Launching Healthy Me Healthy Communities

Business Plan and Impact Report

2025-2028 

Healthy Me Healthy Communities (HMHC) has launched our 2025–2028 Business Plan and Impact Report, setting out our strategic priorities for the next three years alongside the outcomes and learning from our recent work across Manchester.


The report highlights our continued commitment to community power, place-based working and reducing health inequalities, with a clear focus on delivering practical, community-led solutions rooted in local assets and lived experience.

Impact numbers for 2025
- 3000 hours of community activities delivered 
- 1400 Attendances at our Ageing in Place activities
- 4000 Visits to Gorton Central Food Hub
- £40k Saved by Food Hub members 
- 6 tonnes of fresh produce redistributed
- 18 local volunteers giving over 3500 hours per year
- 3 Local people employed with quality jobs and pay
- 3000+ Hours of adult learning across Greater Manchester 
- 330 Accredited qualifications
- 16 Residents supported in their Making Manchester Fairer Community Forum role
- 100+ Taking part in health research workshops
- £30k Given out in grants to older people activities using participatory budgeting
- £500k In revenue income secured for delivery of community programmes

Key highlights include:

  • Strengthened community power and participation, supporting residents to shape decisions, services and neighbourhood plans
  • Expanded food system and food security work, linking health, skills, sustainability and the circular economy
  • Investment in learning, skills and progression, including accredited qualifications and pathways into employment
  • Deepened cross-sector partnerships, working with statutory, academic and VCSE partners to influence systems and policy
  • Clear evidence of social value and impact, with room hire, training and community activity reinvesting directly into community benefit

The 2025 – 2028 Business Plan sets out HMHC’s ambitions to:

  • Grow Gorton Central as a thriving community anchor and innovation space
  • Strengthen organisational sustainability through ethical income generation
  • Embed co-production, inclusion and transparency across all areas of work
  • Scale learning from neighbourhood-level delivery to influence wider systems change

This publication is for partners, funders, commissioners and collaborators who share our commitment to inclusive growth, health equity and community-led change. Read the full 2025–28 Business Plan and Impact Report on our website and explore how we can continue to work together to create lasting, meaningful impact across Manchester.


Download the report here

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