category exclusivity, which means you will not share a platform with a company in the same sector. This approach will enable our partners to collaborate not only with us; but with each other.
Our vision is to help people across Greater Manchester live healthy, happy, and longer lives.
Now we are offering the opportunity for key organisations and businesses across the UK leisure, wellness and physical activity sector to share in our vision by becoming a GM Active Strategic Business Partner.
You will be partnering with a collective that is responsible for 99 leisure and sports facilities across Greater Manchester with a combined reach of over 20 million visits every year.
We deliver over 10,000 activity session a week, support over 15,000 people with long-term conditions into an active lifestyle each year, have over 225,000 people committed to regular exercise through our health and fitness memberships, and we support over 60,000 people to learn how to swim every year.
We provide safe places for children and young people to have fun and be active, support older adults and people with long-term conditions through social prescribing and physical activity interventions and improve community cohesion by engaging people of all ages and abilities in healthy and meaningful activities every day.
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Our purposeHelping people across Greater Manchester live healthy, happy, and longer lives. |
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Our visionA network of innovative, resilient and high performing Greater Manchester leisure and community organisations that deliver transformational health and wellbeing outcomes through collaboration across our local communities. |
We are looking to work with partners who can add value to GM Active and our member organisations, as well as ensuring they are committed to helping us achieve our vision.
A 12-month Strategic Business Partner package would cost £2,500, excluding VAT.
Our partnerships will start in January 2022, and we’d like interested organisations to share with us how they can add value to GM Active and our member organisations by the 10th December 2021.]
To find out more about this programme and apply to become a Strategic Business Partner, please contact.
Chris Turner, Head of Business Operations & Company Secretary at chris.turner@gmactive.co.uk
The Partners we select will be recruited based on the value they can bring to GM Active and our member organisations as well as ensuring they understand the commercial value of alignment with GM Active and appreciate the opportunity to support our vision and mission.
A 12-month Strategic Business Partner package costs £2,500, excluding VAT.
To find out more and discover how you can partner with us and how it could benefit your business or organisation – carry on reading below, or download our PDF.
The leadership programme is supported by GreaterSport and made possible with investment from the National Lottery, through the Local Pilot in Greater Manchester with Sport England. The Transformational Leadership programme has been designed and delivered in partnership with the training provider Future Fit Training and we would like to thank them for their continued support.
Andy King, Chair of GM Active, which is now a community interest company (CIC), said: “It is vital that staff across the community leisure sector understand much more about the wider community we serve and how we can better play our part in improving health and wellbeing services for everyone across Greater Manchester.
“We need transformational leaders to help us achieve a shift in our workforce’s mindset. It is clear that leaders already exist across GM Active – we don’t need to build this group but we want to enable them to grow, do more and be better connect to the eco-system that they are part of.
“Our leadership programme will bolster the knowledge and understanding of our staff to meet the demands of their roles and the changing needs of our communities. They will have the skills and knowledge to ensure their facilities and services are part of the whole system approach and contributing to the sector’s pivot from leisure to wellness.”
It covers the principles of leadership, creating culture, understanding today’s leisure and wellness sector including key agendas, services and organisations; whole system thinking, health inequalities, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and leading for renewal.
A distinctive feature of our organisation is our promotion of co-working between physical activity and clinical healthcare providers. Our new training programmes reflect this and act as a ‘skills passport’ for continuous professional development in the leisure industry.
Elaine Briggs, Director of Education at Future Fit Training, said: “Following many months of collaboration with some of the sector’s most respected leaders, we are thrilled to launch the Transformational Leadership programme to the GM Active workforce. This course is the first of its kind, created in partnership with and delivered by experts in their field, the training aims to equip individuals with the skills to reimagine the sector landscape, connect with their communities and wider organisations and deliver on both their local outcomes and those of the Sport England ‘Uniting the Movement’ strategy.
“We believe this training is vital to ensure that we are creating leaders of the future who understand how they can influence change in their own communities and create a joined-up approach to health and wellness, while motivating their teams through dynamic and passionate leadership.”
The Partners we select will be recruited based on the value they can bring to GM Active and our member organisations as well as ensuring they understand the commercial value of alignment with GM Active and appreciate the opportunity to support our vision and mission.
A 12-month Strategic Business Partner package costs £2,500, excluding VAT.
To find out more and discover how you can partner with us and how it could benefit your business or organisation – carry on reading below, or download our PDF.
In Greater Manchester, Prehab4Cancer fitness sessions will be streamed live on Zoom from 8am to 9pm. Links to join will be posted on the GM Active social media channels at 7am on Thursday.
Kirsty Rowlinson-Groves, GM Active’s Programme Manager for Prehab4Cancer, said: “Our team of exercise specialists are inviting everyone to take part in any session they choose. These are really accessible for all ages and abilities. We are raising awareness of how activity at any level boosts physical and mental health, including for some people with cancer who are preparing for or recovering from surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
Two current Prehab4Cancer patients are taking part in Thursday’s activities. Sharon Butler, from Trafford, is recovering from colorectal cancer. She joined the referral programme before the Covid lockdown, attending sessions in a local gym and then online. The other is Miriam Gilland, from Tameside, who is awaiting surgery for colorectal cancer.
Prehab4Cancer exercise specialists include Kirsty, who usually works with patients in leisure centres in Manchester; Jack Murphy who covers Trafford and Salford; Sarah Jayne Hurst, who covers Oldham and Rochdale; Rob Mentha in Wigan and Stockport, Karly Baguley in Bolton and Bury, and Ash Rowlands, who works in Tameside and north Manchester.
Gemma Hillier-Moses, the founder of the MOVE Charity and 5K Your Way initiative, also hopes to take part.
Around 16,000 people in Greater Manchester are diagnosed with cancer every year. People here have a greater chance of getting cancer than the national average and are typically less prepared and resilient, physically, and mentally, for cancer treatment than patients in other regions.
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The Partners we select will be recruited based on the value they can bring to GM Active and our member organisations as well as ensuring they understand the commercial value of alignment with GM Active and appreciate the opportunity to support our vision and mission.
A 12-month Strategic Business Partner package costs £2,500, excluding VAT.
To find out more and discover how you can partner with us and how it could benefit your business or organisation – carry on reading below, or download our PDF.
The Partners we select will be recruited based on the value they can bring to GM Active and our member organisations as well as ensuring they understand the commercial value of alignment with GM Active and appreciate the opportunity to support our vision and mission.
A 12-month Strategic Business Partner package costs £2,500, excluding VAT.
To find out more and discover how you can partner with us and how it could benefit your business or organisation – carry on reading below, or download our PDF.
