Preston Pedals
- March 2025
Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit
Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit
Understanding the strengths, challenges, and needs of the community and determing how local investments will be made
- Lead Member Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
- Categories Community
- Assets Download Case Study
Principles met
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Co-production
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Community leadership and a new role for councillors
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Democratic engagement
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New models of meeting priority needs
Community-led approach
The community-led approach to violence reduction, means the VRU works closely with communities to understand the strengths, challenges, and needs of the community and determine how local investments will be made.
When communities are affected by violence often the key to sustainable solutions can often be found by speaking to local residents about the underlying causes of crime, working with rather than deciding for them.
Working place-based, these initiatives are about learning the priorities in each community and co-designing services with local people that will benefit their community. All ten boroughs across the city region have received funding from the VRU as part of its investment in community-led programmes.
Community Spotlights
Our Community Spotlight Series was launched to amplify the positive stories of young people, community leaders, those with lived experience and other stakeholders from the communities we serve. The series hears from young people who are facilitating positive change within their communities, the work that community organisations are doing within Greater Manchester and real stories of positive change.
Greater than Violence Strategy
For further information contact:
Daniel Diamond
Principal Officer
Serious Violence Partnership Lead
Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit
