Eve Holt
@evefrancisholt.bsky.social
#Manchester girl on #SocialJustice mission. Head of Policy & Implementation for GMCA & Mayor of GM. 🐝 Public policy, service & participation. System convening, navigation & change. Previously #GMMoving and Public Law Solicitor.
Reposted by Eve Holt
Andy Burnham @mayorofgm.bsky.social writes in his essay: “The country is crying out for change. But not just any change. People don’t want more promises from on high... It’s about shifting power – real power – out of Westminster, and into the hands of people who know their communities best."
September 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Andy Burnham @mayorofgm.bsky.social writes in his essay: “The country is crying out for change. But not just any change. People don’t want more promises from on high... It’s about shifting power – real power – out of Westminster, and into the hands of people who know their communities best."
‘What people most want are places they can connect with others.’
And basics like public toilets, benches, more spaces for young people.
This is what we hear all the time. People are longing for welcoming spaces & places for human connection, health and hope.
This is at the heart of #GMLiveWell
And basics like public toilets, benches, more spaces for young people.
This is what we hear all the time. People are longing for welcoming spaces & places for human connection, health and hope.
This is at the heart of #GMLiveWell
We spoke to 42 people in 19 areas getting £20m - this is how they'd spend it
The government's new initiative gives £20m over 10 years to 19 areas in Greater Manchester - and voters decide how to spend it
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
‘What people most want are places they can connect with others.’
And basics like public toilets, benches, more spaces for young people.
This is what we hear all the time. People are longing for welcoming spaces & places for human connection, health and hope.
This is at the heart of #GMLiveWell
And basics like public toilets, benches, more spaces for young people.
This is what we hear all the time. People are longing for welcoming spaces & places for human connection, health and hope.
This is at the heart of #GMLiveWell
A few highlights from last week:
💃🏻Rambertdance at The Lowry
🏡Speaking @NEA #warmhomes event
💥#PeoplesPowerhouse discussion
🎨 Creativehealth #LiveWell Roundtable
👩💼#UrbanistasNW Perimenopause event
🧐Inclusive research network
🚶🏾♀️#GMMoving Board meeting
🏆Awards event at British Muslim Heritage Centre
💃🏻Rambertdance at The Lowry
🏡Speaking @NEA #warmhomes event
💥#PeoplesPowerhouse discussion
🎨 Creativehealth #LiveWell Roundtable
👩💼#UrbanistasNW Perimenopause event
🧐Inclusive research network
🚶🏾♀️#GMMoving Board meeting
🏆Awards event at British Muslim Heritage Centre
September 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A few highlights from last week:
💃🏻Rambertdance at The Lowry
🏡Speaking @NEA #warmhomes event
💥#PeoplesPowerhouse discussion
🎨 Creativehealth #LiveWell Roundtable
👩💼#UrbanistasNW Perimenopause event
🧐Inclusive research network
🚶🏾♀️#GMMoving Board meeting
🏆Awards event at British Muslim Heritage Centre
💃🏻Rambertdance at The Lowry
🏡Speaking @NEA #warmhomes event
💥#PeoplesPowerhouse discussion
🎨 Creativehealth #LiveWell Roundtable
👩💼#UrbanistasNW Perimenopause event
🧐Inclusive research network
🚶🏾♀️#GMMoving Board meeting
🏆Awards event at British Muslim Heritage Centre
Some highlights this week:
💙Talking about GM’s prevention-first approach @TheKingsFund Conf
🚴♀️Cycling around London
🎂20th anniversary @transportwm
❤️@VCFSELeadersGM insights & action
💷Planning for GM Guaranteed Living Income & UBI pilots.
📕@sarasiobhan book launch & panel
🌱GM #CyanLines launched
💙Talking about GM’s prevention-first approach @TheKingsFund Conf
🚴♀️Cycling around London
🎂20th anniversary @transportwm
❤️@VCFSELeadersGM insights & action
💷Planning for GM Guaranteed Living Income & UBI pilots.
