Welcome to Greater Manchester’s consultation hub

Our vision, as highlighted in the Greater Manchester Strategy, is to make Greater Manchester one of the best places in the world to grow up, get on and grow old. GMConsult is one of the places you can have your say on what happens in Greater Manchester.

Featured Consultations

  • Get involved in Greater Manchester’s plan for nature

    Like the rest of the country, Greater Manchester faces closely linked climate and biodiversity emergencies. Locally and nationally – we know we all need to do more to support the recovery of nature and increase the benefits it provides to our people and our economy. Greater Manchester Combined Authority is currently developing a Local Nature Recovery Strategy, a new p lan for nature, to set out our local ambitions for nature. You can read more...

    Closes 30 April 2024

    Get involved in Greater Manchester’s plan for nature

Open Consultations & Surveys

  • Get involved in Greater Manchester’s plan for nature

    Like the rest of the country, Greater Manchester faces closely linked climate and biodiversity emergencies. Locally and nationally – we know we all need to do more to support the recovery of nature and increase the benefits it provides to our people and our economy. Greater Manchester Combined Authority is currently developing a Local Nature Recovery Strategy, a new p lan for nature, to set out our local ambitions for nature. You can read more...

    Closes 30 April 2024

    Get involved in Greater Manchester’s plan for nature
  • Employer Supporter’s Action Network (ESAN) Application Form

    Supporting the Mayor’s technical education city region ambitions , Greater Manchester will lead the way in technical education transformation, making it easier to businesses to find the talent they need, and provide the advanced technical skills the UK and GM economies need. Businesses across Greater Manchester are invited to support the seven career tech ed pathways which are led by industry leaders forming the Employer Integration Board . Through joining the Employer...

    Closes 3 April 2026

    Employer Supporter’s Action Network (ESAN) Application Form

Closed Consultations & Surveys

  • Fostering Unfiltered campaign review

    Fostering Unfiltered campaign review

    Fostering Unfiltered is a GMCA campaign with a clear ambition to inspire more people in Greater Manchester, from all walks of life, to become foster carers and provide loving and stable homes to children across the city-region. The campaign embraces the realities of fostering with refreshing honesty and reflects the real lives of existing foster carers by sharing their everyday experiences and...

    Closed 7 April 2024

  • Bee Smart Registration Form

    Bee Smart Registration Form

    The purpose of this registration form is to gain your consent, as a training recipient, to providing your information for the purposes of the delivery of the Bee Smart Project and to provide you with details of how we will handle your data. By completing the registration form, you consent to providing your personal information for the purposes of the delivery of the Bee Smart project....

    Closed 31 March 2024

  • Hate Crime Plan Refresh 2024

    Hate Crime Plan Refresh 2024

    Greater Manchester is a place where everyone should feel safe to be themselves. No one should face violence, abuse or hatred just because of who they are, who they love, where they’re from, what they look like or what they believe. Hate incidents and hate crime will not be tolerated in Greater Manchester. There is a lot of great work taking place to tackle hate crime in each area of...

    Closed 24 March 2024

  • Disposable Vapes and e-cigarettes

    Disposable Vapes and e-cigarettes

    Did you know 5 million single-use vapes are thrown away every week in the UK? That's the equivalent of 8 vapes every second! With this survey, we want to understand behaviours towards buying and getting rid of disposable vapes. We really appreciate your views, the responses recieved will help shape our future campaigns for the residents of Greater Manchester. Please only fill out...

    Closed 11 March 2024

  • Repair Week - Take Part

    Repair Week - Take Part

    Join in with a city-wide repair celebration and we’ll promote the amazing work you do. Repair Week GM is a celebration of all things repair, 11 th -17 th March 2024. We're asking residents all across Greater Manchester to join the repair revolution and we need your help! Whether it’s bikes, clothing, electricals or even something specialist, we want to know about it. It’s the...

    Closed 11 March 2024