Social Responsibility

Each year since 1987, October is celebrated as Black History Month (BHM) in the UK.

Manchester Day of Action is a global volunteer activism programme which inspires alumni worldwide to join together and support a local cause.

University of Manchester students volunteering at the Mentoring Charity “ReachOut” have given a staggering amount of their free time this academic year despite some projects finishing slightly earlier than expected due to COVID 19 and lockdown.

The Manchester Access Programme is the University’s flagship widening participation scheme.

The University’s first virtual Enterprise School recently named the winner of its newly launched entrepreneurship programme.

In August our Environmental Sustainability Team hosted a post-screening discussion of The Story of Plastic film, followed by a Q&A on the University’s commitment to eliminating avoidable single-use plastics by 2022.

Alliance Manchester Business School will host a new institute funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to make the UK economy more productive.

We hope this finds you well.

Manchester Histories is taking its festival digital this year, with the announcement of its first ever DigiFest.

Academic clinicians from the University’s Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health have been working on hospital wards during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to support the NHS and put their expertise to use where it could have the most impact.