Universal Credit: Important news from Alex Park Jobcentre (in English, Arabic and Farsi)

October  2017

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** IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CUSTOMERS **

During the next few weeks you may notice a few changes within your Jobcentre

These changes may include temporary changes to your work coach, the layout of the jobcentre and you being asked a few more questions when you attend about your digital skills.

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All of these things are to prepare for

Wednesday 25th October 2017

when we will become a UNIVERSAL CREDIT FULL SERVICE Jobcentre.

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The way the Department of Work & Pensions delivers its services to claimants has been gradually changing as part of the Government Welfare to Work programme.

As part of those changes all our customers will need to make sure they can access the new online Digital Service to complete their claims online and notify of us of changes to their circumstances.

You will be notified by letter of when the changes will affect you.

If you are familiar with using digital online services, i.e. you have an up to date email account which you use regularly, shop or bank online then you will have no problem following the changes to claiming or contacting the Jobcentre via the new online service.

IF YOU ARE NOT CONFIDENT WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE THEN YOU WILL NEED TO CONTACT YOUR WORK COACH AND ASK FOR HELP ON WHAT TO DO NEXT.

 FAILURE TO DO SO COULD RESULT IN YOU HAVING DIFFCULTY IN CLAIMING OR ACCESSING YOUR BENEFITS.

You will have an online Universal Credit account to manage your claim. You can use your account to report changes, send messages to your work coach and find support.

Eventually all claims will be on the full service and you will have a Universal Credit online account.

 

The Team

Alex Park Jobcentre

 

                    **                       ** معلومات هامة للعملاء
خلال الأسابيع القليلة المقبلة قد تلاحظ بعض التغييرات داخل مركز العمل الخاص بك.
قد تشمل هذه التغييرات تغييرات مؤقتة على مدرب العمل الخاص بك، وتخطيط مركز.

العمل وكنت يطلب بعض الأسئلة أكثر عند حضور حول المهارات الرقمية الخاصة بك.
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كل هذه الأمور هي للتحضير
الأربعاء 25 أكتوبر  2017
عندما سنصبح مركز كريديت كامل خدمة مركز العمل.
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والطريقة التي تقدم بها إدارة العمل والمعاشات خدماتها للمطالبين تتغير تدريجيا كجزء من برنامج الرعاية الاجتماعية للعمل.
وكجزء من هذه التغييرات، سيتعين على جميع عملائنا التأكد من إمكانية وصولهم إلى الخدمة الرقمية الجديدة عبر الإنترنت لاستكمال مطالباتهم عبر الإنترنت وإخطارنا بالتغييرات التي تطرأ على ظروفهم.

سيتم إعلامك بكتاب عندما التغييرات سوف تؤثر عليك.
إذا كنت معتادا على استخدام الخدمات الرقمية عبر الإنترنت، بمعنى أن لديك حساب بريد إلكتروني محدث تستخدمه بشكل منتظم أو تسوقه أو تتعامل معه عبر الإنترنت، فلن تواجهك أية مشكلة بعد إجراء تغييرات على المطالبة أو الاتصال بمركز العمل عبر الخدمة الجديدة عبر الإنترنت.

 

إذا لم تكن متأكدا من أي مما سبق سوف تحتاج إلى الاتصال بك العمل كوتش وطلب المساعدة على ما يجب القيام به المقبل.
الفشل في القيام بذلك قد يؤدي إلى أن يكون لديك صعوبة في المطالبة أو الوصول إلى المنافع الخاصة بك.
سيكون لديك حساب ائتمان عالمي عبر الإنترنت لإدارة مطالبتك.
يمكنك استخدام حسابك للإبلاغ عن التغييرات، وإرسال رسائل إلى مدرب العمل الخاص بك.

والعثور على الدعم في نهاية المطاف جميع المطالبات ستكون على الخدمة الكاملة وسيكون لديك حساب الائتمان العالمي على الانترنت.

