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Carers Online - The Gaddum Centre Story

20 Sep 2017 - 11:49 by helen.walker

The Gaddum Centre is busy working with a web developer today, putting the finishing touches to its great new carers’ website. A network of 20 Manchester carer support organisations, with focus groups, has spent six months designing and developing the website. This has been achieved with invaluable involvement from carers looking at the design and how it will work to make sure that it meets the needs of carers across the city.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

Sharing life experiences - Wythenshawe Good Neighbours Story

20 Sep 2017 - 09:24 by helen.walker

“I know it’s Tuesday because I am going out to lunch and I don’t normally go out”. Every week for the past year, older people in Wythenshawe have had the opportunity to meet up for lunch at the Northenden Social Club. Apart from sharing a meal together, the lunch helps everyone to socialise and meet others in a community space.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Older People

Making a massive difference to people’s lives - Gaddum Centre Story

19 Sep 2017 - 15:54 by helen.walker

Joanne has been with the Gaddum Centre four to five months and is the Team Leader for IAPT counselling. The talking therapy services are based in GP surgeries across Manchester providing 12 weekly 1:1 sessions with clients referred by their GP. 

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

New Work Placements Programme with the Challenge and Department of Education

19 Sep 2017 - 15:23 by michelle.foster

The Challenge have recently been commissioned by the Department of Education to design and pilot a new model for student work placements, which the government is planning to roll out nationally as a mandatory requirement for all (~250,000) technical education students by 2020, as part of their newly proposed t-levels.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Learning, Skills and Employment
Young People

Free chairs

19 Sep 2017 - 15:06 by michelle.foster

Manchester City Council have some free chairs to give away which are located at Hulme Hall, in the grounds of Claremont Resource Centre, which is at the junction of Jarvis road and Rolls Crescent in Hulme, M15 5FS. The chairs will need to be collected.

     

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Capacity Building

The Best Part is the End! - Community Explorers Story

19 Sep 2017 - 14:38 by helen.walker

 ‘You can tell it is a Community Explorers meeting by the noise’. Lots of conversations and networking is the one of the main reasons people attend these community health and care meetings. On Tuesday 19 September, there were 18 participants including Jobcentre Plus, Manchester Carers Forum and the North Manchester Black Health Forum.



News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Health and Wellbeing

Manchester BME Network - Free Legal Advice Sessions starting

19 Sep 2017 - 09:10 by michelle.foster

Manchester BME Network are starting their free legal advice sessions again on Tuesday (19 September), with the sessions taking place on Tuesdays 9.30am-11.30am at Mauldeth House, 2nd floor right, Nell Lane, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 7RL.

Areas covered, include: Housing, Immigration, Employment, Property, Family and Taxation

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
People/communities experiencing racial inequalities
Capacity Building

Memories of Disabled Living – were you involved with one of Manchester’s oldest charities?

19 Sep 2017 - 09:09 by michelle.foster

Disabled Living, one of Manchester’s oldest charities, is calling for people to get in touch who have memories, materials and/or photographs about their links with the charity. Hundreds of thousands of people across the North West have been involved with the organisation in its 120 year history as service users, volunteers, staff and trustees.

News Type: 
Sector News
Shared Topic Areas: 
Physical Disability

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