Manchester Community Central is a charity and our purpose is quite simply the city of Manchester.
Manchester Community Central is a charity registered in England and Wales no. 1145921 and a company limited by guarantee no. 7788593. Registered office St Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ.
We encourage, support and develop the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations and local people to have a real influence over the places and communities in which they live.
Manchester Community Central is a website through which voluntary and community groups and social enterprises across Manchester can easily get the support, advice and information they need – everything from funding searches through to news about local strategic developments and the hot topics at the Voluntary Sector Assembly.
Click here to view the services available through this site
Manchester Community Central is the organisation which supports the voluntary community and social enterprise sector in the city of Manchester. Manchester Community Central is a registered charity and works with a range of partners and other organisations to increase and develop the support available to the city’s 3300+ voluntary organisations, community groups, charities and social enterprises. Manchester Community Central delivers a wide range of these services including:
- Capacity building for local groups
- Support for local people wishing to volunteer (Volunteer Centre Manchester)
- Policy support, insight and influence - including convening the city’s Voluntary and Community Sector Assembly
- Distributing grants to local groups and projects
We also celebrate the amazing things happening in Manchester's communities with our Spirit of Manchester programme.
All these are available on the Manchester Community Central website.
To find out about who's who in the Manchester Community Central team, visit our Meet the Team page
As a charity whose purpose is to support and develop other voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations, Manchester Community Centralbelieves it is important for us to model best practice. Below are some of the policies we use to inform the way we work as an organisation and an employer.
- Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Complaints, compliments and comments
- Confidentiality policy
- Conflict of Interest
- Equality and Diversity
- Open Data Policy
- Recruitment
- Social Repsonsibility
- Volunteers
Manchester Community Central statement and support to Black Lives Matter
George Floyd was murdered. He was not the first victim of police brutality and nor is America the only country in which this happens. At Manchester Community Central we want to express our solidarity and support to the Black Lives Matters movement and for our brothers and sisters, in Minneapolis, Manchester and around the world rightly fighting for racial and social justice. Read our statement here
Disability Confident
Manchester Community Central is registered Disability Confident Employer (Level 2). This was achieved 2 December 2025 and is valid until 28 November 2028.
21% of staff consider themselves to have a disability (2026 staff survey: 7 out of 34 staff)
As with all our work at Manchester Community Central, our work to embed a culture and practice of equity and inclusion, including our Disability Confident journey, is based on our core values of being collaborative, influential and supportive.
Being Supportive: Health and wellbeing and a flexible approach to working are key parts of Manchester Community Central’s approach to supporting staff, that help to create an inclusive workplace for staff with disabilities. Initiatives such as qualified Mental Health First Aiders, a Menstrual and Menopausal Health policy, and listening to feedback from staff about how workplace practices could be improved all demonstrate our commitment to creating a Disability Confident environment. For example, we have an annual staff survey and a follow-up plan to implement feedback, and we held a focus group as part of the Disability Confident Level 2 process to gather ideas from staff about what we could do better in terms of supporting staff with disabilities.
Being Collaborative: Manchester Community Central has an Equity and Inclusion working group which aims to embed these principles into our internal culture and externally in how we deliver our services and projects for and with the voluntary sector. The group has management representation as well as staff from almost all teams in the organisation, and ‘Board champions’ in areas such as anti-racism too. We have joined up with equalities leads from other voluntary sector infrastructure organisations in Greater Manchester to share best practice, including how to embed a culture of ‘Disability Confidence’ in the context of voluntary sector infrastructure.
Being Influential: As part of our work to influence stakeholders from both the voluntary and statutory sectors, Manchester Community Central has been proactive in sharing our learning from developing our internal policies and practices to be more inclusive of everyone, including staff with disabilities. For example, our Policy and Influence Team has facilitated two training sessions on embedding menstrual health support, one for the VCSE sector and one for Manchester City Council, as well as creating free resources for the voluntary sector to use such as this toolkit.
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