In recent months, several cared-for young people from Bury have been honing their cooking skills! This will help to ensure our young people are eating well and maintaining healthy lifestyles. It will also help them to manage their budgets more effectively. #Cooking #Bowling #YoungPeopleCan

✨Our Oldham care experienced group welcomed Hannah from the local allotments to one of their sessions who taught them how to make marrow and ginger jam! The young people worked together to make the jam, and helped Hannah to pour them into jars - learning valuable cooking skills! 🍳

🎮 Several care leavers in Oldham had a fun and interactive afternoon with Adaptive Gaming CIC, who set up a variety of different games for our young people to enjoy! The group learned important lessons on online safety and developed their teamworking skills. A huge thank you to Adaptive Gaming! 🎉

🎙️ Two weeks ago, we took three young people from our Salford care-experienced group to Cornwall to meet Carefree Cornwall, a youth organisation that works with young people in Cornwall who are in and leaving care. [1/4]

🥧 Our young people had a great day taking part in pie making workshops at The Black Friar in Salford! They had lots of fun learning skills from a top chef! One young person said "I wish I could have made 10 of those pies. I've been thinking about them all week".

Take a look at these great photos from Slide Social, in collaboration with Projekts MCR! The group brings disabled and neurodivergent young people together in a safe environment, helping them to build resilience and make new friends 🛹 Big thank you to ProjektsMCR 🌟

🏠 GMYN is looking for a new home. Can you help us find one? We’re looking for space within Manchester City Centre or the immediate surroundings (such as Hulme, Ardwick, Ancoats or Greengate.) [1/3]

⏲️ In preparation for our Feast with Eat Well MCR and Where The Light Gets in, our young people attended a butchery workshop. The young people got shown how butchers prepare meat and learned about food safety and hygiene. [1/3]

🍞 Our Beeing Together group had a bread making workshop with Companio bakery in preparation for our feast with Eat Well Manchester and Where the Light Gets In! The young people got to learn how to grind wheat into flour, as well as knead and shape the dough into bread tins. [1/3]

We'd like to say a huge thank you to Mark, Justin and the whole team at Digital Next for their incredibly generous £5,000 donation. Their support will make a real and lasting difference to the lives of young people across Greater Manchester by creating vital opportunities for them to gain new skills

It was great to have James from GMI Construction join us at our networking breakfast for employers helping young people into work! He gave a fantastic talk about how GMI Construction have supported young people to access to careers in the construction industry through paid work experience placements

Our Big Give Christmas Campaign is now live! This week, we're aiming to raise £20,000 to help care-experienced, disabled and neurodivergent young people take their first steps in the world of work. Here's the best bit... every donation will be DOUBLED! Visit our campaign using the link in our bio

Our fourth and final award for Care Leaver's Month is our Positive Impact Award, celebrating the incredible ways our young people help those around them 🌟🏆 We are so proud of what care leavers achieve today and every day, and we’ve loved highlighting their fantastic accomplishments this month

🚨Exciting announcement! MCR Social’s Noise Lab have created their own band called Kabbage, who will be performing their first ever gig at Habitat Studios on Thursday 27th November! 🎸 (1/3)

Our Beeing Together group had an action-packed summer, featuring a wide range of activities, including… 🧺 Picnic and walk at Dunham Massey 🔨Construction day with VINCI in Bury 🚲 Canal bike ride with Venture Out ❄️ Snow Camp at Chill Factor & more!

🛹 It has been great to see our Slide Social club back up and running since the start of October! The club is part of our MCR Social programme, and is in collaboration with Projekts MCR. The sessions brings young people together and is a fun, safe and relaxed environment. (1/3)

For the third week of Care Leaver's Month, we're celebrating several resilient and determined young people who are making positive steps towards their long-term career goals! These young people have been chosen for their persistence and tenacity overcoming the barriers that many care leavers face 💙

To celebrate Care Leavers Month, GMYN is hosting a care leavers football tournament on Thursday 20th November at the Bolton Wanderers Arena! If you’d like to come along, please contact Chloe at [email protected]. Thank you to Bolton Wanderers FC and GMI Construction for making it possible!

