At Flourish Together, we love spotlighting individuals who are driving real change in their communities—and this July, we’re thrilled to celebrate Beth Collins, the visionary founder of PIE (Pursuing Individual Excellence). Flourish has supported Beth during her start-up phase and have been pleased to have PIE as a core member based at our Flourish Hub […]
Women Changemaker Series
Flourish supports women to create the change they see needed in communities. To date we have supported over 1000 women change makers and financially invested in over 100. The most recent programme Time To Grow supports women from all over Greater Manchester to help them with enterprising solutions to social issues and to create sustainable change
CHANGEMAKER OF THE MONTH – JUNE✨
This month we are proud to celebrate Jayne Mclean Kremer, an innovative changemaker who completed our Time to grow programme in 2024. Jayne is the dedicated founder of Good Earth Community, an organisation on a mission to re-wild natural spaces, reduce biodiversity loss and create permaculture systems in neglected community areas. Passionate about environmental education, Jayne delivers practical […]
CHANGEMAKER OF THE MONTH – MAY✨
This month we are proud to celebrate Yolande Ghola, a dedicated councillor and founder of Salford Community Upskilling an organisation that that provides comprehensive training and learning opportunities for migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and others facing digital exclusion, for whom English is a second language. With French as her first language, the struggles she faced when first moving to […]
CHANGEMAKER OF THE MONTH – APRIL✨
This month we are proud to celebrate Clare Whittaker, a multi talented holistic therapist, trainer, and founder of Hearts (Health Education and Resuscitation Training Services), where she delivers first aid and mental health training to organisations and social enterprises. Over the years, Clare has accessed various training opportunities through Flourish, and collaborated on multiple wellbeing events both internally […]
CHANGEMAKER OF THE MONTH – MARCH✨
This month, we are proud to celebrate entrepreneur and activist, Shamime Jan, the Founding Director of Bollyfit Active, a group which aims to support local women in having a culturally appropriate environment to open up, socialise and stay active. She has also completed both the Time To Grow and We Lead For Legacy Programmes. Shamime is […]
CHANGEMAKER OF THE MONTH – FEBRUARY✨
This month, we are proud to celebrate a dear friend of Flourish, Karen Livesey, a passionate advocate for child protection and the founder of No Whispers CIC, a social enterprise dedicated to safeguarding children and young people from child sexual and criminal exploitation and abuse across the North West. She has also completed our Time 2 Grow programme and is […]