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2016 

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority signed Memorandum of Agreement with the Centre for Ageing Better, with an initial goal to help many more people aged 50 and over stay in work and get into work

2017

• Andy Burnham’s Mayoral Manifesto pledged to make Greater Manchester ’the best place to grow older’

• The first Greater Manchester Ageing Conference

• Published The Future of Ageing in GM, to explore the changing demography and social condition of ageing

• Launched ‘Developing a Strategy for Age-Friendly Greater Manchester’ exploring policy and creating a strategy for Greater Manchester to become the first age-friendly city region in the UK

• Launched ‘Some Things Can’t Be Confined to a Box’ age-friendly culture in Greater Manchester

• Launched 'Take a seat' across Greater Manchester

• Launch of £10M Ambition for Ageing programme aimed at creating more age-friendly places in Greater Manchester

2018

• Greater Manchester's age-friendly strategy 2017 – 2020 launched

• Mayor launches age-friendly challenge

• Strategic partnership launched with Centre for Ageing Better

• The Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy (LIS): Progress Statement published with significant focus on an Ageing Society

• Contributed to super-ageing event in Tokyo

• Publication with Centre for Ageing Better of Rightsizing: Reframing the housing offer for older people, with Manchester School of Architecture

2019

• Doing Ageing Differently - Greater Manchester Age Friendly Conference

• Mayor Andy Burnham officially recognised thirty-two neighbourhoods across Greater Manchester as being age-friendly and issued a new challenge to businesses

• Published first Ageing Hub Digest

• Greater Manchester Reform Board agrees to deliver Ageing in Place Programme

• Launch of the Pride in Ageing programme at LGBT Foundation

• Secured £250k for new sector support body for the creative ageing field with national partners

• Trip to Helsinki with Mayor Andy Burnham for the Inaugural Global Silver Economy Forum

2020

• 53 neighbourhoods, across all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester, have been recognised as age-friendly

• Launch of Advantage GM: Unlocking the longevity economy for Greater Manchester

• GMCA, Centre for Ageing Better and DWP announce pilot scheme for Employment Support for over-50s in Greater Manchester

• Responding to Covid-19

• Published our Keeping Well at Home booklet (pdf)

• Distributed 70 thousand copies of the Keeping Well at Home booklet across Greater Manchester

• Greater Manchester's Keeping Well at Home booklet recognised by World Health Organization as case study

• Launched Keeping Well this Winter Campaign

• Shortlisted for UK Research and Innovation's (UKRI) national Health Ageing Challenge fund

• Distributed 16,000 copies of our Creative Care Kits for older adults

• Launched the Valuable Not Vulnerable campaign