 

الفريق

أليكس بارك مركز العمل

                    **                      **اطلاعات مهم مشتریاند

چند هفته آینده ممکن است چندین تغییر در مرکز شغلی شما مشاهده شود.این تغییرات ممکن است شامل تغییرات موقتی به مربی کار شما، طرح مرکز کار و همچنین سوالاتی باشد که شما در مورد مهارت های دیجیتالی خود به آنها مشغول هستید.

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     Ù‡Ù…Ù‡ اینها برای آماده شدن آماده

استچهارشنبه 25 اکتبر 2017

هنگامی که ما تبدیل به یک مرکز خدمات کامل خدمات اعتباری UNIVERSAL می شود.

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راهکارهایی که وزارت کار و حقوق بازنشستگی آن را ارائه می دهد، خدمات به متقاضیان است به تدریج به عنوان بخشی از برنامه رفاهی دولت برای کار در حال تغییر است.

به عنوان بخشی از این تغییرات، مشتریان ما باید اطمینان حاصل کنند که می توانند به سرویس جدید دیجیتال آنلاین دسترسی داشته باشند تا ادعاهای خود را به صورت آنلاین تکمیل کنند و از تغییرات در شرایط آنها مطلع شوند.

 

شما از طریق نامه اعلام می کنید که تغییرات.

شما را تحت تاثیر قرار دهداگر با استفاده از سرویس های آنلاین دیجیتال آشنا هستید، به عنوان مثال شما دارای حساب ایمیل روزانه خود هستید که به طور منظم، فروشگاه یا

 

بانک آنلاین را استفاده می کنید و پس از تغییرات به ادعای یا تماس با مرکز شغلی از طریق.

 

اگر شما با هیچ کدام از موارد فوق موافق نباشید، باید با شما تماس بگیرید و درخواست کنید که چه کاری انجام دهید.

ناکامی در انجام چنین کاری ناشی از عدم وجود مزایا و مزایای شما است.

برای اداره ادعای شما یک حساب اعتباری آنلاین جهانی خواهید داشت.شما می توانید از حساب خود برای گزارش تغییرات، ارسال پیام به مربی کار خود و پیدا کردن پشتیبانی استفاده کنید.

در نهایت تمام ادعاها در سرویس کامل خواهند بود و شما یک اعتبار آنلاین اعتباری جهانی خواهید داشت.

 

تیممرکز

 

تجارت الکس پارک

 

ESOL Learning in Manchester

Women ESOL Computer class

Tuesday 11-am-12 noon

Women with low-level English skills

Learn ESOL at home or in a small group.

Retired teacher offering reasonable rates.

Call 07954357316 anytime.

ABLE - MANCHESTER

ABLE Manchester is an English Language School with a difference as it offers a unique approach to English language development by offering every student the opportunity to create a bespoke course which allows them to meet their learning objectives whether they be professional, personal or academic.

http://able-manchester.co.uk/

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Community Speedwatch scheme

 
Fellow Rangers!
Registering interest for the Community Speedwatch scheme:
Active members of the community join together with the support of the police to monitor the speed of vehicles using detection devices.
Volunteers receive appropriate training, and are supported by neighbourhood policing team (NPT) staff. The scheme aims to cater for the problem of real or perceived speed related offending, and through partnership with the community it is to be used in circumstances that are necessary, justifiable and proportionate in order to:
Improve the quality of life for Whalley Range and Chorlton communities
Increase public awareness of inappropriate speed
Reduce the speed of vehicles to the speed limit
Reduce the risk of injury on the roads
Speed Watch activity is not about interfering with neighbours behaviour; it is a proactive solution to improve the safety and quality of life for everyone in the community.
Speeding cars and anti-social driving continue to be a challenge on some streets in Whalley Range and Chorlton.
Working with the police and local Councillors, Whalley Rangers/Whalley Range Community Forum have successfully set up a Community Speedwatch scheme.
This is a new initiative where active members of the community join together with the support of the police to monitor the speed of vehicles using detection devices.
Volunteers will receive appropriate training, and will be supported by neighbourhood policing team (NPT) staff.
If you are interested in joining this activity please contact us via communityforumwhalleyrange@gmail.com with your name, telephone number and email and we will forward on for you – or check on the Whalley Rangers Facebook for info.