🎙️ Did you catch our young people on BBC Radio Manchester? Three young people spoke to reporter Kevin Fitzpatrick about how they’re enjoying our new work readiness pilot, Level Up, and why the programme is important for them.

🚣 Our Bolton care-leavers took part in kayaking over the summer with Water Adventure Centre (WAC) in Ashton! For some, it was their first time on the water and they enjoyed the freedom of paddling up and down the canals of Ashton! 🌊 Big thanks to the WAC in Ashton for facilitating the session!

For the second week of Care Leaver's Month, we're celebrating our particularly creative young people! We have three winners of the GMYN Creativity Award who have been chosen for their confidence to explore their creative side through art, photography, music, theatre and creative writing!

Big thank you to Martin from RSA Insurance for joining us at our networking breakfast for employers helping young people into work! 🌟 Want to learn how your business can benefit from offering work placements? Please click the link in our bio and fill out our expression of interest form!

We’re delighted to announce GMYN has been selected as a cause for this year’s Co-op Local Community Fund! Now you can make a difference simply by being a Member and choosing GMYN as your chosen cause. Join today using our unique link: 🔗 coopapp.onelink.me/ftOk/25jut2yr

To mark Care Leavers Month, we’re proud to announce the winners of our Community and Volunteering Award. These young people have been doing exceptional work in their local communities through volunteering and social action projects ❤️🙌

✨ This Care Leavers Month, we’re shining a light on our incredible care leavers! Over the summer, our Bolton care leavers took a trip to Blackpool. 🌊 For some it was their first time in Blackpool, but they all had a fun day paddling in sea and riding on the dodgems! 🎢

What a fantastic weekend we had at the Didsbury Beer Festival! A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who made it such a success. Your support means the world and will have a lasting impact on young people across Greater Manchester who need our help ❤️

🎉 GMYN is proud to celebrate Care Leavers Month this November! The theme for this year is “Rising as Me: Overcoming challenges, transforming, and finding your identity”. We’ll be spotlighting some incredible individuals from our care leaver programmes on our social channels once a week. 🌟

🪵 Young people from our Bolton Care Leavers programme took part in a DIY session at Beechcroft Allotments! The session was part of our Multiply Programme, helping young people aged 17-19 improve their mathematics skills! 📸 Photography by Bethan Kelly

GMYN is thrilled to be returning as a charity partner at the Didsbury Beer Festival for the second year running! Swing by and guess the weight of our keg for your chance to win a full case of Sonoma Pale Ale, generously donated by Track Brewery. Tickets available now at didsburybeerfestival.org.uk.

Last month, the Greater Manchester Neurodivergent VCSE Collective hosted an inspiring event, bringing together those who are working to improve support for neurodivergent young people. Hannah, a young person from our Youth Voice Group, delivered a fantastic speech on her lived experience of ADHD. 🙌

⛱️ Back in August, our cared for young people from Oldham, Tameside and Manchester visited the seaside at Prestatyn beach in North Wales! For many of the group it was their first time going to the beach, so they didn’t let the overcast conditions stop them from having a fun time!

🐯 Over the summer, our cared-for young people from Oldham, Tameside and Manchester visited Ponderosa Zoo in West Yorkshire. When the group arrived, they headed straight for the air bouncers, and had so much fun they almost forgot they had animals to see!

At the start of summer our Bolton care leavers took part in an exciting paddle boarding session with Wave Adventure! 🌊 One young person said “This has been the best day out I’ve had in ages”! 🚣 📸 Video by Bethan Kelly

🌿 In August, our Bolton care leavers volunteered at the Red Lane Growing Project, where they gathered seeds, de-weeded flower beds, and watered polytunnels and vegetables. Young people loved trying the fresh produce! 🌞 Thank you to the Red Lane Growing Project in Bolton for hosting these sessions

🎉 Join us in celebrating the creation of our zine ‘Calm down, inside our ADHD minds - a GMYN Youth Voice Project.’ Our Youth Group worked alongside artist Fig Hous to create a small magazine that represents what it’s like for young people to have ADHD through their own words and drawings. 🎨

🎉 September brought our Tameside programme for cared-for young people to a close. To mark the end of the programme, Anna organised a party at 4C Community Centre in Ashton, celebrating the programmes young people and reminiscing about their favourite moments! 🔗 Read more via the link in our bio.

