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.

Young people aged 11-18 are being provided with weekly 1-2-1 sessions with an experienced youth worker. These sessions are designed to empower young people to become emotionally resilient and capable of achieving their full potential.

Alongside mentoring, Groundwork creates a safe, inclusive space where young people can make friends, build confidence and shape activities that matter to them. Through social action and environmental projects, young people develop skills, improve wellbeing and have their voices heard on local issues.

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.

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?

Weekly children’s creative drop in: Moss Side Powerhouse Tuesdays 4-5pm; Aquarius Community centre 5.30-6.30pm
Creative Coffee: Fortnightly drop in for adults looking to reduce isolation, increase wellbeing or try something new. Hot lunch included. 12.30-3pm every other Friday.
Second Act: Fortnightly theatre group for adults with experience of homelessness. 10.30-1pm every other Friday. Hot lunch included.
Wellbeing Your Way: 12-week mental health programme using creativity and connection to increase wellbeing through 1:1 sessions and small groups. Ages 10 years upwards.
Work experience: Supported work experience placements, including training, practical learning, leadership and opportunity for completing a creative award.
Youth Ambassador Scheme: For young people ages 11-25 with multiple creative, learning and leadership opportunities.
Youth Creative Social Action: Ongoing creative projects available, exploring ‘social justice’ issues and led by the young people and community.

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.

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.

Hideaway is a grassroots community youth organisation based in Moss Side, Manchester, established in 1965. We provide free, open-access youth work, creating welcoming spaces where young people can build trusted relationships, develop skills, grow in confidence and explore opportunities. Through youth work, sports, creative activities, outreach, mentoring and employability programmes, we work alongside young people to support positive choices, strengthen community connections and help them shape their futures. Our approach is relationship-based, inclusive and rooted in our belief:
“Believing in You to Believe in Yourself.”