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Alice Toomer-McAlpine

Co-founder of The Meteor, Alice is a community worker and journalist from Manchester who works across a range of roles including youth work, community organising, video production and creative documentation of non-profit projects. Alice is interested in how the stories we create and share shape the world we live in, and how communities can take ownership of their stories and build trust with local independent media to build collective power.

Five Christian ministers gather for a photo. Three are men, two are women, and they're all white & middle-aged.

Let’s End Poverty: Manchester joins national movement as British attitudes shift

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 27 November 2023News

The next online session takes place on 7 December

A photomontage of Sam Conniff and logos and images of some of the projects he's worked on.

The uncertain pirate

By Naomi Davies, Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 6 June 2023Features

Interview with Sam Conniff, author of Be More Pirate and founder of Uncertainty Experts

Event attendees browse a selection of kitchenware, which is laid out on tables within a white marquee

2.6 tonnes of free kitchen kit dished out at Manchester community event

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 13 December 2022Features

The ‘kitchen kit redistribution day’ took place in Hulme on Saturday

bees on honeycomb

Co-ops and climate justice: Preview of October’s Ways Forward 2022

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 30 September 2022Friends of The Meteor

More than 150 co-operators are due to gather in Manchester to discuss community-led responses to the global heating crisis

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Local social enterprise Cracking Good Food shares low-fuel cooking guide

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 24 September 2022News

Cracking Good Food’s guide contains budget recipes, meal plans and shopping lists to help people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.

A waiting crowd gathers outside Manchester Cathedral for the Enough is Enough rally.

Manchester says: Enough is Enough

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine, Eddie Toomer-McAlpine | 1 September 2022News

Enough Is Enough campaign launches in Manchester with thousands joining together to hear rousing speeches from union leaders, MPs and community groups.

National Youth Summit, 11th July 2022

National Youth Summit offers co-operative solutions to the next generation

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 8 July 2022Friends of The Meteor

A National Youth Summit has been called by Co-operatives UK offering young people the chance to explore radical solutions to the big topics of the day – from job security and mental health, to climate action and ethical working.

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Embrace change at a pop-up clothes swap in Greater Manchester

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 8 November 2021Features

Want to change up your style in an eco-conscious, budget-friendly way? Dress to address change at one of Greater Manchester’s pop-up swap shops.

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Mutual aid groups have been a lifeline to many – should they continue post-pandemic?

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 8 October 2020Features

The pandemic lockdown saw communities banding together to provide support for the vulnerable, filling the gaps to support left by a slow to act state. Mutual aiders describe the challenges they face providing help during the Covid-19 crisis.

Beyond charity: Greater Manchester’s mutual aid response to coronavirus

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 6 May 2020Features

Like Toto in the Wizard of OZ, the coronavirus crisis has pulled back the curtain to reveal the inner workings of our society. The precarity of the vulnerable and how many of us are much closer to that vulnerability than we realised. The new light has revealed who’s work is truly essential and how deeply […]

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