🎊 ADHD Awareness Month is here! This October, we’re celebrating the theme: "The Many Faces of ADHD". Around 168,000 adults and children in Greater Manchester have ADHD. At GMYN, our ADHD Youth Voice Group supports 13–25-year-olds with lived experience of ADHD, whether diagnosed or not. 🌟

🧑🍳 This summer, cared-for young people aged 10-16 from Bury took part in cooking sessions where they learned how to food shop, prepare meals, use kitchen utensils safely and work as a team! Thank you to Tesco for funding these life changing sessions! 📸 Bethan Kelly

Could YOU be the next GMYN Westwood Cup champions? 📅 Thursday 13th November 🕑 2pm – 5pm (followed by a prize-giving celebration) 📍 GOALS Manchester, 3 Irish Town Way, M8 0AE Spaces are limited to just 16 teams – don’t miss your shot at glory! 👉 Email [email protected] to register today!

✨ We’re excited to announce that GMYN is a charity partner of Didsbury Beer Festival for a second year! Last year they donated an incredible £5,100 to GMYN! 🎉 Come and show your support from 30/10 to 01/11! Event is 18+. Please drink responsibly. Image: Didsbury Beer festival

🌞 Over the school holidays, cared-for young people aged 10-16 from Oldham took part in a summer full of fun learning! From climbing adventures at Summit Up Oldham and making cheesecakes and chocolate rice crispies at Mahdlo, to discovering where their fruit and veg comes from with Localfoodfirst!

📢 Calling all care-experienced young parents! Join us for When We Are Seen – Empowering Care Experienced Young People as Parents. On Wednesday 15th October, we’re hosting an afternoon of conversation, Q&A's, interactive exhibits and peer support! 🌟 Book your *free* ticket via the link in our bio.

🙌 Big thank you to Chris from Westwood Recruitment for speaking at our networking breakfast for employers helping young people into work! If you’d like to hear about how your business can benefit from offering work placements, click the link in our bio and fill out our expression of interest form.

We are proud to celebrate our partnership with @NBrownGroup, whose crucial support has helped GMYN provide life-changing opportunities to young people in our communities who need them most ✨ Take a look at the amazing ways N Brown helped us level up ⬆️

⚽️ In August, care leavers from Oldham played against care leavers from Bolton in a friendly football match! We’d also like to say a big thank you to Big Yellow Storage Their generous support means we can keep all our GMYN equipment for programmes, in a space that’s helpful for us. 📸 Bethan Kelly

Over the summer holidays, our Oldham, Tameside and Manchester care experienced young people came together for a joint hike trip to explore to B29 plane crash site in the Peak District. 🥾 One young person said ‘I am so proud of my legs for bringing me this far … I’ve had so much fun today!' 🌟

A heartfelt thank you to Westwood Recruitment for their outstanding commitment to young people in Greater Manchester 🤝 Their generosity has been instrumental for in the success of several recent initiatives at GMYN. Here’s a round-up of their game-changing support over the last two years… ✨

⚽️🏀 Join our new basketball and football clubs for disabled or neurodivergent 14 -17 year olds from the Manchester City Council area! To get registered, a supporting adult, such as a parent, carer or social worker, needs to fill out the online form linked in our bio.

A big thank you to those who joined our networking breakfast last month ☕🥐 It was exciting to see so many people sharing their insights and enthusiasm for supporting young people into employment. 🔗 Are you ready to make a difference? Find out more or register your interest via the link in our bio.

🚨 This weekend is your last chance to see our ‘Leaving an Impression X Greater Manchester Youth Network’ exhibition at Manchester Cathedral! ⭐️ There is also artwork from some of our previous projects, such as the Hear My Voice comic book and our Beeing Together zine! 📸 Photos by Bethan Kelly