Odyssey9 Academy are a community group based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, with a passion for improving communities and the future of young people living in them by tackling social issues through creative, youth led projects.

Our aim at present, is to provide the projects to young people in our local community of Bolton, with the longer-term goal to extend this to all boroughs of Greater Manchester and ultimately across the country.

Through the attendance of our workshops young people will not only be educated around social issues and the impact of these, but they will also have a safe space filled with like-minded people being taught transferrable skills, tackling mental health and wellbeing and having somewhere the can positively direct their time and energy with the hope that this will also lead to our communities being better with less antisocial behaviour.

Working with, educating and supporting our young people involved or at risk of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) is the drive behind Odyssey9 Academy & the work we do. We have a special focus on working alongside partner organisations to tackle grooming and exploitation, county lines/drugs and knife crime.