This chapter gathers together several smaller strands of the Manchester Voices project that, while less central than the core research components, offer valuable insights into language, identity, and public engagement. It begins with an attitudes task using a verbal guise methodology to explore how listeners evaluate regional voices in terms of friendliness, social status, and likeability. The chapter then outlines Talking about Voices, a podcast training resource created for schools during the Covid-19 pandemic, which enabled students to explore language and identity through creative audio projects. Next, it reflects on the project’s poetry workshops, highlighting both their potential and limitations in connecting marginalised voices to themes of place and belonging. The chapter ends with reflections on public talks, prompting wider questions about generational change, the future of dialect celebration, and how we value non-academic contributions to linguistic research. Taken together, these strands demonstrate the power of creative and community-based approaches to sociolinguistics and the importance of recognising the meaning such contributions hold for participants.