Manchester City Council had been considering plans to merge its youth and play budgets, worth a combined £4.98m, before reducing it by £2.17m over the next two years, putting services for vulnerable young people at risk of closure.
The reduction would have seen the youth service budget alone fall by £1.7m in 2015/16.
However, Ross Grant, development manager at Voluntary Youth Manchester, expects the authority to reduce the amount it cuts from the fund by using part of an £11m interim dividend from its stake in Manchester Airport to support the delivery of voluntary youth services.
The council has announced that, of the £11m, £9m will be used to offset the impact of cuts to services over the next year, reducing them from £59m to £50m, with the remaining £2m being used to support the 2016/17 budget.
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