Category: Generating Opportunities

Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People Living Our Lives

Living Our Lives are workshops and information sharing events for disabled people of all ages living in Manchester. They are an opportunity to find out more about different issues important to disabled people.

Living Our Lives workshops will be spread out through 2016 and early 2017, so let Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) know what you want to find out about these can schedule it in later this year.

The first few sessions are:
Friday 17 June – Find out about us…
Come along and find out about GMCDP, what they offer, how disabled people are organising together and supporting each other work – and if there time, ideas for places to find useful information.

Wednesday 22 June – Making the Most of your Money
Find out about the different concessions available to disabled people.

Wednesday 6 July – Support with Employment
Find out about what support there is to find work, and also support to stay in work and make the workplace more accessible to you. Richard Neil McRobert from Breakthrough UK will be talking about the support Breakthrough offers to disabled people living in Manchester who are seeking employment.
The workshops are being held 2pm-4.30pm, in Unit 4 at the Windrush Millennium Centre, 70 Alexandra Road, Moss Side, M13 7WD.

For further information and to confirm your attendance, contact Linda, on 0161 636 7535, or email: lmarsh@gmcdp.com

Alexandra Heritage Group- sub group “The Women’s Peace Crusade”

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The Alexandra Park Heritage Group have been invited to join with Ali Ronan and others- see  attached Pdf /Flyer- to recreate the Women’s Peace Crusade of 1916-1917 and their struggle to prevent WW1. A sub group has met to determine what needs to be done.

To help us to do this, we would like to invite you to a meeting in Chorlton Lodge in Alexandra Park on Friday 10th June at 11 am to discuss the following and get your views and if possible, your help and support.

We hope to recreate a peace rally in Alexandra Park , the first weekend in October, and it will be part of a video and book.

Ali has already made a video “These Dangerous Women” and it will be a similar format. We also hope to make the video relevant for those struggling for peace today._see link to video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?V=n8gf2ilViUc

Alex Park has been chosen as there were prominent Conscientious Objectors living near the Park. The Park was used as a place for the rallies, and, there is documented evidence of this.

We need a variety of help to make this work.

We need people willing to research individuals and identify those individual women who were part of the Manchester Peace Crusades, although Ali has already done a great deal of local research to identify some of the women involved.

We need women to speak /role play those women in the video (see the video that has already been made as to what this might mean.),

We need others to be the “crowd” at the rally. Ali has authentic copies of some of the historic leaflets, which some women in the crowd can distribute.

All taking part need to dress in Edwardian costume-( see the video). We need help with costumes.

We need help with making a banner and placards and badges.

We hope to have support from a choir to sing peace songs.

SO- we hope this recreation of history in both a serious and “fun” way will appeal to you and you will want to join in
If you cannot make the meeting, but want to take part, please let us know.

Women’s Peace Crusade
Thanks
Angela Downing, Jenny Riley and Jenni Gomes

Alexandra Park Heritage Group

The Manchester Strategy

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If you were one of the tens of thousands reached by our consultation on how to make Manchester into the place youd want to live, work, play and do business in 2025, thank you for being part of such a huge, inspiring response.The strategy is the culmination of that response. People’s commitment to the city, and their desire to see its future success, shine through it, and it a credit to all who contributed including:

  • Manchester residents themselves, in their thousands
  • the city army of volunteers (our city has around 100,000) from tiny clubs to business-scale operations, and community activists
  • a wide non-resident public – some of our city biggest fans – who work in the city or visit to enjoy our varied culture and leisure
  • business and civic leaders from the city and the city region who added their valuable insights, revealing the extent of their own crucial part in delivering Manchester success.

Responses from across the city were many and varied, but a few themes came through again and again. People of Manchester share the desire to see the city do well, to see Manchester use and value its green spaces, to have a clean city with one of the best public transport systems in the world, to preserve its historic buildings and support those in need.

