NSC Oration: Building Healthier Communities: How Greater Manchester Moving is Uniting Local Government, Health, Sport, and Leisure for more Active Cities, Improved Health Outcomes and Growing Participation

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
3:45 PM - 4:20 PM

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GM Moving connects local government, health, sport, community leisure, exercise, and so much more to build healthier communities and active cities around Greater Manchester. Exploring how to bring all the collaborators together with a single vision and aligned strategic directions and policies across the region of Councils in Greater Manchester. Integrating physical activity into Health and Care delivery can improve health outcomes in the community.


Speaker

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Hayley Lever
CEO
Greater Manchester Moving

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Biography

For 30 years, Hayley has played a leadership role in physical activity, sport, policy, and community development, currently as CEO of GM Moving. She is a committed community volunteer and charity trustee where she lives in the Peak District and supports several advisory boards and communities of practice and learning. Hayley has always believed in the power of an active life for health, happiness, friendship, and community. She is a passionate advocate of this agenda in her culture change, system change, behaviour change work in Greater Manchester and beyond. She supports, works with, and learns from colleagues across England, and through the Global Community of Practice on whole systems approaches to inactivity and inequalities, which she founded in 2023. Hayley’s role involves leading for change and shifting culture and systems across the whole devolved and integrated system in Greater Manchester, including health, local government, charity, private and social enterprise sectors. She has developed her understanding of working in complex systems from a community perspective and a strategic one. She is convinced that a whole system approach to supporting active lives is the only way we will succeed in designing moving back into everyday life and addressing health inequalities. Hayley is known for leading with humility and curiosity and for her open approach to learning and connecting others, through her writing, podcasts, hosting and facilitating of spaces for people to connect and build relationships, so that they can do great work together. She recognises that working in complexity is challenging, and practices what she preaches as she disconnects, unwinds, and make sense of the work, whilst walking, swimming, running in the Peak District, UK, where she lives. She believes that we do our best work when we are physically and mentally well and supports her teams and colleagues to put that first.
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