Community Champions are people from across Rochdale Borough who make a positive difference by helping others. Rochdale Community Champions offer Benefit advice and Support.

Edge Hill University have been working with Rochdale Community Champions to offer leadership and research training.

As part of this project work volunteers wanted to spend time during National Volunteers Week raising the profile of their volunteering with the Champs. The volunteers designed and planned their project, writing press releases and planning an event to value and celebrate their fellow RCC volunteers. On the 10th June 2016 volunteers and Rochdale Borough Council held a celebration event where they presented a cheque to the leader of the council, for over nine hundred thousand pounds. This was the calculated cost-benefit analysis of their volunteering in the financial year April 2015-16 to Rochdale Borough Council.