The Manchester Systems Project is funded by Lankelly Chase through the Ubele Initiative. It forms part of Lankelly Chase’s wider work on systems change and its efforts to rethink its role, purpose, and ways of operating. The project focuses on how best to support the most excluded communities in the UK.

Project Aims

The Manchester Systems Project seeks to enable organisations to engage in and eventually lead systems change initiatives through the following aims:

1. Create spaces for dialogue to explore severe and multiple disadvantages affecting Black and minoritised communities in Manchester.
2. Introduce Black and minoritised organisations to systems change strategies and models that increase understanding of systemic issues.
3. Build the capacity and capability of Black and minoritised organisations to respond to systemic social issues in Manchester through creative methodologies and approaches.
4. Explore ways of intervening in systems that can facilitate transformational change.
5. Design and test at least one creative response to help shift stuck systemic issues affecting Black and minoritised communities in Manchester.