The day was a great success: people joined us on the climate action walk – then back to JNR8 for our event.
Thanks to Jane from Whalley Range Climate Action Group and Anthony Morris for some great photos of the walk and event!
We had:
- flu jabs,
- health checks,
- arts and crafts for wellbeing,
- Whalley Range Climate Action Group
- resilience coaching
- I.T advice,
- entertainment,
- soup
- information stalls.
Thanks to Anthony Morris for photos, Jane from the Whalley Range Climate Action Group, buzz, Chorlton Good Neighbours, Manley Pharmacy, Be Well, Manchester Cares, Central Manchester Falls team, Lotte (crafts), Steve (music) – and everyone who came along to help and to make the day a great success!
Thanks to Ambition for Ageing for the funding!
We are really pleased to be holding a couple of events for International Day of Older Persons on Friday 1st October this week at the JNR8 Youth & Community Centre in Whalley Range: see the poster for details.
We will make sure the building is well ventilated and follow covid-safe guidelines.
The events are organised by Age-friendly Whalley Range, the Forum and partner organisations – and are aimed at older members of the community to mark the day, to welcome people back to our community centres – and to make a stand against climate change as older people.
We have made some placards with slogans about issues that concern us – and we will meet at JNR8 at 10:30 am for a short walk around the age-friendly benches route – displaying actions we can take to address climate change and to show older people’s concerns as we approach the UN Climate Change conference in November.
At 1:30pm we have an age-friendly community event at JNR8 with information stalls from partner organisations, taster sessions of the exercise and activities we run at JNR8 for older residents, refreshments and some entertainment.
Lotte will run an arts and crafts activity for those who are interested.
Manley Park pharmacy will be giving flu jabs in one of our side rooms – and Debra will give short one-to-one well-being coaching sessions for people who are feeling anxious about going out/meeting people and who may be worrying about the uncertainty of the covid situation.
The event will be smaller than our usual events for covid-safety and we do have a travel budget for people who might struggle to get here for various reasons – so can refund taxi fares (please ask for receipts)
We look forward to welcoming you!
See our Climate Action slogans here:
