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Rochdale
Careers

Young Leaders Careers Programme

Get ready to discover your strengths, build confidence and explore where your future could take you! Young Leaders is a fun, six-week programme packed with interactive challenges, team activities and inspiring sessions with real employers. You’ll build confidence and resilience, explore careers, college and apprenticeships, and develop practical skills including CV writing and interview preparation. It’s all about trying new things, meeting new people, believing in yourself and discovering the opportunities that could shape your future.

Bolton
Boxing

New Bury Boxing Club

New Bury Boxing CIC is a community focused boxing club providing affordable, inclusive opportunities for children, young people and adults. Based at New Bury Community Centre, we use boxing to improve fitness, confidence, discipline and wellbeing while creating a safe space for our community. Alongside regular boxing sessions, we deliver youth activities, family programmes and community projects, helping people build skills, friendships and positive connections.

Oldham
Youth Club

Fitton Hill Junior Youth Club

Run by trained volunteers every Friday evening, Fitton Hill Junior Youth Club provides a fun, safe environment offering sports, crafts, games, socialisation, and refreshments. We also collaborate with other local organisations to provide exciting activities like sports, gardening, environmental projects, and forest skills.

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.

Bolton
Sport

Bolton Wanderers in the Community

Free, open-access community football sessions in the heart of New Bury. Come to make friends, develop your skills, take part in matches and tournaments, and access further activities such as workshops, trips and more.

Wednesdays 4pm-5pm: ages 8-12
Fridays 5pm-6.30pm: ages 12-18

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
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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Try new experiences, learn practical skills and challenge yourself to do something different.

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Meet new people, make lifelong friends and be part of something greater.

Need support?

If you’re involved in, or have been affected by violence, you can speak to a trusted adult or report it anonymously.

Remember, if you are in danger or need immediate help, you should phone 999.

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