A Conversation with Bev Craig, and Summer Networking
Join LGBTQ+ business leaders from across the North West for this special evening.
Don your favourite Hawaiian shirt (or your rain mac – it’s still Manchester!) as we celebrate summer with other LGBTQ+ business leaders and allies.
We will hear from the fantastic Bev Craig, the first LGBT+ and first female leader of Manchester Council, network, and sample the fabulous food and drink kindly provided by Brabners.
Book now – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pride-in-leadership-summer-social-and-networking-tickets-526341249847
About Bev Craig
Bev became Leader of Manchester City Council on 1st December 2021. First elected in 2011 as a Burnage Councillor, she held a range of responsibilities on Manchester City Council, including serving for 4 years as Executive Member for Adult Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, then as Deputy Leader overseeing resources, capital programmes, social value and digital.
Born and raised on a council estate just outside of Belfast, she was the first in her family to go to university, moving to Manchester in 2003 to study and made it her home.
According to an article about her in The Guardian, Bev ‘dreamed of moving to Manchester from Northern Ireland after secretly watching Russell T Davies’s Queer As Folk, set in Manchester’s Gay Village, in her bedroom with the sound down’.
After graduating from the University of Manchester she began her career in Local Government, before working in higher education and then a national trade union leading on social care. Alongside working full time Bev completed postgraduate degrees at Warwick Business School and the University of Manchester.
As Executive Member for Adults, Health and Wellbeing she oversaw the integration of Manchester’s health and care services, led the city’s COVID health and community response, manging the crisis and focusing on a more equal recovery, and has championed the City’s work to become a Living Wage City.
Since becoming Leader her focus has been on Manchester’s ambitious COVID recovery, the importance of building a more inclusive and sustainable economy, children and young people, equalities, housing and zero carbon. She holds a range of responsibilities on behalf of the city including the GM Economy, Business and International Portfolio for the Combined Authority and the GM Local Enterprise Partnership.
Outside of politics she enjoys sports and being outdoors, music, culture and enjoying all that Manchester has to offer.
Price – £10.
Please note, we recognise that most business leaders can afford this, but if you are in our community and cannot, please do get in touch as we have made some tickets available for you for free.
Book now
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