Evaluation and reflections on a youth focussed Participatory Budgeting Programme in Manchester.

Hope for Cheetham is a community-led, long-term project with a bold vision to create a Cheetham Hill where children and young people growing up there “are empowered and supported by the entire community and system to achieve their hopes and ambitions.”  

Led by the locally based Hope for Cheetham steering group, and with youth empowerment at front and centre of their mission, over £200k of money from the Youth Endowment Fund and #iwill was granted to projects in Cheetham Hill, in North Manchester, in February 2025. The work is supported by Young Manchester, and they asked Shared Future to help inform the design of the process and produce a mini-evaluation and reflections report.

The grant fund was called Choose for Cheetham, and was launched in Autumn 2024. It was decided by the steering group through a co-design process that both young people in the area AND the twenty-one organisations seeking to support them would be able to have a say. More information on the project and its video is on our website at this link.