📕@sarasiobhan book launch & panel
🌱GM #CyanLines launched
September 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Some highlights this week:
💙Talking about GM’s prevention-first approach @TheKingsFund Conf
🚴♀️Cycling around London
🎂20th anniversary @transportwm
❤️@VCFSELeadersGM insights & action
💷Planning for GM Guaranteed Living Income & UBI pilots.
📕@sarasiobhan book launch & panel
🌱GM #CyanLines launched
💙Talking about GM’s prevention-first approach @TheKingsFund Conf
🚴♀️Cycling around London
🎂20th anniversary @transportwm
❤️@VCFSELeadersGM insights & action
💷Planning for GM Guaranteed Living Income & UBI pilots.
📕@sarasiobhan book launch & panel
🌱GM #CyanLines launched
Reposted by Eve Holt
For the next four weeks, we are lifting the 9.30am rule on older and disabled people’s bus passes.
We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent.
Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻
We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent.
Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻
August 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For the next four weeks, we are lifting the 9.30am rule on older and disabled people’s bus passes.
We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent.
Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻
We hope it will help people over the summer as well as provide valuable data on whether we have the capacity and finances to make it permanent.
Please help spread the word! 🙏🏻
Reposted by Eve Holt
The Transport Committee has a call for evidence on 'joined-up journeys: achieving and measuring transport integration'.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
Joined-up journeys: achieving and measuring transport integration - Committees - UK Parliament
The Transport Committee is looking at how Government can mould transport services, networks and options around the journeys that people need and want to make in their daily lives. We want to find out ...
committees.parliament.uk
July 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The Transport Committee has a call for evidence on 'joined-up journeys: achieving and measuring transport integration'.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
Our new GM Strategy is about people and enabling good lives for all.
The 1st pledge is to ‘put equality goals at the heart of our plans, embedding inclusive practices across all public services.’
This week’s Tackling Inequality Board explored how we make that a reality.
youtu.be/m3Iu3smH2Io
The 1st pledge is to ‘put equality goals at the heart of our plans, embedding inclusive practices across all public services.’
This week’s Tackling Inequality Board explored how we make that a reality.
youtu.be/m3Iu3smH2Io
Voices of Greater Manchester
YouTube video by Greater Manchester Combined Authority
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Our new GM Strategy is about people and enabling good lives for all.
The 1st pledge is to ‘put equality goals at the heart of our plans, embedding inclusive practices across all public services.’
This week’s Tackling Inequality Board explored how we make that a reality.
youtu.be/m3Iu3smH2Io
The 1st pledge is to ‘put equality goals at the heart of our plans, embedding inclusive practices across all public services.’
This week’s Tackling Inequality Board explored how we make that a reality.
youtu.be/m3Iu3smH2Io
You can catch up on my conversation this week with Andy Jackson, Ben Glover and Saima Ashraf on what it truly means to put power in the hands of people and places, and how policy must shift to support this.
Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT_1...
#CommunityPower #DoWith
Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT_1...
#CommunityPower #DoWith
July 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
You can catch up on my conversation this week with Andy Jackson, Ben Glover and Saima Ashraf on what it truly means to put power in the hands of people and places, and how policy must shift to support this.
Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT_1...
#CommunityPower #DoWith
Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT_1...
#CommunityPower #DoWith
No Place Like Home.🏡
A safe, decent, healthy home is essential for people to be able to get on in life. That’s why we’ve committed to a #HousingFirst approach in #GreaterManchester.
As @andyburnham.bsky.social says in the foreword, when you set people up to succeed - they largely do.
A safe, decent, healthy home is essential for people to be able to get on in life. That’s why we’ve committed to a #HousingFirst approach in #GreaterManchester.
As @andyburnham.bsky.social says in the foreword, when you set people up to succeed - they largely do.
🚨NEW: Rough sleeping has doubled since Covid. But there is a solution.
Together with @metromayorsteve.bsky.social and @andyburnham.bsky.social, we are calling for Housing First to be rolled out nationwide following the success of regional pilots🤝
Our new report, No Place Like Home, explains why👇
Together with @metromayorsteve.bsky.social and @andyburnham.bsky.social, we are calling for Housing First to be rolled out nationwide following the success of regional pilots🤝
Our new report, No Place Like Home, explains why👇
July 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
No Place Like Home.🏡
A safe, decent, healthy home is essential for people to be able to get on in life. That’s why we’ve committed to a #HousingFirst approach in #GreaterManchester.
