GM=EqAl Conference 2026 Equity By Design: Practice Through Lived Experience
Join us for the GM=EqAl's Conference 2026 for Equity By Design: Practice Through Lived Experience — a full day of earnest joy, reflections and practical learning. We’re bringing together community leaders, lived-experience partners, commissioners and practitioners to explore how we can design more equitable systems with and through lived expertise.
Throughout the day, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Shape the future of community wellbeing in Greater Manchester by feeding into GM=EqAl’s role in the Live Well: Spaces of Hope and Connection programme.
- Gain practical insights from Year 1 of the Inclusion & Wellbeing Fund — and influence Year 2, funded by the Live Well Community Fund.
- Discover how GM=EqAl can strengthen your work, explore ways to join our Network and Working Group, and connect with others committed to equity and belonging.
- Build your confidence in using Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) tools by learning about the resources currently in development and contributing to the creation of practical, lived‑experience‑informed EIA tools.
- Immerse yourself in a 2‑hour Voice of Lived Experience Seminar, offering space for courageous listening, insight, and applied learning.
We’ll also celebrate community impact with performances and showcases from projects funded by the Inclusion and Wellbeing Fund.
This event will include a mix of plenaries, parallel sessions and hands-on design labs. We will capture outputs and named commitments for follow‑up.
GM=EqAl are a working group of the GM VCFSE Leadership Group. Find out more about them here.
