We’re hiring – 2 roles

Kate Parsons | 02 Dec 2025

Location: Manchester

Salary: £28,000 – £30,000 (pro-rata, dependent on experience)

Part-time: 28 hours per week (0.8% FTE)

Contract: Fixed term for 24 months.

Deadline: 5pm, Monday 12th January 2026

CLASS is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as part of an alliance focused on #CommunityPoweredPolitics and amplifying the voices and experiences of women experiencing intersecting inequalities, we particularly encourage applications from women from global majority backgrounds and women with disabilities who are currently underrepresented in our workforce.

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Independent Living Worker – Ageing Well in Place

Location: Manchester

Salary: £28,000 – £30,000 (per annum and pro-rata, dependent on experience)

Hours: Full-time

Contract: Fixed term for 15 months (with expectation of continuation subject to funding)

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 6th February 2026

Interviews: 26-27 February 2026

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Hulme, Manchester, Miles Platting, Social housing, Wythenshawe

Savers uniting from Middlesbrough to Wythenshawe!

Kate Parsons | 20 Oct 2025

Community Savers leaders had another productive quarterly network meeting on Thursday and were delighted to welcome Rama, Fatima, and Mabintou from Middlesbrough!

Rama is coordinator for a CIO called Creative Minds Middlesbrough and is working with local women to learn from the Community Savers approach and set up their own savings group.

Leadership development, sharing learning and peer support are fundamental pillars of the Community Savers methodology and here Lina – a leader form Dandelion Savers and Wythenshawe Central Network shares on what Quarterly Network meetings are all about:

After a jam-packed morning full of Community Savers business affiliated savings groups from Brinnington, Miles Platting, Hulme and Wythenshawe shared their experiences of setting up and running savings clubs with our Middlesbrough guests. Bridget from MIles Platting Savers reflects on what she was able to share here:

Savings clubs are the building blocks of the Community SAvers approach and contribute significant impacts to financial and social inclusion and wellbeing. For example, our 2024 members survey revealed that:

· 85% of members feel more positive about life

· 81% feel less isolated

· 96% feel more community connection

· 96% saw improved mental health

Community Savers is about much more than saving money however. Through the savings clubs, local residents are able to come together to discuss local issues and soon begin developing their own local initiatives to address gaps and challenges.

Over time, the clubs become organising hubs for a wider network of groups and projects forming neighbourhood networks able to take collective action to reduce inequality and promote a better future for their local area.

For now though, Fathima, Rama and Mabintou will be focusing on getting the hang of getting their new savings club off the ground with support from a shared partner of Community Savers and Creative Minds Middlesbrough – Turn2us https://www.turn2us.org.uk/

Rama visiting from Middlesbrough talking about her experience of attending a Community Saver network meeting.

Fatima from Middlesbrough reflecting on the learning from the day.

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Community Savers, Hulme, Miles Platting, Mums Mart, Wythenshawe

Update on MPCAN’s Miles Platting Wildlife Corridor

Darren | 23 Apr 2024

Following the Climate Action group’s success in being awarded the Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund, plans for the Miles Platting Wildlife Corridor are now well underway. Project lead Suzanne Walton from Groundwork alongside Dr Jenna Ashton from the University of Manchester have been carrying out initial consultations with local residents around 4 key sites in the area: Victoria Mill Park, Bollington Road Green, Holland Street Community Garden and Ridgway Street Community Garden.

*Decorating bird boxes at Victoria Mill Park*

*Making apple feeders and winter crafts at Holland Street Community Gardens*

iNaturalist pages for each of the four sites have now been set up, which allows any nature lovers and passersby to record their wildlife sightings and observations:

Victoria Mill Park: https://uk.inaturalist.org/projects/victoria-mill-park

Bollington Road Green: https://uk.inaturalist.org/projects/bollington-road-green

Holland Street Community Gardens: https://uk.inaturalist.org/projects/holland-street-community-garden

Ridgway Street Community Gardens: https://uk.inaturalist.org/projects/ridgway-street-community-garden

If you ever find yourself in and around these spaces, follow the iNaturalist links above to record your encounters and learn more about the different kinds of wildlife you find!

Following discussions with residents around these sites and additional green spaces, designs to enhance and improve biodiversity are being drawn up (diagrams above) to bring in new trees, wildflowers, and hedges around Miles Platting. Ten new trees were planted at Bollington Road Green in early March including two different types of birch.

Additional to the Wildlife Corridor Project, MPCAN Climate Action has also received funding through City of Trees for 30 new trees all along Ridgway Street which were planted just a couple weeks ago!

If you are a local resident of Miles Platting, Ancoats or Collyhurst and are interested in MPCAN’s Climate Action group, please email milesplattingcommunitynetwork@gmail.com to find out more and get involved!