North Manchester Community Partnership

The North Manchester Community Partnership is a unique collaboration of grassroots and larger third-sector groups, housing associations, health services and family services. Our approach is community-led and has shown many benefits to the communities we serve. You can find out more about our service partners in our Partners section.

We are based at the Welcome Centre in Cheetham Hill, but serve eight wards in North Manchester: Cheetham Hill, Crumpsall, Harpurhey, Moston, Charlestown, Collyhurst, Blackley, and Newton Heath. We operate outreach services in partner centres in these areas. The work of North and East Manchester Work Clubs – on which some of the Partnership’s work is based – has helped see us already invited to expand our work into Salford. We’ve received requests from Children’s Centres to work with some of the most in-need users.

The wards we work in are not accidental. According to the Index of Deprivation 2015, all of the wards we work in appear in the top 20% of deprived wards, all scoring highly on two or more identifying markers. These wards are among Manchester's most culturally diverse wards, with Cheetham Hill and Moston seeing approximately 52% of the population hailing from ethnic minority backgrounds. They also have a strong private rental housing market. Wards such as Harpurhey, Newton Heath, Charlestown and Blackley have a majority white working-class background, with much of the housing market controlled by social housing providers. This cultural divergence is just one of the factors that we seek to work with.