Our Work





GM Active was formed to harness the power of collaboration. Our work with our member organisations, together with other public bodies and agencies, covers a broad spectrum of health and wellbeing activity. 



Pivot to Active Wellbeing

This ambitious project involving all local authority leisure operators across Greater Manchester is aiming to change how local leisure centres, swimming pools, fitness facilities and services are perceived and used, putting a greater emphasis on health and wellbeing instead of being purely focused on fitness.

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Prehab4Cancer

Prehab4Cancer is the first UK integrated care service delivered prehabilitation and recovery programme for cancer patients, via a partnership between the GM Cancer alliance and GM Active. 

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Skills and Training Academy

Our Skills and Training Academy has been developed to give our collective workforce the skills to support and meet the needs of their customers, enabling a transformation in the culture, knowledge and behaviours of staff to address the challenges of inactivity in the region.

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Transformational Leadership Programme

Our Transformational Leadership programme has been created to empower staff at our member organisations to play a greater role in developing new wellness services and innovative, cross-sectoral responses to current and emerging health needs in the populations we serve.

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Workplace Health and Wellbeing

We work with more than 300 employers across Greater Manchester, providing workplace-based health and wellbeing support which is accessible to every employer in the region…

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Amazing Places

Our 2 key assets are our staff and the 99 sports, leisure and wellness facilities we run across Greater Manchester. Both Trafford and Salford have benefitted from local authority facility investment in the past few years…

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Grassroots sport to sporting excellence

We manage a mixture of 99 indoor and outdoor, sports, leisure and wellness facilities across Greater Manchester. These facilities provide the region with…

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Community Development and Inclusion

We work at the heart of communities across Greater Manchester and promote inclusion in everything we do. A third of our facilities are in the top 10% most deprived communities in the UK…

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Physical Activity as a Miracle Drug

GM Active has established programmes across the region that encourage people to get physically active, supporting them to be in control of their own health and wellbeing.

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Latest News

Ideas and projects are continuously evolving and progressing at GM Active. View our latest news stories below to find out how we are moving as one and contributing towards building the healthy, happy and prosperous Greater Manchester we all aspire to.




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Case Study: Public Health Outcomes Framework at Salford Community Leisure

Case Study | 05/09/2024

The aim of the Public Health Outcomes Framework is to maximise the contribution that Salford Community Leisure (SCL) makes towards the delivery of public health outcomes in Salford against the priorities of the Locality Plan.


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Case Study: Transitioning away from traditional leisure in Manchester

Case Study | 05/09/2024

Denmark Road Leisure Centre (often just referred to as Denmark Road) in Manchester – serving Ardwick, Hulme, Moss Side and Rusholme – presented an opportunity to transition tradition.


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Case Study: Bury Wellness Strategy 

Case Study | 05/09/2024

Health inequalities in Bury are stark. Men’s life expectancy can vary by 15 years depending on where they live, while for women it’s 11 years. Bury needed something radical. Transformation was the answer. The Wellness Strategy is Bury’s approach to improving health outcomes and tackling health inequalities in the borough.


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Interested in working with us?

We are actively seeking new partners, opportunities for collaboration and innovative ways of working.  We can’t do this alone. If our plans, purpose and intent chime with you, please do connect with us and be part of our transformational movement.