The Unity Organising Group was formed in 1994 as one community's response to the increase in racial violence including the murder of Stephen Lawrence. We are a constituted, voluntary organisation that aims to Celebrate Diversity and say NO to racism by:

• Organising a large annual community based UNITY festival and smaller events during the year,
  
• By taking high quality arts and music projects out to communities during the year, primarily with young people who may not otherwise have access to these activities,
  
• By creating accessible, engaging, forums for young people especially, to have a voice about issues that affect their lives
  
• And practical education campaigns and projects around equality, diversity, community cohesion and inclusion.

We rely on the active involvement of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds to make all this happen and we employ youth workers and professional artists to work with us.

The opportunity exists for new participants in Unity to be involved in projects alongside people experienced in a range of activities, in order to develop new skills including: multi media, music, many art forms - performance and visual, organisation, fund-raising, marketing, youth work, community capacity building, Millennium Volunteers (young people) etc. and have some fun whilst meeting people and collectively working towards the aspirations of Multi Cultural Manchester.

You too can be involved - contact us through the UNITY web site.