Our partners
We work with community partners across Manchester who run courses and activities around the city as part of our community learning fund programme.
They deliver a programme of community learning activities to encourage Manchester residents to engage in learning, particularly targeting those that mainstream education may struggle to engage. By building confidence, developing skills and getting involved in the local community, learners on these programmes will move towards sustained employment or work experience.
You can find more details on our partners below.
Our community partners for 2026/27
Back on Track are a charity who enable people to make positive lasting changes and are a leading specialist provider of community learning and support to adults experiencing multiple disadvantage. They run a range of courses, activities and volunteering opportunities with unemployed adults going through a period of recovery or rehabilitation, having experienced problems with alcohol or drugs, offending, homelessness, and mental health.
Acorn Academy are a charity who help people break free from drug, alcohol, and other addictions. They provide behavioural change, emotional wellbeing, and addiction awareness training courses for their service users, professionals, and the wider public.
Impact for All are a voluntary community support organisation who are committed to providing their services and a secure place to people in the city of Manchester who may find themselves in a tight spot or in need of support. Their support is aimed at raising an individual’s self-confidence, improving their skills and motivation tailored for the residents and the barriers they face.
Manchester Deaf Centre is the largest local organisation who provide support to the local deaf community and beyond in Greater Manchester. Their vision is one of a society in which the deaf community is fully included: able to contribute to community and access services with confidence and ease.
Manchester Young Lives are a children and youth charity who focus on working with disadvantaged young people aged 5-24. They work with over 4,000 young people across Manchester each year and their roots lie in the co-operation of local people and communities coming together to create their own opportunities through adventure play. Through their work encouraging positive learning experiences, the majority of the young people that they work with make a successful transition to further learning, training and employment.
Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) was founded in 2019 after Sam, Jo and Mike took over a disused bowling green in a public park in 2017 and turned it into a community market garden, Platt Fields Market Garden. Recognising the need for more green spaces like PFMG in the city, they formed MUD. The MUD team has grown, now helping to make beautiful gardens in urban spaces, where people grow, cook and eat delicious, healthy food together. These gardens are hubs for thriving, connected communities, havens for nature, and visions of a fair and sustainable alternative way to supply the food we need to be part of a fairer food system.
Proper Job are a theatre company based in Manchester with a history of profound engagement using the arts and theatre-based techniques to help individuals develop their own voice, realise aspirations and connect to their community. They seek to inspire, challenge and raise the ambitions of their learners through the range of courses they provide. Their projects are based upon the three guiding principles of Learn, Achieve, Believe (LAB) Once students start to learn they begin to recognise they can achieve, and by achieving, they develop a stronger belief in themselves.
Reform Radio are a multi award-winning online radio station and arts organisation who work with local creatives, DJs and young people to develop and showcase new work via their online platforms. Their large active community works together to create all the content on Reform Radio, supported by regular outside broadcasts within the city, as well as specially recorded shows from artists across the globe.
Caritas Salford is a charity that offers help and guidance to vulnerable people such as those experiencing homelessness, families in crisis and those seeking asylum. They advocate for social justice and aim to create an equal society by helping those who are most vulnerable.