We are Oldham Positive Action Network
We’re not here just to talk, to share our voice, but to act. Together we are taking positive action, to tackle social and economic injustice, to change the systems around us.
Who We Are
The Oldham Positive Action Network (OPAN) builds on the work of a Poverty Truth Commission that concluded in 2022 and turned into Oldham Poverty Action Network. We changed our name in 2024, partly to reflect the broader scope of Oldham LocalMotion. But mostly, as one of our Lived Experience Advisers put it, “Who wants to join something about poverty”.
OPAN is made up local residents, people working in local community organisations and public sector practitioners. It is the main way we deliver the work in Oldham. Local Motion provides resourcing, learning, strategic oversight and peer support.
We have ambitions to make OPAN a broader “movement” (whatever we mean by one) to gather and build the power of people with a connection to Oldham.