Whitemoss Club for Young People is a community centre in Charlestown (North Manchester) which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. The centre is very well used; with a whole range of activities taking place six days a week, there’s always something going on! The centre is particularly busy on Fridays, with activities for children, young people and over 50s taking place.
At 9am in the morning an upstairs room at Yes Manchester is being transformed into a clothes shop for local people. But this is a shop with a difference. Everything has been donated, everyone is a volunteer and everything in free. Yes is a service that helps people find jobs and take control of their future and volunteer Marika has run the annual clothes event for the last couple of years.
Angie has been working as a support housing manager at Manchester Settlement for the last 13 years. She and her team support people living in two projects, one for care leavers and looked after children and the other for single homeless people with support needs.
The DAVE (Deaf, Actively, Volunteering, Experience) project helps 35 young people (aged 16-25), with a wide range of hearing defects, to manage the transition from education to whatever they want to do next.
The Help Through Crisis Drop-in offers free advice and support for 15-25 year olds and ran from 2pm-4pm on Wednesday 21st September. This is a project in partnership with Young People’s Support Foundation and Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People. It was staffed by a volunteer advisor but recently they have been able to add two paid workers as well. They’ve seen three people today but this service is only just starting so people are still finding out what times the service is open (2pm-4pm Wednesday and Friday).
Both programmes offer participants the chance to meet and build relationships with the UK's most senior leaders; learn about decision-making on a local, national and global level; as well as run their own social action campaigns or projects on issues that they feel passionately about. 
Individuals are matched with personal coaches and professional mentors, based on their own aspirations.
Our State of the Sector Survey in 2013 found that there were 3,093 voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in Manchester, with an estimated income of £477 million. The sector employed the equivalent of 12,400 full time staff and 94,300 volunteers gave 370,000 hours, with an estimated value of £332 million. Decision makers took note of the survey results, we know it increased their understanding of the sector. Some of the key facts (3093 organisations, 94,300 volunteers) are now widely quoted by colleagues in the Council, the NHS and other bodies such as Big Lottery Fund.
Tell MAMA (the organisation that measures anti-Muslim attacks) is looking for 18 to 25 year olds from any background to join their Youth Leadership Programme. You should be interested in tackling hate crimes and Islamophobia, and willing to become members of the Tell MAMA’s Greater Manchester Board.
From September 2016, City in the Community will be running an employability skills programme aimed at young people aged between 18-24 years old who are currently not in employment, education or training. 
City in the Community is the community programme of Manchester City Football Club and was originally formed in 1894 to combat anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol, health issues and unemployment in the local community.
The Challenge are hosting their annual reunion event for summer participants on Saturday 8 October 2016,12pm-6pm. The event will see 200+ young people age 15-17 take part in 45 minute workshops from organisations like Media Trust, Fixers and Restless Development. 