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Award criteria
A community space can be a piece of land or a building available for use by the community. Organisations needed to show:
• Best use of a community space
• How the space is seen as central within the community
• The impact it has within the local community
Age Friendly Manchester’s Cultural Champions from South Manchester have come together with Chorlton Arts Festival (CAF) to create an Age Friendly CAF programme of events. All activity is open to anyone aged 50+.
On 29 March the Care Quality Commission (CQC)launched a campaign to encourage older people and their loved ones to feedback about the quality of health and social care they have received. 
CQC are encouraging older people to feedback on their care, as research has shown that older people are far less likely to complain about services and are less aware of the ways they can share their views.
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Could you give us 10 minutes to talk about health?
As part of Greater Manchester’s Devolution agenda, for the first time Greater Manchester is taking control of £6 billion of public funding for health and social care from April 2016.
Have you recently retired and are finding the transition trickier than anticipated? Did you retire a while ago and are finding it less than rewarding? Are you retired and struggling with your mood? Perhaps you’re coming up to retirement this year?
Manchester Mind is looking for people willing to help shape their 6-week long free wellbeing in retirement course.
You can take part in a focus group in March or fill out a short online questionnaire, at: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3LHWJVT
Social Isolation and Loneliness has a serious negative impact on older people’s health and wellbeing. 
Age-friendly Manchester are very happy to announce that a motion was passed at the meeting of Council on 18 November to adopt the Older People's Charter.
This is a fantastic early milestone for the Charter following the launch on 1st October and marks the beginning of what Age-friendly Manchester intend to achieve across the city.
The Ambition for Ageing programme will be delivered by a cross-sector partnership, led by GMCVO and funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Local Delivery Leads (LDLs) will lead on the work in 24 wards across 8 local authorities in Greater Manchester.
LDLs for Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Tameside and Wigan were appointed in October 2015.
International Older People's day was on 1 October. To mark this day, Age-Friendly Manchester have launched an Age-Friendly Manchester Older People’s Charter.
Age-Friendly Manchester want to make Manchester a better place to grow older and in turn improve the lives of older people. The Charter reinforces the principles required to make this happen.
This aim can only be fulfilled if the people, groups and organisations in the city give their support and pledge to do things, big or small, that make Manchester more age-friendly and better for older people.
Did you know that commissioners of health services in Manchester have been working with voluntary and community groups on projects for older people in the city?
The aim is to help people in their 50s and over to stay involved in hobbies and social groups so they don’t feel isolated, which can have a big impact on physical and mental health.
The groups offer a wide range of recreational ideas and are also a way of making friends and easing loneliness.
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