Manchester Life

NTC is lucky to be located close to Manchester City Centre, while still preserving tranquillity on campus. While studying here, you can benefit from the balance of a relaxing and restorative campus, created so you can have an exceptional learning experience – with an invigorating city right around the corner. Manchester itself offers many opportunities for you to immerse yourself during your learning, with fantastic churches, fascinating libraries and a whole host of ways to enjoy yourself.

Didsbury Village is just around the corner from NTC. Brimming with cafés, quality food shops, pubs and restaurants, the village-like atmosphere is distinctly continental, especially on a sunny day. We’re also close to Fletcher Moss and Didsbury Park, and the River Mersey, allowing for picturesque walks that transport you away from the hustle and bustle. Pop into a coffee shop and you’ll often bump into students focusing on their studies, or meeting for fun.

Travel a little further on the bus, and you’ll find yourself in the centre of one of Europe’s most dynamic and distinctive cities. Once known as ‘Cottonopolis,’ Manchester was the first ever industrial city – and where the bulk of the world’s cotton was once manufactured. Amidst the mills, warehouses and canals, there grew a strong tradition of human rights: the earliest labour unions, the co-operative movement and the Pankhurst family all originated in Manchester.

The extremes of wealth and poverty that industrialisation generated also led to Manchester emerging as a forerunner in the faith-based philanthropic movement of the time. The College has connections with Frank Crossley – the ‘Saint of Ancoats,’ and a pioneer in urban humanitarian outreach, who blazed a trail that others would follow.

Today at NTC, we try to apply our theological learning to the real world – just as those pioneers of social justice did in the past.