As @andyburnham.bsky.social says in the foreword, when you set people up to succeed - they largely do.
A safe, decent, healthy home is essential for people to be able to get on in life. That’s why we’ve committed to a #HousingFirst approach in #GreaterManchester.
As @andyburnham.bsky.social says in the foreword, when you set people up to succeed - they largely do.
Finally made it to Stockroom, #Stockport this week. What a wonderful, warm welcoming centre - for anybody & everybody - as it says on the door.
A perfect space for this week’s VCFSE Forum exploring inclusive local economies & support to enable good lives for all #GMLiveWell. ♥️
A perfect space for this week’s VCFSE Forum exploring inclusive local economies & support to enable good lives for all #GMLiveWell. ♥️
July 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Finally made it to Stockroom, #Stockport this week. What a wonderful, warm welcoming centre - for anybody & everybody - as it says on the door.
A perfect space for this week’s VCFSE Forum exploring inclusive local economies & support to enable good lives for all #GMLiveWell. ♥️
A perfect space for this week’s VCFSE Forum exploring inclusive local economies & support to enable good lives for all #GMLiveWell. ♥️
Looking forward to this conversation next week.
How can we move from a rhetoric of localism to active community power?
Join us and @localis.bsky.social for a webinar exploring the enablers and barriers to #CommunityPower in the UK.
🗓️ 22 July
👉 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dda32e...
@evefrancisholt.bsky.social #DoWith
Join us and @localis.bsky.social for a webinar exploring the enablers and barriers to #CommunityPower in the UK.
🗓️ 22 July
👉 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dda32e...
@evefrancisholt.bsky.social #DoWith
July 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Looking forward to this conversation next week.
Wow that was intense but we made it through! Well done #Lionesses
THE REIGNING EURO CHAMPS CONTINUE DEFENDING THEIR TITLE! 🏴
In dramatic fashion, the Lionesses already made history, the first EVER comeback from 2 goals down in the tournament's knockout stages, and ended up beating Sweden in a penalty shootout. Onto the semifinals they go 🦁
In dramatic fashion, the Lionesses already made history, the first EVER comeback from 2 goals down in the tournament's knockout stages, and ended up beating Sweden in a penalty shootout. Onto the semifinals they go 🦁
July 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wow that was intense but we made it through! Well done #Lionesses
Well of course!! 😉✨
Has been a pleasure to share our learnings in #GreaterManchester to help shape the new national Civil Society Covenant - reshaping how government works with communities to tackle Britain’s biggest challenges.
Has been a pleasure to share our learnings in #GreaterManchester to help shape the new national Civil Society Covenant - reshaping how government works with communities to tackle Britain’s biggest challenges.
Super to see the GM VCFSE Accord highlighted as a case study too! cc @evefrancisholt.bsky.social @hayleylever.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Well of course!! 😉✨
Has been a pleasure to share our learnings in #GreaterManchester to help shape the new national Civil Society Covenant - reshaping how government works with communities to tackle Britain’s biggest challenges.
Has been a pleasure to share our learnings in #GreaterManchester to help shape the new national Civil Society Covenant - reshaping how government works with communities to tackle Britain’s biggest challenges.
Reposted by Eve Holt
"This is about rebalancing power and responsibility. Not the top-down approach of the state working alone. Not the transactional approach of markets left to their own devices. But a new way forward – where government and civil society work side by side to deliver real change"
PM set to reshape how Government works with communities to tackle Britain’s biggest challenges
The Prime Minister will launch the Civil Society Covenant – a new way of working that puts people at the heart of government.
www.gov.uk
July 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"This is about rebalancing power and responsibility. Not the top-down approach of the state working alone. Not the transactional approach of markets left to their own devices. But a new way forward – where government and civil society work side by side to deliver real change"
Reposted by Eve Holt
How can we move from a rhetoric of localism to active community power?
