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
In the new series, we speak 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'll be hearing the experiences and gathering ideas and solutions for improvement from council leaders, charities, community groups and others as they shift the dial from fear to freedom.
We want to trailblaze a different approach to street harassment and gender-based violence in public spaces and inspire you, across Greater Manchester and beyond, to take the steps to create a whole system-approach to addressing violence against women and girls in your local area.
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.
Episode transcript available to download.
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.
Episode transcript available to download.
Series 4 Episode 5: Using podcasts to tell the story
This Right To The Streets edition of the GM Moving podcast has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role in growing the Safer Streets movement, facilitating authentic conversations that not only helped to shape the project but ensured that these experiences, stories and ideas were heard by people much wider than the communities we worked in.
This is the power of podcasts.
In this episode, we're telling you why we decided to do a podcast for the project, what this looked like in practice, our process, the huge added value, learning, challenges and of course - what’s next.
Episode transcript available to download.
Series 4 Episode 3: Enabling more people to walk, wheel and cycle
In this episode of the Right to the Streets series of the GM Moving podcast, we explore different locally designed and locally led walking, wheeling and cycling activations, and how these support people to connect with one another and the places around them.
Episode transcript available to download.
Series 4 Episode 1: Why does participatory data collection matter?
In our opening episode of series four, Eve explores all things data, to include what counts as data, who gets to decide how it can be collected, and how it can be used to inform local community action.
She speaks to colleagues at Open Data Manchester (ODM for short), one of the key delivery partners who steered and expertly managed the data-led approach to the initiation of the Right to the Streets movement.
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.
Episode transcript available to download.
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.
Episode transcript available to download.
Series 4 Episode 4: How can public campaigns shift cultural norms?
How can public campaigns disrupt the culture of street harassment and shift cultural norms?
In this episode, Eve is joined by DIVA Creative - the marketing agency who worked with GM Moving to develop the public 'No Place For It' campaign - to discuss catalysing behaviour change to make our streets, parks, and public spaces safer, more welcoming and more joyful for everyone, especially women and girls and gender diverse communities.
Episode transcript available to download.
Series 4 Episode 2: The power of bystander intervention
What is an active bystander? How do they disrupt harassment against women and girls? And how do we become one?
In the second episode of series four of The GM Moving Podcast, host Eve Holt is joined by Julie Tweedale from Freedom Personal Safety to talk about how they are tackling sexual harassment in Greater Manchester through active bystander training, and Nicole Zanchetti and Dave Green from Transport for Greater Manchester to hear how the training has informed them.
Episode transcript available to download.
Series 4 trailer
To mark White Ribbon Day 2023, and continued efforts to end violence against women and girls, we're launching our second podcast series focusing on Right to the Streets.
It's time to share the journey of discovery we've been on in Trafford and show you how the Right to the Streets movement has grown, the difference it's making and what we've learned along the way. We hope you enjoy it.
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.