Read more: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500313/the_manchester_strategy

Chorlton Good Neighbours – Activities in Whalley Range for older people

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Please see information below on the activities Chorlton Good Neighbours offer for local older people across both Chorlton and Whalley Range wards. CGN s base is in Wilbraham St Ninians Church,  and they are funded through Manchester City Council to support older people across both wards. Please promote across your networks.

Actvities include:

·         3 exercise classes running each week, a graded system to suit a range of needs , with experienced instructors
·         Access to a monthly Positive Living Group  or access to a 12 week Positive living Programme, run by a trained life coach
·         A weekly singing group Thursdays 11.45-1pm , and visits to local residential homes to perform
·         A Friday morning gardening club 10-1pm
·         A weekly small craft session Wednesdays 1-3pm
·         A monthly history talk to stimulate the brain cells!
·         A monthly Sunday tea with transport, entertainment and hot meal

If older people’s wellbeing would be improved by a regular visit from a volunteer then that can be arranged, as well as support to remain independent by having  worker or volunteer escort people to the shops/banks etc.

If you need any further information, please contact Helen Hibberd Chorlton Good Neighbours on 0161 881 2925 or email helen@chorltongoodneighbours. org

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Links to job search and volunteering websites

Whalley Range High School Vacancies:

http://www.wrhs1118.co.uk/vacancies/  

Latest Local Vacancies from Jobcentre Plus

www.gov.uk/jobsearch  

Chorlton Job Centre on Twitter: see all the latest opportunities!

@CHORLTONJCP  

Manchester Job Centre Plus: all the Manchester jobs/opportunities in one place

@JCPinManchester

Sharing jobs, events & essential careers advice for Manchester, Salford, Trafford & beyond! Tweets by Linda, Steve & Gill. With you Mon-Fri 9-5

APPRENTICESHIPS: As employees, apprentices earn a wage and work alongside experienced staff to gain job-specific skills. Off the job, usually on a day-release basis, apprentices receive training to work towards nationally recognised qualifications. Apprenticeships are available in more than 190 roles across a wide variety of industry sectors.

These range from accountancy and business administration to construction, engineering, manufacturing – and many more. For more information please visit http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/  

Current Vacancies in Schools: http://manchester.eteach.com/Jobs.aspx  

 Twitter: Follow your council jobs for updates: @yourcounciljobs

Manchester Evening News Fish 4 Jobs: http://manchester.fish4jobs.co.uk/

Guardian Jobs: http://jobs.theguardian.com/jobs/

Facebook Links:

Manchester Event Volunteers – Official,

National Careers Service,

National Apprenticeship Service (NAS),

UK Digital Champions,

Volunteer Centre Manchester – Official,

Manchester National Trust Volunteers,

Back on Track Manchester,

Trinity House Community Resource Centre,

Gmcvo,

CSV UK,

The Money Advice Service,

Forever Manchester,

Visit Manchester,

Manchester Libraries,

Manchester City Library,

Business in the Community,

Blue Orchid,

The Social Media Surgery,

Manchester City Council

Volunteer Reading Champions: Helping adults to improve their reading skills

Please find link to leaflet below about a new Reading Champions programme starting in November.  Manchester Adult Education Service are running a six week course aimed at people who want to become volunteers to help adults improve their reading skills. It will provide volunteers with an opportunity to discover how to help others learn to read.  

Following the course, volunteers will be supported to run reading groups to help adults improve their reading skills.
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For further information, please contact:
Lorraine Godkin
Manchester Adult Education Service
Withington ALC
24a Burton Road
Withington, M20 3ED
e-mail: l.godkin@manchester.gov.uk
Tel:  0161 234 5687

Free ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) classes for local women

 

Free ESOL Classes for women in Whalley Range

With two qualified female tutors

The women who attend our Tuesday classes range from Urdu, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic speakers: some speak very little English and struggle with every day things such as speaking to their children school staff, making appointments – or simply  engaging and chatting with their neighbours.

(call 881 3744 to book the creche) ESOL classes run from 10-11 am

Call Chris on 881 3744 for more details – or pop into the JNR8 Centre to find out more.