Join us and @localis.bsky.social for a webinar exploring the enablers and barriers to #CommunityPower in the UK.
🗓️ 22 July
👉 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dda32e...
@evefrancisholt.bsky.social #DoWith
Join us and @localis.bsky.social for a webinar exploring the enablers and barriers to #CommunityPower in the UK.
🗓️ 22 July
👉 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dda32e...
@evefrancisholt.bsky.social #DoWith
July 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
How can we move from a rhetoric of localism to active community power?
Join us and @localis.bsky.social for a webinar exploring the enablers and barriers to #CommunityPower in the UK.
🗓️ 22 July
👉 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dda32e...
@evefrancisholt.bsky.social #DoWith
Join us and @localis.bsky.social for a webinar exploring the enablers and barriers to #CommunityPower in the UK.
🗓️ 22 July
👉 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dda32e...
@evefrancisholt.bsky.social #DoWith
📢 Power to the People!
I haven’t read in full yet but pleased to see that the Devolution Bill will:
🏛️Shift power out of Whitehall
👭Empower local & regional leaders
🏠Create a Community Right to Buy
🗺️Give communities say on planning
❤️Put local assets in local hands
🗳️Increase voting power
I haven’t read in full yet but pleased to see that the Devolution Bill will:
🏛️Shift power out of Whitehall
👭Empower local & regional leaders
🏠Create a Community Right to Buy
🗺️Give communities say on planning
❤️Put local assets in local hands
🗳️Increase voting power
Landmark Devolution Bill brings new dawn of regional power
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill delivers on manifesto commitment to de-centralise power and ignite regional growth with powers for mayors.
www.gov.uk
July 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
📢 Power to the People!
I haven’t read in full yet but pleased to see that the Devolution Bill will:
🏛️Shift power out of Whitehall
👭Empower local & regional leaders
🏠Create a Community Right to Buy
🗺️Give communities say on planning
❤️Put local assets in local hands
🗳️Increase voting power
I haven’t read in full yet but pleased to see that the Devolution Bill will:
🏛️Shift power out of Whitehall
👭Empower local & regional leaders
🏠Create a Community Right to Buy
🗺️Give communities say on planning
❤️Put local assets in local hands
🗳️Increase voting power
Reposted by Eve Holt
"For 100 years swimming was banned in the river because of the levels of water pollution that could make people ill...Ahead of last summer's Olympics more than €1.4bn (£1.2bn; $1.6bn) was invested into cleaning up the Seine."
River Seine: Waters reopens to swimmers after century-long ban
For the first time in more than 100 years people will be able to swim legally in three sections of the river.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"For 100 years swimming was banned in the river because of the levels of water pollution that could make people ill...Ahead of last summer's Olympics more than €1.4bn (£1.2bn; $1.6bn) was invested into cleaning up the Seine."
Another action-packed week in #GreaterManchester
🚴♀️Rode to school with 200+ kids ♿️co-hosted MPs briefing 🌱met Welsh Future Generations team 🗣️spoke at Women’s Health & Community Wealth Summits 🎶enjoyed Sounds of the City & more—active travel, Coops, skills, play, youth voice & Great North.
I ❤️ #TeamGM
🚴♀️Rode to school with 200+ kids ♿️co-hosted MPs briefing 🌱met Welsh Future Generations team 🗣️spoke at Women’s Health & Community Wealth Summits 🎶enjoyed Sounds of the City & more—active travel, Coops, skills, play, youth voice & Great North.
I ❤️ #TeamGM
July 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Another action-packed week in #GreaterManchester
🚴♀️Rode to school with 200+ kids ♿️co-hosted MPs briefing 🌱met Welsh Future Generations team 🗣️spoke at Women’s Health & Community Wealth Summits 🎶enjoyed Sounds of the City & more—active travel, Coops, skills, play, youth voice & Great North.
I ❤️ #TeamGM
🚴♀️Rode to school with 200+ kids ♿️co-hosted MPs briefing 🌱met Welsh Future Generations team 🗣️spoke at Women’s Health & Community Wealth Summits 🎶enjoyed Sounds of the City & more—active travel, Coops, skills, play, youth voice & Great North.
