Get in early!

Ok Christmas is almost here but it is not too early about a new start in 2015!

Here at Healthy Me Healthy Communities we have a number of free courses for exploring starting a business and gaining a Food Safety qualification - great for finding work in schools, food industry and retail. 

They even come with a free creche!

Get in early and book today!

Rusholme Community Conversation for good health and well-being

Rusholme Community Conversation for good health and well-being

On Wednesday 14th January, we are hosting the 1st Rusholme Community Conversation for good health and well-being at Rusholme Children's Centre, Great Western Street, M14 4HA. (please see the attached poster). There will be refreshments including  a healthy brunch.

Health and well-being is affected by many factors with stark differences between different communities affecting quality of life and life expectancy. A lot is written about the causes including a lack of information, confidence, resilience and isolation. Also within Rusholme there is a great deal of assets including services, parks, groups and activities for people to get involved and enjoy health benefits.

The first Rusholme Community Conversation is about finding out about what is important for Rusholme and how people can work together for improving health and well-being for everyone.

Please let us know if you plan to attend and bring along any information you would like to share.

 

 

 

 

Crafts and Film Sunday 30th November

Join us this Sunday 30th November for Christmas crafts and film, pop-in and stay as long as you like.
We have a refreshments, free Wi-Fi and chat alongside our regular sessions.

3.30-5.30 is making fantastic hand-sewn Christmas gifts and decorations
5.30-8 is our film feature 'A Matter of Life and Death' a classic from 1946 given 5 stars http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stairway_to_heaven_1946/

All the activities and materials are free, but of course a small donation for refreshments is welcome.

So pop-in and say hello at the Birch Community Centre, Brighton Grove, Rusholme, M14 5TJ

For more information or a chat about the session contact Rich Browning on 07913 540680 or richbrowning@healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk

Social & Security and Rusholme Film Club for November and December

Lots of lovely festive craft sessions and great films for November and December.

All welcome with tea, fresh coffee and biscuits.

Come and join us soon!

Rusholme Film Club - special showing

The next Rusholme Film Club showing is on Sunday 2nd November and part of the 'Festival of Ideas Rusholme'.

The event includes a cheese and wine welcome, film introduction, discussion and workshop from Dr Helena Mary Kettleborough about the fantastic http://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/


Please book early at http://foirusholme-openingnight.eventbrite.co.uk and explore the other festival events at http://festivalofideasrusholme.com

 

Rusholme Festival of Ideas 2nd - 10th November

Welcome to the new Festival of Ideas Rusholme. The 2014 festival edition focuses upon mapping ideas from local people for creating the new Rusholme Story.

In this first year of the festival we present a series of events at key locations that connect the new Rusholme Story together, some of these stories take place in the Rusholme neighbourhoods and others make connections to other parts of the City of Manchester. We present a number of firsts for Rusholme including new film screenings, discussions, workshops and an opportunity to connect to the ‘Imagine Rusholme’ work where we explore ideas and thinking about the local area, about this place we call ‘home’.

So come along and explore Rusholme “a name conveying very different ideas to many people” (People’s Institute, 1894)

Event Programme and booking links

Sunday 2^nd November 6 for 6.30-8.30pm event

Festival opening and film event: Journey of the Universe (no cert
http://foirusholme-openingnight.eventbrite.co.uk

Tuesday 4th November, 6 for 6.30-8.30

Baldwin’s Nigger (no cert)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/baldwins-nigger-screening-tickets-13657761733

Thursday 6^th November 10.30am – 2pm

Rusholme – What’s the Story? script-writing workshop
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rusholme-whats-the-story-tickets-13657777781

Friday 7^th November 10am – 4pm

From Rusholme with Love! digital story-telling and archive day
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-rusholme-with-love-tickets-13657805865

Saturday 8^th November, 10.30-1pm

Mapping and making- family arts and craft workshop
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-rusholme-workshop-tickets-13657854009

Monday 10^th November, 6.30-8.45pm

Imagine Rusholme workshop- community planning workshop

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagine-rusholme-workshop-tickets-13657854009

 

Rusholme Film Club September and October showings

Hope to see you folks at Rusholme Film Club - part of the 'Social & Security' project at the Birch Community Centre in Rusholme for Manchester residents.

