M13 Youth Project is 30 years old this year!

We celebrated 30 years of dynamic youth and play work with children, young people, young dads, friends and colleagues (old and new!) on Saturday 28th June, 2025.

There were fun activities for children and young people, a photographic display of M13 throughout the years (many people who came spotted themselves in the pictures!), a time of sharing stories and, of course, lots of food! Thank you to everyone who came and helped us celebrate. It was a fantastic occasion of great joy and wonderful memories. 

M13 Youth Project works together with young people in their local communities to enrich their lives; through co-creating life-enhancing relationships, conversations, safe places and activities that foster fun, learning, action and transformation.

We are recognised nationally as experts in detached youth work and respected for our quality, longevity, grassroots community commitment and development of participants into practitioners. Young people describe our impact as 'deep', 'massively helpful', 'life-changing', and, on occasion, 'life-saving'.

We work with over 600 children and young people a year in Ardwick and Hulme, and city-wide through our Young Dads’ Project, through various creative and dynamic core youth work and projects, chosen by, and that has meaning for, the young people involved. Our empathic approach is informed by the principles and practices of youth work, informal education and trauma-informed practice, underpinned by our open and inclusive Christian value base that emphasises love and justice. We believe all young people deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and that each young person can love, think, create, reflect, enjoy, achieve and make a positive difference to their world.

M13 is a Registered Charity, No 1197730 (from 13th July 2022, formerly Charity No. 1069401), established in January 1995 by Dr Helen Gatenby.