Social Responsibility

The School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI) is a four year catalyst scheme which has been running with support from the University of Manchester and Research Councils UK since 2013.

Children from 20 schools across Greater Manchester have joined forces with engineers from Siemens, music experts from the Hallé Orchestra and academics from The University of Manchester to create musical robots for the University’s ‘robot orchestra’ project.

On Friday 20 May, more than a dozen teams from across the University took part in Business in the Community’s (BiTC) Give & Gain Day, the global day of employee volunteering.

Give It Don’t Bin It is an annual campaign that encourages all Manchester students leaving the city in the summer to donate their unwanted items to charity and recycle as much as they can.

The Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR) and Salford Research and Development at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust have been working with St Ambrose Barlow RC High School to bring art to the world of inflammation science and research.

Manchester Town City Hall was packed full of thousands of visitors when they dropped in on The Brain Box event on Sunday 19 June, as part of Manchester Day.

Monday 20 June saw the opening of the Ramadan Tent Project on the University campus.

Manchester Town Hall will become the city’s largest laboratory on Sunday 19 June as scientists from across the city join forces for Manchester Day’s Brain Box attraction.

The University has won a national prize for The Works, our ground-breaking employment and skills initiative.

The University’s School Governor Initiative (UMSGI), which supports staff to take up school governor positions in local schools and colleges, has been honoured with the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK