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Salford
Youth Club

BAYSE

Salford Community Leisure’s Active Communities ran youth club at Brookhouse Community Centre. In partnership with Salford Youth Service, BAYSE youth club has been running for 10 years.

Activities include football, tennis, rugby, flag football, rounders, pool, table tennis and more. Sessions also have art themed group work, Dance, gymnastics, cooking, consoles and Lego. Each week is a different theme. Come down and join in make new friendships and be part of our group.

Rochdale
Boxing Cricket Fishing sessions Football Martial Arts Rugby School Based Programme Sport Thai Boxing

Your Trust

Your Trust work in partnership with other local partners to provide evening sessions across the different Boroughs of Rochdale for local residents aged 8 to 16.

Delivered by qualified Your Trust coaches in communities that need them most, activities include cricket, football, racket sports, arts and crafts. We also work with external providers to offer a wider range of opportunities, including hairdressing, barbering, inclusive football and martial arts, helping young people stay active, develop new skills and engage positively within their communities.

Rochdale
Art

CWA Resident Artist

Free arts workshops at The Yard Youth Centre, Darnhill, for young people (11-19) years old. No experience needed, just have a go.
Cartwheel Arts, in partnership with RBC Youth Service, are offering 12 art sessions every term at the Thursday open youth session. Run by professional artists this is a safe place to try out something new. Who knows, it might be your next obsession. Interested?

Trafford
Community group

Freedom Personal Safety

Freedom Personal Safety creates and delivers bespoke training designed to empower individuals and communities to be and feel safe. We specialise in creating tailor-made courses and workshops that fit the precise needs of different community groups, on topics including self defence, healthy relationships, responding to harassment and coping with anxiety. Our holistic approach builds practical skills, emotional confidence, and risk awareness in a safe, informal environment, ensuring every session is relevant, accessible, and empowering.

Rochdale
School Based Programme

Rochdale Connections Trust

Best Life is a 12-week school-based programme, where through interactive group sessions, participants develop the knowledge and skills needed to make safe, informed, and positive life choices. It helps young people build healthy relationships, improve emotional wellbeing, increase self-esteem, and recognise the risks of abuse, grooming, and exploitation. Through interactive group sessions, participants develop the knowledge and skills needed to make safe, informed, and positive life choices.

Tameside
Youth Club

Ashton Youth Club

Bringing personal and social development to the heart of our community. Ashton Youth Club is an inclusive youth and community provision run by Lindley Educational Trust, a long-established charity with a strong track record of delivering outdoor adventure and personal development opportunities.

At the heart of Ashton Youth Club is a simple aim: to break down barriers, bring people together and help young people and families thrive through positive experiences in the outdoors. We provide a safe, welcoming space where young people can build friendships, develop confidence and discover new interests. Alongside our regular youth clubs and sports sessions, we offer a wide range of activities and opportunities designed to support personal growth, teamwork and long-term skills development.

Tameside
Leisure Sport

Active Tameside

Active Tameside provides the local community with outstanding leisure, pastime and holistic wellbeing activities which generate both social and economic benefits for our users. We do this in a sustainable manner that is both inclusive and socially considered.
Our vision is to inspire the people of Tameside into living healthier, happier and more active lives as part of their local community.

Bolton
School Based Programme

Great Lever and Farnworth Voice

To improve the lives and opportunities of young people by teaching them about different aspects of safety. Helping them develop confidence, positive relationships and life opportunities whilst having fun
The qualifications we can offer are relevant to what career they want to seek.
Most of our members have been excluded, or they do not attend school because mainstream education is not for them.
We feel our provision is a stepping stone for them to enable them to move forward in their lives.

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I AM GREATER

The I am Greater campaign was developed with young people from Greater Manchester to encourage them to take positive actions to reduce the likelihood of young people experiencing violence.

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