Manchester City Old Boys will take on Victims Support VIPS led by avid Blues fan Ricky Hatton for a charity football match at Ewen Fields on Saturday – all in aid of domestic abuse charity Victim Support.

Courtesy of The Printworks in Manchester, Our Telly’s Bigger Than Your Telly could be about to join an illustrious list of World Cup songs in aid of charity.

Manchester homeless charity Mustard Tree continues to grow after gaining ownership of the Ancoats building they have rented for the last nine years, courtesy of Pets At Home founder Anthony Preston.

In the four months of 2014 alone, 65.6% of people referred to Salford Central were there as a result of changes or delays to a number of benefits including employment, housing and universal credit.

Around 230 young Nigerian girls seized by Islamist militant group Boko Haram last month

Manchester is in the top-five worst-affected areas for honour crimes in the UK – and Cosmopolitan are tackling the issue with a proposed day of memory for victims.

The Canal Street festival, the Village People Weekend, will see the great and the good from Manchester’s most celebrated LGBT postcode turn out to have some bank holiday fun and raise some money for HIV charities.

Band’s charity cover of Don Fardon’s George Best-inspired 70s hit Belfast Boy will be backed by the band’s own ode to the football hero Georgie (The Brightest Star)

Russell Selby, Mark Phillips and Jake Mellor are eight months into the charity fundraiser challenge

A-level student Harry Dubois collapsed while watching TV at home and died earlier this month

A Mottram charity set up in memory of a tragic Manchester tot are aiming to raise £1million in his 23 months’ lifetime – and have been handed a boost from holiday firm to help them on their way.