Manchester Academy is represented on a number of bodies, both nationally and locally.

Membership of these is important to demonstrate the Academy's and its sponsors' commitment to the local and wider community and its determination to contribute to the positioning of Manchester as a centre of creativity, culture and research as the "Knowledge Capital".

The Academy also has close links with the independent, fee paying and selective schools owned and run by the United Church Schools Trust and benefits from being part of the same group of school.

These schools are located across Britain, from Sunderland to Southampton and joint activities are arranged between the Academy and the USCT schools e.g. in 2005, a Creative Arts project between Manchester Academy and Lincoln Minster and again in 2005 a joint visit to the International School in Bangalore by students from both Manchester Academy and Guildford High School for Girls. There are close links with the ULT Academies such as that in Salford, which opened in September 2005, Northampton and Lambeth.

As other ULT Academies open in Paddington, Sheffield and Barnsley there will be other opportunities for our students.

More locally some Manchester Academy GCSE and Sixth Form students follow some minority academic courses at William Hulme Grammar School.

The growing partnership between the two schools, one very new and one with over a hundred years of history but both located within the same community show how the Academy is doing things differently and how its students are benefiting as a result of greater opportunities and experiences.

The Academy actively engages with all organisations that, like the Academy, have a stake in ensuring the best for young people in the area which the academy serves.