Mike Wild [he/him]
@mikewildmacc.bsky.social
CEO at Macc, supporting Manchester charities, community groups and social enterprises to make more good things happen. (Also TV and music geekery)
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The Future of the St Thomas Centre is Secured.
Following the closure of GMCVO, we can now announce that agreement has been reached for Macc to take over responsibility for the Centre, safeguarding this important resource for our sector.
Read our full statement here: tinyurl.com/469a7efr
Following the closure of GMCVO, we can now announce that agreement has been reached for Macc to take over responsibility for the Centre, safeguarding this important resource for our sector.
Read our full statement here: tinyurl.com/469a7efr
So I have some news....
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If you are involved in any sort of social change at a national, regional or local level, we want to hear from you!
Take the SMK Annual Campaigner and Changemaker Survey NOW! Only FOUR DAYS LEFT!
https://forms.office.com/e/M2L9N2HUyZ
#SMKCampaignerSurvey
Take the SMK Annual Campaigner and Changemaker Survey NOW! Only FOUR DAYS LEFT!
https://forms.office.com/e/M2L9N2HUyZ
#SMKCampaignerSurvey
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you are involved in any sort of social change at a national, regional or local level, we want to hear from you!
Take the SMK Annual Campaigner and Changemaker Survey NOW! Only FOUR DAYS LEFT!
https://forms.office.com/e/M2L9N2HUyZ
#SMKCampaignerSurvey
Take the SMK Annual Campaigner and Changemaker Survey NOW! Only FOUR DAYS LEFT!
https://forms.office.com/e/M2L9N2HUyZ
#SMKCampaignerSurvey
Just for context....
One trillion seconds is equal to more than 31,600 YEARS.
Assuming a 35 hour week, 1trillion a year is an hourly rate of over 549 million.
One trillion seconds is equal to more than 31,600 YEARS.
Assuming a 35 hour week, 1trillion a year is an hourly rate of over 549 million.
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just for context....
One trillion seconds is equal to more than 31,600 YEARS.
Assuming a 35 hour week, 1trillion a year is an hourly rate of over 549 million.
One trillion seconds is equal to more than 31,600 YEARS.
Assuming a 35 hour week, 1trillion a year is an hourly rate of over 549 million.
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📣MDF are looking for a Lived Experience Project Worker to join them and help embed lived experience into their work and other MACC projects.
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
Passionate about centering lived experience to advocate for change?
@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.
Come and join us!
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
@mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
are recruiting for a Lived Experience Project Worker to embed lived experience in the work of the MDF & other collaborative projects supported by Macc.
Come and join us!
tinyurl.com/cusxbkfu
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📣MDF are looking for a Lived Experience Project Worker to join them and help embed lived experience into their work and other MACC projects.
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
This is a brilliant opportunity to be part of the amazing work done by MDF. Applications close on 19 November.
migrantdestitution.co.uk/ruthrose-vis...
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Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester
October 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester
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Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tomorrow night is the Spirit of Manchester Awards 2025. Celebrating amazing community stories from across Manchester. Follow #SpiritOfMcr25 to find out who wins this trophy...
October 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Tomorrow night is the Spirit of Manchester Awards 2025. Celebrating amazing community stories from across Manchester. Follow #SpiritOfMcr25 to find out who wins this trophy...
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roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rapid ⬆️ in Px
Doesn't appear to a rapid increase in the £ available for services to which people are referred
If this were referrals to orthopaedics that wouldn't be ok
not ok in this context
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rapid ⬆️ in Px
Doesn't appear to a rapid increase in the £ available for services to which people are referred
If this were referrals to orthopaedics that wouldn't be ok
not ok in this context
National roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system: a longitudinal observational study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink data
Social prescribing has expanded rapidly in England, far exceeding initial targets
of 900 000 patients by 2023–24, suggesting broad service acceptability. Progress is
being made in reaching specific ta...
www.thelancet.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rapid ⬆️ in Px
Doesn't appear to a rapid increase in the £ available for services to which people are referred
If this were referrals to orthopaedics that wouldn't be ok
not ok in this context
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rapid ⬆️ in Px
Doesn't appear to a rapid increase in the £ available for services to which people are referred
If this were referrals to orthopaedics that wouldn't be ok
not ok in this context
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🍂 Don’t miss out – the deadline for GM Walking Grants is just days away! Your project could help people keep moving and connecting even as the weather turns colder.
✅ Apply today: buff.ly/7ELkUcE
✅ Apply today: buff.ly/7ELkUcE
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🍂 Don’t miss out – the deadline for GM Walking Grants is just days away! Your project could help people keep moving and connecting even as the weather turns colder.
