News & Opportunities

Are you an experienced operations leader, passionate about creating opportunities and better outcomes for children and young people? Young Manchester is looking for a Head of Operations and Youth Programmes to play a key strategic role in driving the organisation forward; overseeing day-to-day operations, leading programme delivery, and ensuring that young people remain at the heart of everything we do.

£230K, 100+ Young People, 21 Projects: Cheetham Hill’s Children and Young People Take the Lead in Funding Decisions!

Manchester is a paradox, it has one the fastest-growing economies in Europe, and one of the highest child poverty rates in the U.K. with 48% of all children and young people living in poverty.

Big things are happening in Cheetham Hill, and you’re invited to be a part of it! On Monday, February 17th, 2025, we’re hosting Choose for Cheetham – an exciting event where young people like YOU get to decide what projects should get funding in your area.

'Space To Think: The Final Report of the VCSE Covid Recovery Fund 2021-2024' - This report reflects on the fund’s implementation, impact, and lessons learned for future crisis responses.

The Hope for Cheetham Fund offers grants of £5,000 - £30,000 to fund place-based universal youth and play provision in Cheetham Hill that has social action embedded within it.

Are you passionate about empowering young people? Young Manchester is looking for enthusiastic trustees to help shape the future of children and youth in Manchester!

The Hope for Cheetham project is looking to commission a targeted violence interruption programme engaging around 25-30 young people, aged 10-14 in Cheetham Hill, offering high-quality, holistic support focused on violence interruption through a therapeutic approach.

The Young People of Manchester have developed a youth-led funding design surrounding a collaborative project with 42nd Street, “Mental Health and Wellbeing After Covid-19", with a £45,000 grant to fund this project.

MCR Social is a programme supporting disabled and neurodivergent young people to access all Manchester has to offer.