The first workshop (Workshop 1) focuses on exploring and sharing practices of building solidarity with, within and between local diverse racialised, gendered and classed communities with the academic community. It also aims to help us extend our long-standing research collaborations across various disciplines (such as Health and Green Research) across the university, including from within the Manchester Institute of Education (e.g., Power, Inequalities, Activism), SEED and Faculty of Humanities and beyond (e.g. medicine) at the University of Manchester. We also build our advisory group for a larger project from this meeting.