✅ Apply today: buff.ly/7ELkUcE
✅ Apply today: buff.ly/7ELkUcE
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Britain has seen an acute living standards slowdown over the past 20 years.
This has affected incomes across the distribution.
A typical family today would be £20,000 richer if incomes had continued growing at the same rate since 2005, when the Foundation was founded.
⤵️ buff.ly/NuhNFF9
This has affected incomes across the distribution.
A typical family today would be £20,000 richer if incomes had continued growing at the same rate since 2005, when the Foundation was founded.
⤵️ buff.ly/NuhNFF9
September 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Britain has seen an acute living standards slowdown over the past 20 years.
This has affected incomes across the distribution.
A typical family today would be £20,000 richer if incomes had continued growing at the same rate since 2005, when the Foundation was founded.
⤵️ buff.ly/NuhNFF9
This has affected incomes across the distribution.
A typical family today would be £20,000 richer if incomes had continued growing at the same rate since 2005, when the Foundation was founded.
⤵️ buff.ly/NuhNFF9
Our Volunteer Fair on St Anne's Square is well underway. @mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Our Volunteer Fair on St Anne's Square is well underway. @mcrcommcentral.bsky.social
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📢 VCSE orgs in GM: Could £5k help you deliver health & wellbeing projects for unpaid carers from global majority communities? Apply now 👉 buff.ly/FIsELxx
⏰ Deadline: 12PM, 30 Sept. Info session: 18 Sept, 12–1pm.
⏰ Deadline: 12PM, 30 Sept. Info session: 18 Sept, 12–1pm.
Assura Community Fund | Manchester Community Central
buff.ly
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢 VCSE orgs in GM: Could £5k help you deliver health & wellbeing projects for unpaid carers from global majority communities? Apply now 👉 buff.ly/FIsELxx
⏰ Deadline: 12PM, 30 Sept. Info session: 18 Sept, 12–1pm.
⏰ Deadline: 12PM, 30 Sept. Info session: 18 Sept, 12–1pm.
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Pay ratio disclosure alone won’t fix a system designed to reward shareholder returns over social value. Shifting away from shareholder-first business models would allow workplaces where power and profits are shared fairly. 2/2
June 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Pay ratio disclosure alone won’t fix a system designed to reward shareholder returns over social value. Shifting away from shareholder-first business models would allow workplaces where power and profits are shared fairly. 2/2
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Excessive CEO pay is no longer an outlier, it is systemic – a structural feature of our economy.
Mandatory reporting of how much more CEOs are being paid than their workers could challenge extreme wealth accumulation. But... 1/2
Mandatory reporting of how much more CEOs are being paid than their workers could challenge extreme wealth accumulation. But... 1/2
NEW: Our latest research shows that pay gaps at the largest UK companies between CEOs and their employees are as wide now as they were 5 years ago, with a FTSE 100 CEO paid 78 times more than their median employee.
Has the time come for a maximum wage?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Has the time come for a maximum wage?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
CEO pay at UK’s top companies is 52 times that of typical worker, report finds
High Pay Centre thinktank says median pay of FTSE 350 chief executive was £2.4m in 2023-24 financial year
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Excessive CEO pay is no longer an outlier, it is systemic – a structural feature of our economy.
Mandatory reporting of how much more CEOs are being paid than their workers could challenge extreme wealth accumulation. But... 1/2
Mandatory reporting of how much more CEOs are being paid than their workers could challenge extreme wealth accumulation. But... 1/2
This pay ratio gap seems to grow bigger every time I read about it. It should be unacceptable.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
CEO pay at UK’s top companies is 52 times that of typical worker, report finds
High Pay Centre thinktank says median pay of FTSE 350 chief executive was £2.4m in 2023-24 financial year
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This pay ratio gap seems to grow bigger every time I read about it. It should be unacceptable.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Earlier today, we heard the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP
set out details of the government's multi-year spending review.
She said it would 'ensure that renewal is felt in people's everyday lives'. 🔽
1/5
set out details of the government's multi-year spending review.
She said it would 'ensure that renewal is felt in people's everyday lives'. 🔽
1/5
June 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Earlier today, we heard the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP
set out details of the government's multi-year spending review.
She said it would 'ensure that renewal is felt in people's everyday lives'. 🔽
1/5
set out details of the government's multi-year spending review.
