Charity the Mancunian Way

Greater Manchester is unique - if you were born here, ever lived here, were educated here, worked here or just came to party and stayed, you'll know what we mean - you'll love it here!

This is the place that split the atom, was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, the Co-operative Movement, the first programmable computer and vegetarianism!  It's the home of Oasis, Elbow, the Smiths, Hermans Hermits, the Hacienda and the Warehouse Project.  Manchester is a place full of talent and a place where anybody with an idea can change the World!

While years of regeneration have changed the face of modern Manchester and have given us World class sporting venues, a rejuvenated City Centre, the fantastic development of Media City and so much more, at the other end of the scale, in many of our local neighbourhoods, unfortunately little has changed. 

We can easily think of negative images of deriliect buildings, unemployment, crime, violence and welfare dependency.

While there have been many different approaches to tackling poverty and social exclusion, at Forever Manchester we believe that instead of labelling people by their needs, we're going to focus on the skills, talents and assets of local people and communities and encourage real empowerment within our neighbourhoods.

This is charity the Mancunian Way.  Helping local people do extraordinary things together.  Building communities from the inside out and encouraging the true, creative, entrepreneurial spirit of Greater Mancunians to emerge instead of waiting in vain for outside experts to fix things.