Saturday 21st September: Thelma & Louise

Sunday 19th October: Kill your Darlings

3.30-5.30pm Craft workshop
5.30 Refreshments for 6pm film showing

Many ways to great wellbeing and being better off

 

If you are thinking of volunteering or returning to work then a Food Safety qualification is a great way to stand out from the crowd. HMHC has a free 6-week Food Safety Level 2 course complete with qualification starting Tuesday 16^th September at Ashbury Meadows Children’s Centre. The course is 12.45-2.45pm and a free crèche is available.

Thinking of starting a business but don’t know where to start or lack the confidence? Then try HMHC’s new Craft Enterprise course for starting your own craft enterprise. It is a free 8-week course covering personal planning, introduction to business planning and practical craft workshops. Craft Enterprise starts Wednesday 17^th September, 9.45-11.45 at Ashbury Meadows Children’s Centre, again with a free crèche.

Also there is still time to join our Cookery Champions course at Newton Heath Children’s Centre. The course is a practical introduction for teaching cooking workshops. It is for 10-weeks, 9.45-11.45 and is free with a crèche.

Check the flyer below for more courses coming soon.

For more information and to book please contact:

Rich Browning

Tel or Text: 07913 540680

E: richbrowning@healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk

Try Social & Security in September for FREE

'Social & Security' is new for Manchester and available to try for FREE during September!!!

So what is it about?

The Birch Community Centre in Rusholme working in partnership with Healthy Me Healthy Communities are launching ‘Social & Security’ – a new and exciting hand-made community café and social-space aimed at improving health and wellbeing. It is for the over-50's but open to everyone to enjoy. It will include community activities including a craft club, baking for good mood workshops, art displays, film club and training for community organising enabling people to share ideas and work together.

All the activities will contribute to and help to make this a vibrant and exciting community-space for Manchester. Initially ‘Social & Security’ will provide a weekly Friday afternoon session and bi-monthly Sunday session incorporating the Rusholme Film Club.

There will be no charge during September, so come along and try Social & Security for free.

‘Social and Security’ starts on Friday 5th September 12.30-3.30 and Sunday 7th September (3-8pm). For more information contact Rich Browning at richbrowning@healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk or 07913 540680.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Healthy Me Healthy Communities week...

A busy week for Healthy Me Healthy Communities, starting at the NEPHRA Good Neighbour’s Film Club, with residents enjoying a Sunday afternoon film, cream-tea and chat. Film Clubs are fantastic for bringing people together, meeting up and tackling loneliness. The pilot film club is continuing with members helping to set-up and coordinate future showings, which is great news for the older residents of New Moston.

“It’s great for me, I can get out and enjoy myself, then go home and enjoy the rest of my Sunday knowing I have met up with friends” film-club member

Families of Fallowfield have been enjoying a summer of family activities for good health and wellbeing. Along with food, craft and exercise workshops, over 15 families from 10 countries have benefited from making new friendships and developing peer-support for settling in their new community. They have built strong relationships with the excellent staff at Fallowfield Children’s Centre and have first-hand experience of the services provided in their community. This week families enjoyed a double-bill workshop of family fitness and making food-flag snacks using fresh produce. Next week sees the last sessions with an end of party picnic and trip to Legoland – Trafford Centre. We thank our funders and friends at Manchester City Council and Equity Foundation.

 

In Gorton, taster workshops are providing parents with craft and sewing skills for making items to sell as the first steps to starting a craft enterprise. Parents and residents will be able to get started with our new courses for starting a business, social-enterprise and food training, starting September across East Manchester. Please get in touch to book your place.

