Young People

Manchester Youth Council Update

The Manchester Youth Council is a group of young people who are passionate about giving a voice to the youth of Manchester, raising awareness of issues for young people and having our say about the decisions that affect people’s lives.

How Does it Work?
The membership model offers young people more ways to get involved in the activities of Manchester Youth Council (MYC).

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Youth HELP Training

The Youth Health, Empowerment and Leadership Programme (HELP), provided free by Multicultural Arts and Media Centre (MAMC), will be delivered through a choice of the following 5 modules:
1. Getting to know each other, knowledge of the NHS, what is mental health and mental illness
2. Empowering young people through arts, effective communication and presentation skills
3. Learning through participation (visits to local health and public services)
4. Feedback, evaluation and lessons learnt

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YMCA Manchester Volunteer trustee roles

YMCA Manchester is making a formal call for people to apply for two volunteer trustee roles with their organisation.

Honorary Treasurer
YMCA Manchester are inviting applications for the role of Treasurer. YMCA Manchester currently has a Board comprised of 11 Trustees drawn from the membership of the leisure facility, the Y Club.

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Tools for the Job – free workshops

VYM is offering a series of free workshops for the voluntary youth sector, especially Youth and Play funded organisations. The purpose of these workshops is to offer you the support and training to use effective tools and resources that will help you demonstrate quality and outcomes, to manage and use data, to understand what it takes to submit effective tenders, and to aid your financial reporting.

Manchester Youth Market Programme - Applications now open

The Manchester Youth Market programme is one of We Love Manchester charity’s flagship projects. It will help young, budding entrepreneurs to make the transition from developing a business idea to taking it to the public to test trade.

Working with key partners such as the Princes Trust, Innospace, the Business Growth Hub, the Manchester Enterprise Centre, vInspired and The Manchester College, the programme will ensure young people have access to a wide range of training to prepare them for trading.

Community strikes Gold

On Saturday 17 October 2015, Young people from Community (Youth) on Solid Ground (COSG) became the first ever winners of a new category within the Manchester Sports Awards. The ceremony celebrates some of the excellent and inspiring achievements of positive sporting role models and community organisations from across Manchester’s thriving community sports scene.

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Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Youth Fund

The Youth Fund will provide core funding to organisations within the youth sector and outside. This is a direct response to what Paul Hamlyn Foundation found in from their strategy consultation – that in order to achieve greatest positive impact in the lives of young people you work with or for, you need to achieve a balance of stability, continuity and flexibility.

2015 Starbucks Youth Action programme

UK Youth and Starbucks Coffee Company are delighted to announce the launch of its 2015 Starbucks Youth Action programme.

Are you working with young people aged 16 – 24 who are not in education or employment? Would you like to support them to run a social action programme with funding of up to £1000, with an additional contribution for youth workers support time?

vInspired Cashpoint

Tell vInspired your great idea for a project to solve a problem in your area and they’ll give you cash to make it happen. If you're aged 14-25 and have an idea that will solve a problem in your community vInspired want to help.

Submit a simple application and vInspired could offer you up to £500 to turn your ideas into reality, and help you get your project off the ground. The great thing about Cashpoint is that you run your project the way you want to.

Myths about the voluntary sector - Parts 5 and 6

A few weeks back I met with a group of voluntary & community sector leaders working with children young people and families and our local Director of Children's Services. We were talking about how to build the relationship between the sectors so we hit on the idea of writing a blog to challenge a few myths and misconceptions which tend to distort the relationship.