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joesarling.bsky.social
Strategic Director at @gmmoving.co.uk 🐝 Economist working on #systemchange & prevention in physical activity, health & placemaking ▪ Geeky about devolution, housing, social impact ▪ FRSA ❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻‍♂️🏃
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@andyburnham.bsky.social - "Our core proposal is to create a...Live Well service delivered through trusted grassroots organisations to provide a range of everyday support & social interventions to our residents, helping them to remove barriers & take more control of their physical & mental health"

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

A typically considered and useful piece by @jpspencer.bsky.social on the Green Book here. Think the changes set out in this piece align with what I've called the 'culture & practice' of the Green Book in Whitehall. Time to reestablish it as an important *guide* following clear strategic objectives.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

"Government will outline plans to locate 50% of UK-based senior civil servants in regional offices by 2030...[and] wants to create three new regional campuses, one in Manchester focused on digital innovation and AI & a second in Aberdeen focused on energy. The third location is yet to be announced."

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

@andyburnham.bsky.social - "Our core proposal is to create a...Live Well service delivered through trusted grassroots organisations to provide a range of everyday support & social interventions to our residents, helping them to remove barriers & take more control of their physical & mental health"

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

A wonderful day at the #GMMoving conference. A joy to join 900 people across GM’s movement for movement. The movement that keeps moving, learning & giving. Grateful to everyone who joined in and especially the brilliant panelists who joined me to discuss how we create system and culture change.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to everyone who joined us at GM Moving Conference 2025. Your energy and ideas made it a day of celebration and action. We’ll share slides and photos soon — but for now, what did you take away? What changed for you as a result of joining us today? Let us know. #GMMoving #ActiveLivesForAll

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"A huge new national nature reserve, to be called the Bradford Pennine Gateway, is being announced by the government on Tuesday. It will give Bradford, one of Britain’s largest and most nature-deprived cities, easier and more protected access to green space" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"Michael Bloomberg once described his collaboration with Foster, on a European headquarters in London, as one between 'a billionaire who wanted to be an architect and an architect who wanted to be a billionaire'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Physical Activity 🏃‍♀️ Sport 🏃‍♂️ Public Sector 🏛 Education 🎓 Health 🏥 Housing 🏠 Transport 🚲 ...and more! People from all these sectors are signed up to explore how movement can drive change in health, equity, and wellbeing. Join on 12 May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gm-moving-... #GMMConference2025

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"In the 20th century free-market intellectual framework — the one in which most western professionals built their careers — it was...assumed that rational economic self interest ruled the roost...Politics seemed to be derivative of economics — not the other way around." www.ft.com/content/daf5...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"More than half of first-time buyers received financial help from their family to make house purchases last year...[at] an average of £55,572" Link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to announce Olympian Abigail Irozuru will join our #GMMovingConference2025! She brings powerful insight on movement, inclusion & belonging — from the world stage to community impact. 🎟️ Tickets: buff.ly/cZWec4o #Inspiration #Leadership

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"More than half of first-time buyers received financial help from their family to make house purchases last year...[at] an average of £55,572" Link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible analysis published by DWP on the cost of working age ill-health and disability that prevents work. If we don't focus on prevention and don't create the conditions for healthy thriving communities this is the cost. (HT @felly500.bsky.social) Link: www.gov.uk/government/s...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

⏳ Less than two weeks until #GMMovingConference2025 This is your chance to be in the room with leaders, changemakers, and innovators coming together to shape a healthier, more active #GreaterManchester. More information and tickets: buff.ly/7lTgnOw #ActiveLivesForAll #Leadership #Health #Sport

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible analysis published by DWP on the cost of working age ill-health and disability that prevents work. If we don't focus on prevention and don't create the conditions for healthy thriving communities this is the cost. (HT @felly500.bsky.social) Link: www.gov.uk/government/s...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"I went for my first run the next day and realised pretty quickly that I loved ultra-running. I love being outside, the breadth of phenomenal people you meet [who] you wouldn't come across in everyday life" www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"I went for my first run the next day and realised pretty quickly that I loved ultra-running. I love being outside, the breadth of phenomenal people you meet [who] you wouldn't come across in everyday life" www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A welcome breath of fresh air as @mark-carney.bsky.social leads with three values in his victory speech: humility, ambition, and unity. globalnews.ca/news/1115459...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

This is a fascinating #ukhousing article. - No housing starts in 23 of London’s 33 boroughs (Jan-Mar) - Only 1,210 homes started in London (lowest quarterly figure since GFC) - Economic performance concerns by developers/builders starting to rise? Link: www.knightfrank.com/research/art...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

"Hundreds of young men & women, lads & girls, in their picturesque rambling gear: shorts of every length & colour, flannels & breeches...vivid colours & drab khaki…multi-coloured sweaters & pullovers, army packs & rucksacks of every size and shape" www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning-abo...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

These numbers are remarkable.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Yes, it's about breaking down barriers and helping to build *movement* into everyone's day-to-day lives. To do this requires system change focused on barriers/inequalities. It needs an emphasis on local (place-based) solutions. Needs joined-up thinking. Link: www.gmmoving.co.uk/news/tacklin...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

An important piece that strikes at the heart of the importance of reliable & robust data, the public investment required to get it, & the need for a collaborative culture. But it also makes me think of the need for a suite of sources, a mix of quant & qual, reliable evaluation. on.ft.com/3WSCN6h

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment