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Farewell and Thank you to our Lived Experience Facilitator

Last September, GMYN welcomed a Lived Experience Facilitator to help shape and deliver our training for Greater Manchester Housing Providers, supporting professionals to better understand and respond to the needs of care-experienced young people moving into independent living. Developed alongside care-experienced young people, the training was designed to ensure that lived experience remained at the […]

Launching our Listen Better Mapping Report

After months of conversations, visits, research and analysis, we’re excited to launch Listen Better: Strengthening Care-Experienced Youth Voice Across Greater Manchester – the initial phase of our three-year care-experienced youth voice project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The mapping report explores participation opportunities and structures across Greater Manchester, drawing on evidence from all ten […]

Calm Down: Inside Our ADHD Minds

How young people in Greater Manchester shaped NHS services and created something powerful along the way. From November 2024 to December 2025, GMYN partnered with NHS Greater Manchester to run a youth voice group for young people with lived experience of ADHD. What began as a listening project grew into something much bigger, a movement […]

Beeing Together Launches a New Chapter for Separated Asylum-Seeking Young People

This spring marked an exciting milestone for GMYN’s Beeing Together programme, which has secured a further four years of funding from The National Lottery Community Fund. This will enable us to continue supporting separated asylum-seeking young people aged 15-21 across Greater Manchester, helping them build connections, develop confidence and create positive futures. Separated asylum-seeking young […]

Westwood Recruitment generously funds work readiness programmes for a second year

We’re incredibly proud to share that Westwood Recruitment has renewed its funding for our work readiness programmes for a second year, committing £23,100 across 2026 to support young people who are furthest from employment. Westwood Recruitment’s initial £23,100 came at a critical time. Thanks to their support in 2025, we didn’t just keep the lights […]

Launching our new care-experienced youth voice programme across Greater Manchester

This month, we’re excited to launch a new three-year programme which places the voices of care-experienced young people at its heart. Thanks to funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, this work will focus on making sure young people’s lived experience genuinely shapes decisions about accommodation, transition support and the wider system change across Greater Manchester’s […]

Bringing young people together for our first GM Care Leaver Football Tournament

“I was really nervous at the start of the day as I didn’t really know anyone, but I had the best day, and we made it to the final!” – GMYN Young Person On Thursday 20th of November, GMYN worked in partnership with GMI Construction, Bolton Wanderers in the Community, Bolton College and local authorities […]