I ❤️ #TeamGM
Reposted by Eve Holt
Excellent analysis from @rosiebeacon.bsky.social on the 10yr Plan … the really genuinely radical announcement & it’s up & running is Greater Manchester as a Prevention demonstrator .. this is proper neighbourhood health .. vision & leadership from @mayorofgm.bsky.social @evefrancisholt.bsky.social 👏
We read it so you don't have to!
Check out our snap analysis on the 10 Year Plan - highly ambitious but minimal on delivery. But nevertheless some interesting ideas in there.
Read below 👇🔗
re-state.co.uk/react/react-...
Check out our snap analysis on the 10 Year Plan - highly ambitious but minimal on delivery. But nevertheless some interesting ideas in there.
Read below 👇🔗
re-state.co.uk/react/react-...
Re:Act: 10 Year Health Plan - Re:State
re-state.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Excellent analysis from @rosiebeacon.bsky.social on the 10yr Plan … the really genuinely radical announcement & it’s up & running is Greater Manchester as a Prevention demonstrator .. this is proper neighbourhood health .. vision & leadership from @mayorofgm.bsky.social @evefrancisholt.bsky.social 👏
Thank you to the wonderful folk at CLES for convening a brilliant array of changemakers & conversations for today’s #CommunityWealthBuilding Summit 2025.
All united by a vision of fairer, more democratic local economies.
#CWBSummit2025 #LocalEconomies #InclusiveEconomy
All united by a vision of fairer, more democratic local economies.
#CWBSummit2025 #LocalEconomies #InclusiveEconomy
July 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thank you to the wonderful folk at CLES for convening a brilliant array of changemakers & conversations for today’s #CommunityWealthBuilding Summit 2025.
All united by a vision of fairer, more democratic local economies.
#CWBSummit2025 #LocalEconomies #InclusiveEconomy
All united by a vision of fairer, more democratic local economies.
#CWBSummit2025 #LocalEconomies #InclusiveEconomy
Spent this morning talking about Women's Health in #GreaterManchester & why we have to address inequalities in wealth & power.
Good to share the work we are doing in GM to apply a gendered lens, close inequality gaps, track the data & lay building blocks for good lives for all.
Good to share the work we are doing in GM to apply a gendered lens, close inequality gaps, track the data & lay building blocks for good lives for all.
July 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Spent this morning talking about Women's Health in #GreaterManchester & why we have to address inequalities in wealth & power.
Good to share the work we are doing in GM to apply a gendered lens, close inequality gaps, track the data & lay building blocks for good lives for all.
Good to share the work we are doing in GM to apply a gendered lens, close inequality gaps, track the data & lay building blocks for good lives for all.
Reposted by Eve Holt
Great fun at #WomensHealthGM today with @janemcdermott.bsky.social and @evefrancisholt.bsky.social discussing the GMCA's plans for women's health and @healthequitynorth.bsky.social Woman of the North report.
Our Head of Public Affairs @alexisdarby.bsky.social
spoke on a @manchester.ac.uk panel today about Women's Health in Greater Manchester, talking about our #WomanOfTheNorth report findings.
#WomensHealthGM
spoke on a @manchester.ac.uk panel today about Women's Health in Greater Manchester, talking about our #WomanOfTheNorth report findings.
#WomensHealthGM
July 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Great fun at #WomensHealthGM today with @janemcdermott.bsky.social and @evefrancisholt.bsky.social discussing the GMCA's plans for women's health and @healthequitynorth.bsky.social Woman of the North report.
Reposted by Eve Holt
The truth about UK nuclear veterans has been 'covered up', Andy Burnham tells #Newsnight
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Truth about UK nuclear veterans 'covered up', says Andy Burnham
The mayor of Greater Manchester calls on the government to act while the remaining survivors of the UK's 1950s nuclear tests are still alive.
www.bbc.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The truth about UK nuclear veterans has been 'covered up', Andy Burnham tells #Newsnight
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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