Age UK Trafford is an independent local charity. It has been working in the local community to help older people for 50 years. It has 25 dedicated staff and over 50 volunteers helping it to deliver services and activities for older people in Trafford. 

All In One Learning Centre is a Community Interest Company ( CIC ) that aims to help and support difficult-to-engage people in the community concerning education, employment, and overall wellbeing (professional and individual development).

It aims to create a positive educational environment and opportunities that encourage growth, responsibility, and productivity.

The A World UK CIC is a non-profit organisation supporting the autistic community across the North of England.

Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition, with the A World supportsing individuals of all ages. Its aim is to help and support the Autistic Community through providing a variety of services; it currently offer funded holidays, free therapeutic horse-riding sessions, and many more inclusive events which are held throughout the year.

The A World aims to be an advocate for Autism and raise awareness within the community, by promoting acceptance and inclusion. It is continuously expanding its community stores, ultimately allowing it to provide support to more areas across the North of England.

Barnabus is a Christian homeless charity based in Manchester. It offers a lifeline to people experiencing homelessness each week, many of whom have severe addictions or mental health issues. It supports their physical, emotional and spiritual needs and does all it can to help them get back into mainstream society.

Bike the UK for MS aims to make a positive impact in the lives of everyone living with multiple sclerosis. Its mission is to raise awareness in communities across the UK and connect people with the cause via cross country bicycle rides that raise funds to address the challenges of those affected by multiple sclerosis and help fund research for a cure.

Citizens Advice Wigan Borough is a local, independent charity providing free, confidential, impartial advice for residents in Wigan, Leigh and Makerfield. 

Conversation Over Borders offers free online English classes, mental health and digital access support to refugees and asylum seekers across the UK. Its work started during the first COVID-19 lockdown in order to bring people together in a time of isolation.

Creative Support's mission is to promote the independence, inclusion and wellbeing of people with support needs. It does this by working with the people it supports, their families and partner agencies to develop and deliver high quality services that meet individual needs and aspirations in a person-centred way. Creative Support alsoa aim to provide added value to its purchasers and to contribute to communities by using our resources in efficient, flexible and creative ways.

Heart & Parcel brings people together through cooking, making, sharing, eating, celebrating food and developing English language skills. 

Independent Choices Greater Manchester supports, advises and works with victims of domestic abuse and violence in Greater Manchester. It provides support for victims and survivors of domestic violence and abuse for people aged 16 or over and their families. It also advances public and professional education and understanding of the issues of domestic abuse/violence throughout the United Kingdom.

The Justice Hub, based within the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester enable students explore various arms of the law to make real change in their community. It has a Free Legal Advice service, in which students, supervised by University staff and volunteer lawyers, offer advice to the general public.

Ladybarn Community Hub is a local community centre in the heart of Ladybarn serving the communities of Fallowowfield and Withington, including running hosting groups and clubs for older people.

Medaille Trust supports and empowers survivors of modern slavery, trafficking and exploitation. It does this in a number of ways, from offering safe accommodation, to offering support both in its safehouses and out in the community on its Moving on Projects. Medille Trust's work also includes advocacy and awareness raising in the UK as well as an entrepreneurship academy in Albania, which provides meaningful alternatives to those who may otherwise be at risk of exploitation. All its work embodies a commitment to personalised support, recognising the dignity and agency of its service users and empowering them on a path to a life that is free from slavery and exploitation.

Noah's A.R.T is a family-run, community-based, not-for-profit social enterprise. It utilises the benefits of the human-animal bond to improve mental health and wellbeing in Greater Manchester through a range of animal-assisted therapy services

Oxfam is a global movement of people who won’t live with the injustice of poverty. Together it saves and rebuild lives in disasters. It helps people build better lives for themselves. Oxfam speaks out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change. And it won’t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty.

Pankhurst Trust (Incorporating Manchester Women's Aid) has a two-fold mission that reflects the charitable objects central to both organisations: to promote the equality of women, and to promote the benefit of women, suffering, or at risk of, domestic abuse, and their dependants.

Based in Manchester and Gloucestershire, Purple Heart Wishes is a charity that grants wishes for people diagnosed with a terminal illness in their early adult life. It gives these people the opportunity to experience something they have always wanted to do, by themselves or with family and friends. Allowing them the chance to fulfil a dream of a lifetime and helping them to build fantastic memories of their experience no matter how big or small.

Rebuild with Hope was established in 2021 to mentor and support ex-offenders post release by providing employment opportunities and wrap around support making a transition back to their communities as smooth as possible. Although there are a number of employers willing to work with ex-offenders on release, the charity has found through its experience of working with this group that employment is not always suitable or sustainable, leaving many individuals feeling that the progression and journey they have been on in custody amounts to very little once back in the community.

The Salvation Army is a worldwide Christian church and registered charity, which has been fighting against social inequality and transforming lives for over 150 years. It expresses its faith through charitable action by working at the heart of communities across the UK and Ireland. It has 650 churches and community centres where it offers friendship, practical help and support to some of the most disadvantaged people in our communities.

Motivated by its Christian faith, the Salvation Army offers practical support and services to all who need them, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation. Its work includes:

• Homelessness
• Modern slavery
• Poverty
• Addiction
• Campaigning and social policy
• Older people
• Community - debt advice, unemployment, isolation.

The Salvation Army - Manchester Central is close to the University Place.

Shout is the UK's first and only free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging service for anyone who is struggling to cope. It has taken more than 2.5 million conversations with people who are sad, worried, lonely or suicidal and who need urgent, in-the-moment support.

As a digital service, Shout became vital during Covid-19, as one of the few mental health services able to operate as normal at this time. It has seen the need for its support remain high through the UK's cost of living crisis.

Shout is powered by the charity Mental Health Innovations, which also powers The Mix, a service providing free, anonymous online advice about the important issues in young people’s lives.

This project focuses on connecting with women and children staying in the shelter through entertaining and creative activities. It is a way to provide support to those people during a difficult time in their life. 

want to deliver the best possible quality of support to people so they are heard, respected, safe and in control of their own life.

Student Angels is an award winning project, organised by the Students’ Union in collaboration with Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Police. It is a night-time street safety initiative, which involves teams of trained student volunteer leaders and support volunteers heading out into the University of Manchester and Oxford Rd area at peak night times over the weekend to support the student community in a variety of ways.