Community Participation

Background

We are committed to actively encouraging all Manchester residents to engage in sport and physical activities in our leisure facilities.  In this way, we are aiming to not only achieve our own charitable objectives, but also to assist the Manchester Partnership in its wider aim of making Manchester a world class city by 2015.

We aspire to improve the planning and delivery of our services by making them more responsive to the needs and aspirations of Manchester's diverse communities, thereby ensuring that all communities are able to participate in indoor sport and physical activity pursuits of their choice. We have therefore developed a Community Participation Strategy which sets out the aims our strategic approach to developing sport and physical activity programmes.  See the pdf below for a copy of this strategy.

One common theme that runs throughout the Community Participation Strategy is that of partnership work.  We recognise that by working closely with our partners, we can really deliver for our local communities.  Click here for some recent stories about our work in the community, including lots of examples of working in conjunction with our partners. 

New for 2011! The new Active Lifestyles programme from Manchester City Council has now launched. Click here for further details.