Young People

LandAid's vision is a country where no young person is homeless. LandAid aims to bring about lasting change by helping tackle the causes of youth homelessness and contributing to the provision of safe supported housing for those who need it most.

LandAid award grants to outstanding projects on the ground that work to give young people the shelter and support they need.

The NOMA Fund offers awards of up to £1,000 to grassroots community organisations working with young people aged between 11 and 25 years old. Activity needs to be taking place and supporting those who live within the boundary of the M60 motorway. Annual income of groups applying to the Fund should be less than £100,000. Awards of up to £1,000 are available.

The Youth Social Action Fund is open to community groups for grants between £1,000 and £5,000 that will promote volunteering, fundraising and campaigning amongst young people aged between 10 and 20 (25 years for young people with disabilities). This fund is part of the wider multi-agency #iwill campaign.

The Walk for Change brings together hundreds of young people every year, marching together, demanding a greater voice in our society.

The event aims to inspire young people across Greater Manchester to recognise their own power as social change leaders and the power they have when they come together.

Levenshulme Youth Project is a small community project delivering a range of projects and activities for children and young people aged 8 years+ in Levenshulme and Longsight since 2012. Levenshulme Youth Project are very much a grass roots organisation and have been running with a voluntary management committee.

Young Manchester is an independent, city wide Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) set up to develop a new way of working to support Youth and Play services for children and young people across Manchester, by working with partner agencies to commission work at a local level.

This is an opportunity for young people aged 12-18 living in Wythenshawe to learn how to look after green spaces. Aged between 12 and 18 and live in Wythenshawe? Want to get involved and make a difference to your local green space? Want to make friends and try something different? Do you like being outside in all weather and getting stuck in? If yes, then this is the role for you.

Manchester charities The Proud Trust, Albert Kennedy Trust, 42nd Street and LGBT Foundation are proud to launch their Greater Manchester research ‘Getting it Right: what young LGBT people want and need’.

All organisations and professionals who work with children and young people need to know more about LGBT young people in order to be able to do their job well.

Voluntary Youth Manchester (VYM) is seeking a researcher to research into their current membership and to create recommendations for VYM’s activity and structure for the next three years.

This role is suitable for someone freelance or as a paid secondment from another organisation.

As momentum gathers around integrated health and social care and children’s health and wellbeing, there are various calls for evidence around the voice of children and young people.

42nd Street with Youth Focus NW and Young Minds are aware of an awful lot of great work that has taken place over recent years to capture this voice and they are trying to gather this into one place and make some central sense of it to inform, amongst other things the GM commissioning framework for CAMHS and a broader charter around children and young people’s health and social care.