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The charity targeting deprivation to improve children’s literacy and life chances in Greater Manchester
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The charity targeting deprivation to improve children’s literacy and life chances in Greater Manchester

Schoolreaders is a national charity working in Greater Manchester to improve children’s reading ability. Read on to learn why their work is necessary.
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Greater Manchester’s collective history: Jenny, People’s History Museum
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Greater Manchester’s collective history: Jenny, People’s History Museum

Jenny Mabbott is Head of Collections & Engagement at People’s History Museum, based in Manchester. She has worked on a number of the museum’s programmes highlighting key moments in UK democracy and social change, from LGBTQIA+ rights to migration, and commemorating moments in our radical history from the expansion of voting rights to the Peterloo Massacre.
ByByAlice Toomer-McAlpine
Highlights from Supreme Court trans rights protests 18 & 19 April 2025 in Manchester
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Highlights from Supreme Court trans rights protests 18 & 19 April 2025 in Manchester

Our video provides glimpses of the emergency protests held on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 April 2025 in Manchester following the ruling of the UK Supreme Court on 16 April that the definition of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to ‘biological sex’, meaning “the sex of a person at birth”.
ByByKacy Preen
Manchester Five – is justice in a wig and gown or in orange paint?
Opinion

Manchester Five – is justice in a wig and gown or in orange paint?

ByEzra Storme Ravenwood
Greater Manchester’s collective history: Rose, Support and Action for Women’s Network
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Greater Manchester’s collective history: Rose, Support and Action for Women’s Network

ByAlice Toomer-McAlpine
St Peter’s Square camp eviction hearing 13 January 2025
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St Peter’s Square camp eviction hearing 13 January 2025

ByJason Ioannou

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Greater Manchester Combined Authority launches new scheme to create better landlords
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Greater Manchester Combined Authority launches new scheme to create better landlords

Both private and social landlords are being encouraged to support the initiative, with membership and full accreditation dependent on their housing meeting the standards laid out in the charter. According to GMCA the goal of the charter is to provide good…

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From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

The war in Ukraine has destroyed cultural venues, but artists are using their talents to keep Ukraine’s stories alive and assist the war effort.
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Salford based sport league offers an inclusive space for trans and non-binary people

Salford based sport league offers an inclusive space for trans and non-binary people

Rainy City Roller Derby (RCRD) is offering an inclusive sporting space for trans and non-binary people across the North West.
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Deliveroo Drivers: Mobile workers with a Mobile Union

Deliveroo Drivers: Mobile workers with a Mobile Union

Covid 19: face masks, boredom, Deliveroo and Zoom were some of the key features of that mundane, samey yet scary period. The use of face masks may have waned, but the popularity of food delivery services such as Deliveroo and Just Eat hasn’t. Food delivery riders are now a more common sight than postal workers; both professions carry a heavy load and involve long, hard hours but the main difference between them is that one workforce is supported by a large, established, wealthy union, the CWU. The other isn’t.
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From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

ByByZoe Hodges
The war in Ukraine has destroyed cultural venues, but artists are using their talents to keep Ukraine’s stories alive and assist the war effort.
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Salford based sport league offers an inclusive space for trans and non-binary people

ByByAnja Jungmayr
Rainy City Roller Derby (RCRD) is offering an inclusive sporting space for trans and non-binary people across the North West.
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Deliveroo Drivers: Mobile workers with a Mobile Union

ByByEmma Roy-Williams
Covid 19: face masks, boredom, Deliveroo and Zoom were some of the key features of that mundane, samey yet scary period. The use of face masks may have waned, but the popularity of food delivery services such as Deliveroo and Just Eat hasn’t. Food delivery riders are now a more common sight than postal workers; both professions carry a heavy load and involve long, hard hours but the main difference between them is that one workforce is supported by a large, established, wealthy union, the CWU. The other isn’t.
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What’s on in June

What’s on in June

Whether summer’s just round the corner or has already passed us by, this June brings with it a load of local happenings for all kinds of weather. From the Festival…

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Greater Manchester’s collective history: Jenny, People’s History Museum

Greater Manchester’s collective history: Jenny, People’s History Museum

Jenny has also worked on the museum’s Nothing About Us Without Us programme, curated in partnership with the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People. Represent! Voices 100 years on exhibition at…

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Friends of The Meteor

The Friends of The Meteor category contains articles that have been published elsewhere and  selected by The Meteor team as worthy of sharing to our audience. They will generally have a Manchester or Greater Manchester focus and are from publications we trust and respect.

From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal
Culture

From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

The war in Ukraine has destroyed cultural venues, but artists are using their talents to keep Ukraine’s stories alive and assist the war effort.
ByByZoe Hodges
Salford based sport league offers an inclusive space for trans and non-binary people
News

Salford based sport league offers an inclusive space for trans and non-binary people

Rainy City Roller Derby (RCRD) is offering an inclusive sporting space for trans and non-binary people across the North West.
ByByAnja Jungmayr
Deliveroo Drivers: Mobile workers with a Mobile Union
Features

Deliveroo Drivers: Mobile workers with a Mobile Union

Covid 19: face masks, boredom, Deliveroo and Zoom were some of the key features of that mundane, samey yet scary period. The use of face masks may have waned, but the popularity of food delivery services such as Deliveroo and Just Eat hasn’t. Food delivery riders are now a more common sight than postal workers; both professions carry a heavy load and involve long, hard hours but the main difference between them is that one workforce is supported by a large, established, wealthy union, the CWU. The other isn’t.
ByByEmma Roy-Williams