ClickSafe Club is a non-profit edtech organisation empowering children and young people with hands-on coding, robotics, and maker learning experiences. Through a blend of digital skills, engineering crafts, and safe online practices, it equips the next generation to thrive in an ever-evolving world of technology.

Coram Voice is a leading children’s rights organisation. It champions the rights of children. It gets young voices heard in decisions that matter to them and works to improve the lives of children in care, care leavers and others who depend upon the help of the state.

Girlguiding North West England is part of Girlguiding UK, which is the United Kingdom's largest voluntary organisation for girls and young women. Girlguiding UK has around half a million members including about 100,000 trained volunteer adult Leaders and supporters. Girlguiding NW is looking for volunteers to inspire girls by being them.

Heswall Disabled Children’s Holiday Fund host free holidays for disabled children. It is driven by a desire to provide opportunities for those children that might not otherwise be available to them, and to provide respite to their families.

Every year it hosts two camps - one in the North West of England, and the other in the South West of England. At the camps the children benefit from the independence it offers them. For many, this is the only time they spend away from home all year. Each camp is attended by around 35 children (aged 9-15) and 35 volunteer helpers, as it tries to aim for a one-to-one ratio of children to helpers. The programme for each camp includes both on-site activities as well as day trips out, including to the zoo, swimming, bowling, theme parks and local areas like Blackpool or Weston-Super-Mare.

HOBY UK’s mission is to inspire and develop its community of youth and volunteers to a life dedicated to leadership, service, and innovation. It believes all young people have the potential to lead. Its seminars bring young people together across different backgrounds, cultures, and communities.

HOBY helps its delegates discover a personal sense of awareness, confidence, connection, and purpose. Its seminars encourage personal growth and inspire action. Delegates leave HOBY UK with the knowledge and passion needed to make a positive impact on the world around them. Being a part of the HOBY community unlocks a world of opportunities and connections beyond the seminars.

Home-Start works with families in communities right across the UK. Starting in the home, its approach is tailored to what the family need. No judgement, it is just compassionate, confidential help and expert support.

Home-Start Manchester is the local community network of Home-Start trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children through their challenging times. They are there for parents when they need them the most because childhood can’t wait.

IntoUniversity is an educational charity with a strong track record of working with schools, corporate partners and universities to inspire young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve their potential.

Young people from the UK's most disadvantaged postcodes are half as likely to get five 9-4 grades at GCSE, and nearly four times less likely to go to university. This makes it harder for these young people to succeed in a competitive job market. The long-term effects can be felt across society, as communities with low education and employment prospects become increasingly marginalised. By raising aspirations, IntoUniversity aims to tackle this issue, giving these young people a chance at a brighter future.

Just Like Us is the LGBT+ young people’s charity. Growing up LGBT+ is still unacceptably tough. Founded in 2016, Just Like Us works with schools and young people across the UK to change this.

PeaceJam's mission is to create young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities, and the world through the inspiration of Nobel Peace Laureates who can pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody. It's a unique, international educational programme for children and young people aged 5 to 25. The participating Nobel Peace Laureates are directly involved in developing the PeaceJam curriculum and the PeaceJam Foundation itself.

There are 2.4 million adults in England alone – over 7% of the working age population – who can barely read or cannot read at all. Read Easy UK includes nearly 100 volunteer-led groups helping 1500+ adults learn to read in their community. Read Easy Manchester South & West was formed in 2019 to help adults in Wythenshawe to read. In 2022, it expanded its remit to include Trafford.

Rekindle School is a national youth-led education charity, which has a mission is to transform the education system from the ground up, to level the playing field and inspire young people to be bold critical thinkers and changemakers in their communities and beyond. It runs a supplementary school four days a week for 11-14 year olds in the heart of Hulme.

Alongside running sessions for young people centred around Rekindle's 4Cs (creativity, cultural education, critical thinking and changemaking), it supports members of the local community who are struggling with the rising cost of living and/or food insecurity. Rekindle provides essential food and hygiene items, free of charge with no referral process and no embarrassing questions asked.

Safe Families hope for a society where no family feels alone, and every child has a home where they can flourish. It believes the Church is central to this vision. It empowers families, equips churches, and influences systemic change. The Safe Families programme supports isolated, overwhelmed families through local volunteers, helping them build stable homes and strong community connections.

Seashell is a national learning disability charity supporting children and young adults with complex learning difficulties, disabilities, and additional communication needs across the UK. It provides specialist education at its school and special needs college, together with residential and respite care for children and young adults, supported by health, well-being, and therapy services, community facilities, and services.

Stick 'n' Step Charity exists to provide free conductive education sessions, so that we can enable, inspire and support children with cerebral palsy and their families.

The Scouts help change lives by offering 6-25 year-olds fun and challenging activities, unique experiences, everyday adventure and the chance to help others so that they make a positive impact in communities. 

The 23rd Manchester Scout Group and the 465th Manchester Scout Group / North Manchester District are coming to the Fair with the aim of recruiting new volunteers.

The Youth Charter is a UK registered charity and UN accredited non-governmental organisation. It campaigns, advocates and promotes the role and value of sport, art, culture and digital technology in the lives of disaffected young people from disadvantaged communities nationally and internationally. The Youth Charter has a proven track record in the creation and delivery of social and human development programmes with the overall aim of providing young people with an opportunity to develop in life.

Specifically, the Youth Charter tackles educational non-attainment, health inequality, anti-social behaviour and the negative effects of crime, drugs, gang related activity and racism by applying the ethics of sporting and artistic excellence. These can then be translated to provide social and economic benefits of citizenship, rights responsibilities, with improved education, health, citizenship, environment and aspiration for further and higher education, employment and entrepreneurship.