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Moss Side is a diverse neighbourhood, two miles south of Manchester's city centre. The area is home to Manchester's oldest youth centre - The Hideaway Youth Project - with so many youth centres dropping off the map across the country, I spent six months with the youth workers and young people at Hideaway to learn how they have been able to make a difference to the lives of generations of young people in the Moss Side community. Produced, directed and edited by Charlie Fyfe-Williams Mixed and ...
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Melvyn McDonald is one of Hideaway's longest-serving Youth Workers. He started working at the project at just 17. In the fallout of austerity in the UK, Melvyn has had a frontline view of the effects the cuts have had on Hideaway and other Manchester youth programmes. Produced, directed and edited by Charlie Fyfe-Williams Mixed and Mastered by Seth…
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Irvine Williams is the Youth Work Manager at Hideaway. Like a lot of the staff, he came to Hideaway as a young man, started volunteering at the project before becoming a full-time youth worker. From Hideaway, he’s seen Moss Side change over the years, from the riots in 1981 to the so-called ‘Gunchester’ era of the nineties to the strong community t…
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The Hideaway Youth Project is Manchester’s oldest youth centre. It turned 54 this year and has supported generations of families in the Moss Side community. Most of the youth workers attended Hideaway as young people and the cycle continues as their leadership programme nurtures and invests in future leaders of the community. Hideaway relies on lot…
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Moss Side is a diverse neighbourhood, two miles south of Manchester's city centre. Akemia has been a youth worker in Moss Side for nearly twenty years. Demi and Jayvon are in their twenties and austerity kicked in right in the middle of their time spent attending youth centres in Moss Side. Of the five centres that were open in the South Manchester…
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