Youth provision at Moss Side Powerhouse

Better Steps is a film created in partnership with Merosworld, GM VRU and Street Doctors. The community led film was driven by Kelly Brown, the mother who tragically lost her son Rhamero West to knife crime. The film focuses on sharing the basic but vital information needed to stop bleeding in a knife crime victim.

We are proud to continue our young people’s drama and creative offer in our base. This year we have grown our juniors youth drama club on Mondays, and developed excellent partnerships with large theatre and performing arts organisations in Manchester. We have seen regular attendance at capacity for our juniors group. We have formally partnered for 2023 with the Royal Exchange, leading to workshops for our young people, a young person getting onto their youth advisory board, free theatre tickets, free tours and the potential to collaborate on their autumn shows. We partnered with HOME over August 2022, leading to HOME delivering a workshop on bannermaking with a group at our Holiday Activity Fund creative play scheme, and providing the group with a full day of joyful, interactive fun at their building, where the young people got to explore the theatre, costumes, cinema and art gallery. We also took part in Manchester Day Parade!

Additionally we have started a regular theatre drop-in in partnership with City in the Community and Wythenshawe Forum, which takes place every Saturday evening.