All Aboard for Cromwell Community Cuppa and the Creative Conversation group!

 

On Wednesday 13th of September our two JNR8 over 50’s groups went on an adventure aboard the Prince Henry narrow boat to Boothstown from Stretford Marina.

The trip was paid for thanks to a donation we’d received last year from our local pharmacy, Well Whalley Range.

7 of us: Chris, Margaret, Sue, Joyce, Audrey, Sheila and her friend Kay – booked onto the trip and invited 4 of the members of the Live Well Make Art group: Lotte, Carol, Gail and Jasmine to join us. 

The Art group actually took part in an iPad masterclass with Lotte!

The trip was a real success and a great experience – and we would all recommend it to any groups who are looking for a day trip with a difference!

Read more about the project who organises the trips below – and see more of our photos here:  https://www.whalleyrange.org/8785-2/

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All Aboard is Emma, Claire, Richard, Liz and Julie, a group of parents who were regular users of Trafford Council’s Openlock Project. When the project came to an end earlier this year, we put in a successful bid to take on one of the narrow boats, ‘Prince Henry,’ for local community use for the next three years.

The canal is the fastest way to slow down and our aim is bring you a variety of workshops and events to help steer away from the pace and pressure of everyday life and promote well being, relaxation and learning in a calm and peaceful environment.

We also offer a range of standard skippered day-hire trips plus themed and seasonal days out.

All are welcome aboard. We offer subsidised rates for charities, CICs and community groups, including children and young people with SEN and learning differences; carers; the elderly, and people with disabilities. Please contact us directly to discuss individual access requirements due to the space and layout of the boat.

Henry is moored at Stretford Marina on the Bridgewater canal. Free car parking is available. Alternatively we are a 10 minute walk from Trafford Park railway station or a 15 minute walk, along the canal towpath, from Stretford Metrolink station.

For bookings and enquiries please e-mail: allaboardmcr@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/AllAboardManchester/

 

Befriending, connecting and more: Age-friendly news

 

Members of Age-friendly Whalley Range and Chorlton were happy to welcome a group of delegates from the Standing Committee for Health and Social Welfare from Oslo City Council to our community centre recently.

We received a message from the group upon their return to Oslo:

Good morning 🙂

On behalf of The Standing Committee on Health and Social Welfare in Oslo I want to thank you a lot for hosting us last Monday.

You have a very inspiring place, attitude and experiences and the group visiting you expressed that in plenum.

We have arrived safely in Oslo after interesting and great days in Manchester and Leeds.

Good luck with your future work.

Yours sincerely

Hans–Olav Toft

Secretary of The Standing Committee on Health and Social Welfare

 

(Thanks to Russell and Dave for letting us use the the church as it was enrolment day in the JNR8 hall for our ESOL learners!)

Manchester Cares is a brand new community network of young professionals and older neighbours hanging out and helping one another in our rapidly changing city.

We do this because our home town of Manchester is a wonderful place, with innovation and influence, history and heart at its core. There’s always so much going on, from new music to new businesses to new people arriving all the time.

But the city we love is now growing and changing at double speed, and that leaves some people feeling anonymous, isolated and left behind.

For our older neighbours in particular, many of whom have spent a lifetime in their home neighbourhoods, the rush and pace of the city can often now feel too much. Getting around can be difficult, and trends including globalisation, gentrification, migration and digitisation are transforming communities faster than ever before.

The multiplying effect of those pressures is that many older people have deep roots â€“ from Ancoats to Ardwick, Longsight to Levenshulme – but few connections. Meanwhile, young professionals – often graduates from across the country and around the world – can have hundreds of connectionsin the social media age, but often no roots in their communities.

The separation of those parallel worlds wastes human potential, entrenches loneliness and isolation, perpetuates social division and is ultimately corrosive for our society.

Manchester Cares seeks to address this modern blight of disconnection by harnessing the people and places around us for the benefit of all.

Our objectives are to:

  • Reduce isolation and loneliness amongst older people and young professionals alike
  • Improve the connection, confidence, skills, resilience and power of all participants so neighbours can feel part of our changing city rather than left behind by it
  • Bring people together to reduce the gaps across social, generational, digital, cultural and attitudinal divides.

