Community groups

  • Manchester Community Central

    These pages are to support local charities, community groups, voluntary organisations and social enterprises on issues relating to covid19 / coronavirus.  Manchester Community Central will be sending out regular bulletins with information and updates as more is posted.

    Phone
    0333 321 3021

  • Feed My City

    Feed My City believe are a small group of volunteers who have come together to help feed people, who are need of a hot meal. This may include people in financial difficulty, in work poverty, homeless or anyone about to come homeless.

    Phone
    0300 365 3101

    Website
    www.feedmycity.org

  • Didsbury Good Neighbours

    Didsbury Good Neighbours is a charity whose aim is to support senior members of the community through a volunteer befriending service and a programme of weekly activities.

    Phone
    07749 504298

    Website
    www.didsburygoodneighbours.org.uk

    Email
    nfo@didsburygoodneighbours.org.uk

  • Parrs Wood Environmental Centre

    Our current activities include:

    Gardening – basic skills and more specialised levels
    Environmental awareness and education
    Watching, recording and encouraging wildlife
    Open days
    Talks

    Website
    www.parrswoodenvironmentalcentre.org.uk

  • Home Community Cafe

    Home is an independent cafe for all the community. A place to meet, make friends, make stuff, eat cake and drink proper coffee. A place where you belong. We are a registered charity, run by volunteer Home-Makers, and we have an ethos that’s as wholesome as the delicious, freshly prepared food that we serve.

    Website
    www.homecommunitycafe.org

    Email
    bookings@homecommunitycafe.org

    Address
    Home Café
    Emmanuel Church
    6 Barlow Moor Road
    Didsbury
    Manchester, M20 6TR

  • Manchester Community Central

    Manchester Community Central provides Manchester’s voluntary, community and social enterprise sector with an extensive range of resources, information and tools designed to meet current and future development needs.

    Phone
    0333 321 3021

    Website
    www.manchestercommunitycentral.org

  • Friends of Didsbury Park

    Like minded people with a common interest in the wellbeing of the park.

    Website
    www.friendsofdidsburypark.com

  • Greater Manchester Youth Network

    Greater Manchester Youth Network is a youth organisation that provides opportunities for young people and supports youth organisations that work within Greater Manchester.

    Phone
    0161 274 3377

  • Friends of Fletcher Moss Park and Parsonage Gardens

    Regular activities include a Volunteering session every Tuesday morning in Parsonage Gardens, a second Volunteering session every Wednesday afternoon at Fletcher Moss Park, and a Health Walk every Monday afternoon from the Visitor Centre at The Croft, Fletcher Moss.

    Website
    www.fletchermossgardens.org.uk

    Email
    info@fletchermossgardens.co.uk

  • Withington Assist

    Assist is a small charity based in Withington that helps support older people living locally. With the help of over 40 volunteers we run a range of regular social activities, exercise classes and day trips as well as giving lifts, befriending, and advocacy.

    Website
    www.withingtonassist.org.uk

  • Meetups in Manchester

    Getting together with real people in real life makes powerful things happen. Side hustles become careers, ideas become movements, and chance encounters become lifelong connections. Meetup brings people together to create thriving communities.

    Website
    www.meetup.com

  • Manchester Community Response

    Manchester Community Response is the Council’s number for support for vulnerable residents. This is also the number to refer to for help with prescription delivery currently being supported by Be Well service and Care Navigation Service. If you live alone, are struggling to make ends meet, are self-isolating or generally in need of advice or support please contact us between 08:30 to 17:30, Monday to Saturday.

    Phone
    0800 234 6123

    Website
    www.secure.manchester.gov.uk

  • Manchester Community Explorers

    Community Explorers is a network that meets on a regular basis in north, central and south Manchester. It is a partnership between Manchester Health and Care Commissioning and Macc, and aims to bring together anyone with an interest in health and wellbeing from across voluntary and community sectors to influence, connect, share knowledge and build relationships.

    Phone
    0161 765 4004

    Email
    val.bayliss-brideaux@nhs.net
    danielle@macc.org.uk