Cooperatives Build a Better World
- May 2025
A New Approach to Community Consultation
An engagement plan for the Our Manchester consultation was developed to reach as wide an audience as possible.
- Lead Member Manchester City Council
- Categories Strategy
- Assets Download Case Study
Principles met
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Community leadership and a new role for councillors
We will explore ways for councils to act as a platform for helping the community to contribute to local outcomes, and to re-think the role of councillors as community connectors, brokers and leaders. -
Democratic engagement
We will support the active engagement of the full range of residents in decision making and priority setting.
OUR MANCHESTER is Manchester City Council’s overarching strategy for the city. The original Our Manchester strategy ran from 2015-2025, and in 2023, we began working on plans for consulting on a new approach. To ensure all the communities in Manchester had the opportunity to participate, an engagement plan was developed to reach as broad an audience as possible. This included targeted intervention through a commission to the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS).
A great deal has changed in the last decade. Manchester’s population has grown considerably in that time and the composition of that population has also altered.
The City Policy team was tasked with developing a wide-ranging consultation approach, and an Equalities Impact Assessment (EqIA) was undertaken to ensure the new strategy was representative of the whole of the city.
For further information contact:
Adrian Slatcher
Principal Policy Officer
Manchester City Council