She said it would 'ensure that renewal is felt in people's everyday lives'. 🔽
1/5
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Volunteering is not in decline. On the contrary, it is thriving in many grassroots organisations. But it is a different kind of relationship as I explain in this blog 👇
📢 Volunteering is thriving – Just not where you’ve been looking! 📢
It’s #VolunteersWeek - read the blog from our CEO, @Janet Thorne, challenging the perception that #volunteering is in decline: buff.ly/CGgSGQC
👇 Join the conversation 👇
Image: Daniela Yankova – @shadowschaser @fineacts
It’s #VolunteersWeek - read the blog from our CEO, @Janet Thorne, challenging the perception that #volunteering is in decline: buff.ly/CGgSGQC
👇 Join the conversation 👇
Image: Daniela Yankova – @shadowschaser @fineacts
June 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Volunteering is not in decline. On the contrary, it is thriving in many grassroots organisations. But it is a different kind of relationship as I explain in this blog 👇
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We are pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with @meetthemancunian.bsky.social podcast, hosted by Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe, for #SpiritOfMcr25! The podcast focuses on amplifying the voices of those making a difference in the community and spreading positive change in Greater Manchester.
May 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We are pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with @meetthemancunian.bsky.social podcast, hosted by Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe, for #SpiritOfMcr25! The podcast focuses on amplifying the voices of those making a difference in the community and spreading positive change in Greater Manchester.
We're hosting an event to launch the research we've done into the #ClimateAction work being done by local VCSE organisations.... booking details below
The Policy and Influence Team at Macc warmly invite you to join us for the launch of our colleague's impact research on the landscape of climate action within Manchester’s VCSE sector.
Find out more here: manchestercommunitycentral.org/civicrm/even...
Find out more here: manchestercommunitycentral.org/civicrm/even...
June 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We're hosting an event to launch the research we've done into the #ClimateAction work being done by local VCSE organisations.... booking details below
It's now a tradition of #VolunteersWeek that we announce the WINNER of the Spirit of Manchester Young Volunteer of the Year Award 2025.... #SpiritOfMcr25
Congratulations to our #SpiritOfMcr25 Young Volunteer of the Year winner, Hana Salih! ⭐
Well done to Hana for her dedication to her volunteer role at @action4conserv.bsky.social and for winning our Young Volunteer of the Year Award this #VolunteersWeek! 🏆
Well done to Hana for her dedication to her volunteer role at @action4conserv.bsky.social and for winning our Young Volunteer of the Year Award this #VolunteersWeek! 🏆
June 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It's now a tradition of #VolunteersWeek that we announce the WINNER of the Spirit of Manchester Young Volunteer of the Year Award 2025.... #SpiritOfMcr25
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Worth a read & a share.
🔴Bearly Newsworthy: Brexiteers Wanted Sovereignty. This Is What It Looks Like
No-one’s stolen our fish. No laws were imposed by Brussels. This is what happens when a grown-up Government tries to fix the mess the last one left behind, writes @bearlypolitics.co.uk
No-one’s stolen our fish. No laws were imposed by Brussels. This is what happens when a grown-up Government tries to fix the mess the last one left behind, writes @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Bearly Newsworthy: Brexiteers Wanted Sovereignty. This Is What It Looks Like
No-one’s stolen our fish. No laws were imposed by Brussels. This is what happens when a grown-up Government tries to fix the mess the last one left behind, writes The Bear
www.bylinesupplement.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Worth a read & a share.
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Truly shocking. 700,000 families already in poverty to be pulled even deeper by record cuts to disability support.
Newly released internal government figures lay bare the real extent of the cruel damage these cuts will inflict. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
Newly released internal government figures lay bare the real extent of the cruel damage these cuts will inflict. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP forecasts show
Exclusive: Internal government forecasts obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘truly shocking’ effects of planned cuts
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Truly shocking. 700,000 families already in poverty to be pulled even deeper by record cuts to disability support.
Newly released internal government figures lay bare the real extent of the cruel damage these cuts will inflict. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
Newly released internal government figures lay bare the real extent of the cruel damage these cuts will inflict. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
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This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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LGBT+ Sector Statement on Supreme Court Ruling
April 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
LGBT+ Sector Statement on Supreme Court Ruling
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Just recorded a great chat with Jonathan Fink on his @siliconcurtain.bsky.social podcast this week, alongside my partner Jez.
We spoke about our trips to #Lviv for British people, what’s happening in #Ukraine, and a few other bits too.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ATl8...
We spoke about our trips to #Lviv for British people, what’s happening in #Ukraine, and a few other bits too.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ATl8...
Maria Romanenko - Taking Breaks in Lviv Helps Influential Brits to Understand Ukrainian Resilience
YouTube video by Silicon Curtain
m.youtube.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Just recorded a great chat with Jonathan Fink on his @siliconcurtain.bsky.social podcast this week, alongside my partner Jez.
We spoke about our trips to #Lviv for British people, what’s happening in #Ukraine, and a few other bits too.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ATl8...
We spoke about our trips to #Lviv for British people, what’s happening in #Ukraine, and a few other bits too.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ATl8...
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EDAS Community Wealth Building Video
YouTube video by EDAS Scotland (EDAS)
www.youtube.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM