AIESEC in Manchester is part of AIESEC UK, the world’s largest youth-led organisation to help students unlock their leadership potential through practical, real-world experiences.

Convo Club a student led group, focussed on helping asylum seekers improve their English. It currently works with children, helping them practice English through games and informal classes with external organisations in Manchester.

Direct Access is about empowering homeless women, bringing attention to domestic abuse and food insecurity in Manchester. It aims to raise awareness on these social issues as they are currently prevalent in the society, and wider society.

Volunteers help spread this awareness by dedicating some of their time to cooking and baking in a local women's shelter. They create yummy, healthy and rich meals and serve this to the women at the shelter by working together and having fun. 

Incredible Edible UoM is a volunteering gardening project that primarily addresses the issues of deficit in green spaces and disconnect with nature amongst students in an urban city like Manchester. This project aims to provide a space where students and locals can learn about and explore exciting new sustainable approaches to food production based on soil health, biodiversity and a sound understanding of natural processes.

In providing a platform for these practices, it hopes to encourage critical thinking about the exploitative and unsustainable models of food production made familiar to us through factory farming. The project also hopes to provide opportunities for students to balance their busy urban lives and to reap the widely documented mental health benefits of gardening and reconnecting with green space. 

Manchester Marrow helps to save the lives of people with blood cancer/disorders. It is a student branch of Anthony Nolan charity that organises events to recruit potential lifesavers to the stem cell registry. The group also raises funds to assist Anthony Nolan with all of their amazing work, from treatment research to patient care.

Once a Month is a student-led charity dedicated to combating period poverty by providing essential menstrual products to vulnerable communities across Manchester. Its mission is to ease the financial burden of menstruation for homeless individuals and those in need.

Once a Month holds packing sessions where volunteers assemble care packages containing menstrual products and other personal care items. It works closely with local charities and community partners to distribute these packs to shelters, food banks, and support groups. Its aim is to create lasting change through both practical support and awareness campaigns on menstrual health.

Around one in four children leave primary school unable to read well. Often these children are from disadvantaged backgrounds. As literacy can have a significant impact on a person’s life chances, a lack of literacy skills can contribute to a continuing cycle of disadvantage and lack of opportunity.

This project aims to support primary school children who struggle with reading to become more abled readers, by giving them the opportunity to work with a volunteer throughout the year. Volunteers will be able to build positive relationships and help the children grow in their confidence towards reading.

RooTable is a student led sustainable food initiative with growing space in the form of raised beds and a poly tunnel in the beautiful grounds of Firs Botanical Garden in Fallowfield. Its action groups aim is to grow nutritious and sustainable food that can be donated to local food banks around Greater Manchester. Although it has only been running for just over a year, it has had great success with an abundance of tasty produce making its way to Oldham food bank. RooTable is passionate about connecting with nature and learning more about ways nutritious food can be grown with as least waste as possible.

Student Angels is a volunteering programme and night-time safety initiative run by the Students’ Union and supported by Manchester City Council. Student Angels patrol the Oxford Road Corridor area on Friday and Saturday nights, providing wellbeing support to fellow students and the public, whether that’s giving directions or changing a phone, providing basic first aid or liaising with emergency services, or just being a friendly face on the street. Student Angels supports thousands of people each year and is now at an exciting point, and its always looking for new volunteers.

The Strathclyde Project collaborates with a temporary housing accommodation in Stockport to offer bi-weekly arts and crafts sessions and nutritious meals to residents. We focus on supporting vulnerable families to develop peer relationships and engage in wellbeing activities, and support their physical health by providing them with a nourishing meal.

The Volunteering Outreach In Science and Engineering (VOISE) Society is dedicated to making STEM accessible, exciting, and inclusive. It runs interactive workshops in schools and community groups, with a strong focus on supporting young minds from Widening Participation backgrounds.

Want Not Waste is the first student-run zero waste shop in Manchester. Located right in the Student's Union, Want Not Waste helps bring a plastic-free, sustainable environment to the community in UoM. It sells a range of products, such as dried goods, vegan snacks, cleaning supplies, cosmetics and jewellery, all at reasonable prices and minimal packaging. Want Not Waste also hosts a range of sustainable events like clothes swaps, along with running a Teracycle scheme to promote recycling. Overall, Want Not Waste hopes to make being environmentally friendly more accessible to students and the public of Manchester.

The Willowbank Project operates at the Willowbank shelter in Fallowfield, which provides temporary housing for homeless and refugee families. It runs twice weekly two hour childcare sessions in which a group of volunteer’s host fun and creative activities (e.g. painting, decorating cakes, gardening, watching movies, homework help) for the young children whilst providing necessary respite for their parents.