The rally, hosted by trade union Unite, aims to prevent £660,000 of cuts to children and youth services in the city, which would mean the end of after-school clubs and summer play schemes.
Around £300,000 is to be cut from the children's family education services and a further £360,000 from the youth service.
Doug Nicholls, Unite's national secretary of the Community and Youth Workers Industrial Sector, said: "This symbolises the authority's complete disregard for education-based youth work."
A council spokesman said it would continue funding play centres for disabled children, but it needed to focus on children in the city most at risk of abuse and neglect.
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