The ICZ Community Campus in Media City, Salford, provides a great example in the potential of multi-agency working. Developed as part of the University of Salford’s 50th Anniversary year to build stronger collaborations in four key areas of sport, health and wellbeing, creative and digital and industry and business, the Youth Charter’s Community Campus delivered model for engaging the young people and wider community that reflects the social and cultural heritage of the university and its origins.

The Youth Charter’s Community Campus project was the result of an 8-month consultation of 400 young people commissioned in 2013 by the Community and Cultural Services Division of Manchester City Council to embed the Youth Strategy across Manchester, which highlighted three key issues of access, activity and affordability as a barrier to improving youth participation and physical activity through sport, leisure and recreational activity.