Find out more: https://manchestercares.org.uk/about-us

ABOUT CYRIL FLINT BEFRIENDERS

With over 5 million elderly people living on their own, and 50% citing television as their main source of company, loneliness is an ever-present problem within our community (Campaign To End Loneliness).

Cyril Flint, an elderly pensioner living on his own in the Trafford area, was a classic example of one such individual. Having spent 20 lonely Christmas holidays on his own, since the passing of his wife, Cyril story not only evoked a wave of compassion within the community, but it also made us want to do something to help. Setting up an informal befriending service, designed to help prevent social isolation, seemed like the perfect solution. Since its creation, our scheme has grown throughout the Manchester area and we now have an increasing number of active volunteers throughout the community. https://www.cyrilflint.org

 
 

The book is here! Alexandra Park Manchester – A park for the people since 1870

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The wonderful Alexandra Park History book ‘Alexandra Park Manchester; A park for the people since 1870’ will be available to buy on Wednesdays and Fridays in Chorlton Lodge from 11 am – till 2 pm.
The official launch of the book, video documentary and brand new story boards will take place in Archives+ at Manchester Central library
18:00 – 19:45 on the 28th September.
Tickets from eventbrite:

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Alexandra Park Manchester Heritage Group invite you to the launch of their brand new book entitled ‘Alexandra Park Manchester – A Park for the People since 1870’

Also viewing for the first time will be the accompanying DVD documentry on the park, and brand new storyboards showing the history of the park from its construction through to the present day.

The book will be available to buy at the event.

Performance Space in Archives+

Central Library

St Peter’s Square

Manchester

Celebrate Festival Photos 2017

Photographs from our volunteer photographers who captured the fantastic atmosphere of the 20th Whalley Range ‘Celebrate’ festival.

Our theme this year: The Heart of Whalley Range.

Photographs from Anthony Morris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographs from Andrew Thompson

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Age-friendly Whalley Range event at Ivy Court, Chorlton

A welcome from Scheme Manager, Gloria Thompson

On March 17th,  Age-friendly Whalley Range & Chorlton held a Community event at Adactus Housing’s Ivy Court on Beech Road in Chorlton – to bring older people together to socialise, to enjoy a hot meal and to access information in good company.

Loren Grant of Foodwiser gave a presentation about food and nutrition: Foods to Remember – how food and lifestyle can help protect you from memory loss and dementia.

We were also really happy to welcome the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Carl Austin-Behan to the event to welcome everyone  and to talk about the great work  volunteers are doing  in communities across Manchester – and of course to pose for photographs with everyone!

A huge ‘Thank You’ to Trina, Andrea and Roger for all your help – and Una and Lotte for pampering and the bag-making workshop.

The Lead Station provided a delicious St Patrick’s Day themed lunch of Irish potato & chive soup and a selection of sandwiches including Guinness braised beef and Irish cheddar ploughmans… and our host – Scheme Manager Gloria Thompson – provided lots of tea and coffee, cake and biscuits!

Age-friendly Whalley Range & Chorlton is a local network and steering group aiming to support and engage with residents, to promote healthy ageing and access to information.

After the event Gloria said:

“Residents who attended are still buzzing about the information they received, the food and the visit of the Lord Mayor.

Comments about the event include, “The presentation on nutrition was excellent”.  “I learned so much”.  “I would attend the event again”.  â€œIt great to see our lounge used for an event like this”.  “The person who did the hand massage even told me about oils that can help me sleep better”.

See some more of the photos from the event below.

Thanks to our Age-friendly photographer Anthony Morris – who has an exhibition of his photographs in Chorlton library from 3rd-29th of April.

Chair of Whalley Range Community Forum Bill Williams – meets local historian – Bill Williams!

Dr S. Sinha and Mr Shah from the Indian Senior Citizens Centre

Photo: Andrea Marsden

Adactus Housing Group Ltd: photographs courtesy of Samantha Ryan from Marketing & Communications