New Black Leaders Toolkit and Events Calendar Launch for Black History Month 2025

The Caribbean & African Health Network (CAHN), in partnership with Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), today launches two new resources to celebrate Black History Month 2025 across Greater Manchester.

The Black Leaders Toolkit 2025 and Greater Manchester Black History Month Events Calendar go live on 30th September 2025, offering free, ready-to-use materials for organisations, educators, community groups, and individuals across the region.

Black Leaders Toolkit 2025

The toolkit spotlights four remarkable Black leaders connected to Greater Manchester:

• Sharon Amesu – Award-winning speaker and former barrister, shaping courageous and inclusive leadership from the Northwest to global stages.
• Rev Francess Davies-Tagoe – 25 years of compassionate social action in Manchester's communities, leading the Tree of Life Centre in Wythenshawe.
• Sir W. Arthur Lewis – Manchester's first Black lecturer and professor, Nobel Prizewinner in Economics (1979).
• Prof David Olusoga OBE – British-Nigerian historian and Professor of Public History in Manchester, author of Black and British: A Forgotten History.

The toolkit includes inspiring biographies, quote cards, ready-to-use graphics, and copy-and paste social media content, designed for anyone to use.

Greater Manchester Black History Month Events Calendar

This online events calendar showcases Black History Month celebrations across the region. This community-driven directory enables organisations and individuals to submit their own events, creating a resource by the community, for the community. Event submissions to the calendar are being accepted now at this link.

Charles Kwaku-Odoi DL, Chief Executive of CAHN and member of the GM VCFSE Leadership Group, said:

"As we launch Black History Month across Greater Manchester, our theme, Eighty Years of Pan African and Caribbean Resilience, reminds us that the pursuit of liberation has always included the right to health, dignity, and wellbeing. The Fifth Pan African Congress, held in Manchester in 1945, laid the foundation for collective progress. Today, that legacy continues through initiatives like this toolkit and directory, which celebrate our communities' contributions and connect us to the resilience and excellence that have always defined us."

Natacha Pires, Head of Communications & Marketing at CAHN, said:

"We are delighted to share this calendar and directory in partnership with GMCA. We believe there is true value in keeping history alive and in the celebration of Caribbean and African people in Greater Manchester and beyond. In times where animosity might seem to grow in our country, it is important, even more so, to contribute to an equitable society that values every person. This calendar and directory are for the people we serve and our many allies that want to discover more about Black History Month."