Basketball should open doors, not create barriers.
Greater Manchester Basketball uses basketball to build confidence, connection, opportunity and community.
From grassroots development to charity partnerships, girls’ basketball and wider impact work, we are building a programme that gives people more than a place to play.
Community is where the pathway begins.
Not everyone starts with a scholarship application, team trial or elite pathway. Some people need a positive first step back into sport, confidence and connection.
Feel part of something
Community sessions create a positive environment where people can reconnect with sport and feel they belong.
Build local relationships
Basketball gives people a shared space to meet, move, learn and grow alongside others.
Find the next step
Community routes can signpost people into coaching, teams, scholarship, camps, mindset support and wider development.
Championing women and girls through basketball.
Our CIC work champions women and girls at grassroots level by creating better access, clearer pathways and more visible opportunities through basketball.
This is about more than sessions. It is about confidence, belonging, role models and progression.
- Grassroots basketball development.
- Women and girls in sport.
- Positive community environments.
- Pathways into wider GMB opportunities.
Supporting Why Not I through basketball.
These images show GMB supporting Why Not I by hosting one of their basketball camps. Why Not I, founded by Kofi Josephs, creates opportunities that use basketball, culture and community to inspire young people and open up positive pathways.
For GMB, this is what community work should look like: shared spaces, aligned partners, better access and basketball used as a route into confidence, connection and opportunity.
Partnership makes the pathway stronger.
GMB works with aligned people, charities and performance partners who care about access, standards and opportunity.
This includes charity collaborations such as Why Not I, alongside performance partners including Macclesfield Performance, led by Dominique, and Optima Performance, represented by Jack.
Basketball can do more than fill a court.
The community route is part of how GMB creates impact across confidence, wellbeing, education, leadership and opportunity.
Young people
Positive spaces where young people can move, connect, learn and build confidence.
Women + girls
Grassroots routes that champion access, visibility and progression for women and girls in basketball.
Wellbeing
Sport as a practical route into confidence, movement, connection and positive habits.
Opportunity
Pathways from community sessions into teams, camps, scholarship, coaching and development.
We want to work with people who care about impact.
GMB is interested in working with organisations that care about young people, families, health, confidence, education, women and girls, and community opportunity.
Purpose-led links
We are open to aligned charity partnerships that use basketball to support confidence, access and community connection.
Better support
Performance partners help create stronger environments around the player, from physical preparation to wider development.
Sustainable impact
Funding and sponsorship can help protect access, widen reach and build stronger grassroots pathways.
Want to talk about community work?
Use the contact page to tell us what you are interested in: community sessions, partnerships, schools, funding, sponsorship, women and girls development or wider impact work.
Start with basketball. Build from there.
Whether you are a player, parent, charity, school, partner or funder, this is where the conversation can begin.