Greater Manchester Youth Network

Who we are

For many young people, the transition to adulthood isn’t easy. In the UK, one third of young people are lonely, half feel unready for work and half feel like they don’t belong to their community.

At GMYN, our vision is #YoungPeopleCan and we help young people in Greater Manchester overcome this. We deliver a range of development programmes and drop-in activities to help young people transition to adulthood feeling skilled, supported and positive.

Founded in 2007 by our Chief Executive, Alex Fairweather, we have grown from a single volunteering project to a registered charity and have helped over 10,000 young people.
 

Joining #TeamGMYN: Our Offer

At GMYN, we strive to be inclusive. We are regularly reviewing our practices to create a welcoming and supportive environment and encourage suggestions and feedback from staff to improve our offer.

Annual Leave: All staff receive 25 days of annual leave in addtional to the public bank holidays, pro rata for completed hours worked. This offer rises after three years employment with an extra day each year (capped at 30 days). We also provide additional "Gift Days" during Christmas when the office is closed.

Happy birthday: GMYN allows all employees to take a day off from work to celebrate their birthday.

Wellbeing Days: Staff also benefit from five annual wellbeing days as part of their holiday allowance. Wellbeing days are ‘no-questions-asked’ days of annual leave, to be taken on the day they are needed, to allow you time away to alleviate stress and manage your mental wellbeing.

Flexible Working: We operate flexible working hours and working from home policies to allow you to fit your personal commitments around your work.

Remuneration: We are a living wage employer, setting salaries in line with NJC scales and reviewing annually.

Pension: We offer an 8% pension scheme with 3% employer contributions.

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): Staff have access to a 24/7 service offering a wide range of support, including life support, legal information, bereavement support, medical information, CBT online and much more.

Sage Employee Benefits Programme: GMYN offers staff a benefits package through Sage. There are various benefits on offer through this scheme, which include the following:

• Access to an online GP. This can include getting prescriptions.
• Health advice. This includes numerous articles on various health related matters.
• Discounts on gym membership at Health Clubs.
• Cinema savings, shopping discounts and holidays. Discounts available through a variety of retailers.

Volunteering/Development hour: GMYN allows all staff members the opportunity to take one hour out of their working week to either volunteer or engage in a development hour. This hour is paid as normal. The development hour can consist of anything that increases their knowledge about an aspect of their role or that is related to the work of GMYN.

Social Value: GMYN provides itself on our approach to social value and our impact on our local and wider environment. We are always looking for ways to improve and actively engage our team to come up with new ideas to improve our environmental impact.

Cycle to Work Scheme: GMYN provides the The Cycle to Work scheme, supporting staff to buy a bike, with the cost of the equipment repaid by the employee through salary sacrifice.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

GMYN aims to create an inclusive welcoming environment for young people and all those who work or volunteer at GMYN or wish to join #TeamGMYN. Whilst our staff are diverse in many ways, we recognise we are not fully representative of the communities that we serve, and we want to change this.

GMYN is ambitious about diversity, equity and inclusion and wants to improve. If you’ve got the right skills and experiences, we want to hear from you. We actively encourage applications from people of colour, people from working class backgrounds, disabled and neurodiverse people, and/or people who have relevant lived experience of the challenges we help young people to tackle. All applications are welcomed and each will be assessed on its own merit.