Partners
Who do we work with?
Hill Dickinson
Full-service law firm Hill Dickinson has made a two year commitment to support the project. Head of Hill Dickinson's Manchester Office, Geraldine Ryan, says of the law firm's partnership with City in the Community:
"As well as directly supporting CITC’s activity through involvement with and sponsorship of its events and initiatives, we intend to use our position of strength in the Manchester commercial sector to engage the wider regional business community in the campaign. As leading providers of legal advice to, amongst others, the sports, education and health sectors, the Healthy Schools campaign is highly relevant to our business strategy and we are delighted to partner CITC in this excellent project."
G4S
G4S is fully committed to supporting and assisting the communities in which the company operates.
For the last two years, we have been proud to sponsor City in the Community’s Kickz project and play a part in helping the young people of Manchester spend their time constructively. We are also delighted to continue our long standing relationship with the scheme’s partners, Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Police, to help support their objective of impacting positively on the local community.
As a leading provider of security solutions, this type of initiative directly supports our policy of supporting young children through sport. We believe that, by investing in local communities, we are helping prevent the causes of anti-social behaviour and reduce crime, which not only benefits the children involved, but also the staff and visitors we supply our services to.
G4S is a truly global organisation, however the company enjoys a significant and long standing partnership with MCFC locally that dates back to the days at "Maine Road". With over 2,500 staff working within the North West, across many different business sectors, whether you are enjoying a concert at Heaton Park, watching the cricket at LCCC or catching a train to Piccadilly, G4S is there to ensure a safe and secure environment.
As the principal security supplier to Manchester City Council and supporters of the Council's Staff Excellence Awards and the Greater Manchester Police Chief Constables` Excellence Awards for several years, G4S also recognises the excellent work that is done within the Manchester communities.
Manchester Healthy Schools
Manchester Healthy Schools Team have over fifteen years of experience successfully working across health and education to tackle health inequalities and improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people. In October 2011 the team launched a new look Healthy Schools Programme for schools which focuses on four core public health priorities. The team has a key role in Manchester, to implement public health interventions which support schools to:
- improve children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing and to reduce the incidence of bullying
- promote and develop healthy behaviours in order to prevent and reduce the numbers of overweight and obese children and young people
- promote safer choices and reduce the number of young people misusing alcohol and drugs
- improve young people’s sexual health and reduce the incidence of sexual transmitted infections and number of teenage conceptions
Working to improve health outcomes for children, young people and families in the local community, the Healthy Schools Team uses a whole school approach to support schools to become healthier learning environments.
"As well as directly supporting CITC’s activity through involvement with and sponsorship of its events and initiatives, we intend to use our position of strength in the Manchester commercial sector to engage the wider regional business community in the campaign. As leading providers of legal advice to, amongst others, the sports, education and health sectors, the Healthy Schools campaign is highly relevant to our business strategy and we are delighted to partner CITC in this excellent project."
http://www.manchesterhealthyschools.nhs.uk/
Viagogo
As part of the partnership, viagogo will donate £25,000 annually to a charity or initiative, as chosen by City in the Community. CITC as it is known is the he Club’s community arm, founded in 1986, it improves the lives of over 200,000 local children every year through fundraising and programmes such as Football and Sport Development, Disability Sports, Health and Activity, Skills and Enterprise and Community Choesion.
One Education Ltd.
One Education is a specialist provider of education services to schools, offering a unique range of specialist pupil services.
‘We aim to be the best education company in the world and we will do it by putting children first. Working with schools to support the education of children is our privilege.’ (www.oneeducation.co.uk)
The ‘One City Schools’ project is providing a unique and inspiring learning environment for disengaged young people who are experiencing difficulties in mainstream education.
The combination of specialised One Education staff and CITC’s experienced staff has created a productive and effective team aiming to help young people achieve their potential.
http://www.oneeducation.co.uk/
The University of Manchester
At The University of Manchester we have developed a comprehensive and exciting programme of activities for prospective students and their influencers.
This consists of work with primary, secondary and further education students as well as teachers, careers advisers and parents. Our work is informed by the following aims:
- To promote opportunities for progression to higher education generally, wherever that might be.
- To identify and attract talented students to Manchester from all educational backgrounds.
To achieve these aims we aim to provide a suite of professional, interactive and highly imaginative activities that can enthuse and inform learners about the range of opportunities and pathways open to them when considering higher education.
We are mindful of the need for learners to be able to access high-quality information, advice and guidance about higher education.
To this end we also work closely with teachers, careers advisers and parents on a range of activities.
One of the ways in which we are working with primary learners in the local area is in partnership the City in the Community Team and their Learning Through Football programme.
This is an educational project aimed at Year 5 & 6 pupils (age 10 & 11), the content of the project aims to use MCFC as a learning tool to engage young people in National Curriculum subjects – literacy, numeracy, geography, ICT, science, and modern foreign language.
This year student volunteers from The University of Manchester’s Manchester Leadership Programme (MLP) will be joining the CITC staff to deliver these sessions in schools and talk about their experience of being a university student.
This additional input will encourage the pupils to think about their own aspirations for the future and encourage them to think about further and higher education.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/schoolsandcolleges/
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