 

On Thursday we were working with Eastland Homes, delivering our pop-up healthy-eating workshops using our mobile-kitchen at the brilliant fun and feedback day. Residents enjoyed watching making and tasting healthy soups, home-made burgers, fajitas and a fab easy cheesecake. And don’t forget our demo workshop is available to book for your event too.

 

And that’s not all, with lots of work in the background for the ‘Rusholme Festival of Ideas’ exploring community mapping and planning with a fortnight of films, workshops and discussion sessions. We enjoyed meeting with the MMU Special Collections Team and their inspiring archive collections ideal for community story-telling workshop.

That’s all for now, have a fun Bank Holiday weekend!

Heritage Lottery Success

We are chuffed to announce success in securing a Heritage Lottery grant of £30,300 for a new project in Rusholme.

Rusholme: What’s the Story?
Heritage Lottery Fund grant to unlock the stories of Rusholme

Rusholme is an area of historical and cultural significance with unique Victorian heritage, TV and music production-past and the bright lights of the famous ‘Curry Mile’.  The project will capture Rusholme’s diverse cultural history from the 1950's to the present day, celebrating the unique stories and voices of the people that make the spirit of the area: tracing the arrival of new communities, famous residents, festivals and stories. Through a programme of community activities, training opportunities and oral histories, a new community archives will be created by the people of Rusholme including a story book and digital collections.

More to come soon and get in touch for more information.

For further information, please contact:

Rich Browning
Healthy Me Healthy Communities
richbrowning@healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk
07913 540680

www.healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk



Rusholme Film Club and 'Festival of Ideas' update

 

Rusholme Film Club

& Festival of Ideas

 

c/o Creative Rusholme

Manchester

M14

Monday 11th August 2014

 

Dear Members and Residents,

 

The Rusholme Film Club will be returning next month as part of a new project ‘Social and Security’. It will be twice monthly (dates below) with additional activities before the showing. In short ‘Social and Security’ is a project funded by the Clinical Commissioning Groups for improving social connections, increasing community organising and improving wellbeing- with the same old film club!

The Sunday Film Club dates are: September 7th and 21st; October 5th and 19th; November 2nd, 16th and 30th and December 14th.

 

The first showing is on Sunday 7th September, 5pm for 6pm start, and the film will be ‘Jar City’ based upon a novel by the Icelandic crime novelist Indridason: http://bit.ly/VfzF2c

 

Also as part of the Creative Rusholme Network http://bit.ly/1q51GSD  we would like to share plans for the ‘Festival of Ideas’, exploring the many things Rusholme means to many people through film, discussions and workshops. It will take place at various venues around Rusholme 2nd-16th November.

 

So far we have the following events to share and a final programme will be available late September:

 

·         Opening night: ‘Journey of the Universe’ and talk from Dr.Helena Mary Kettleborough, opened by Sir Gerald Kaufman MP.

·         James Baldwin film and discussion with Dr.Douglas Field

·         Digital Media Day supported by Para Archives

·         Imagine Rusholme event

·         Film educational workshops

·         Consultation and planning for a Rusholme Cultural Festival

 

Want to get involved or got some ideas for the festival?

Join the Creative Rusholme Network, share your talents or volunteer helping to make it all happen: blogs, websites, marketing, helping at the events, publicity…and more

 

Please get in touch:

Rich Browning

richbrowning@healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk

07913 540680

 

 

www.healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk



New Enterprise and Training courses starting September

Healthy Me Healthy Communities is delighted to have been successful in securing an ESF Community Learning Grant administered by WEA (North West Region). The funding is for ‘Together We-Can’: a package of social-enterprise and food work training for adults (19+) taking steps to employment or further training.

·         ‘Starting Point’ covers the basics for exploring and starting a social-venture based on the innovative work of Nesta  and UnLtd ‘Rooted’.  

·         ‘Crafterprise’ is for crafty-people helping to turn their talents into small businesses.

·         For the food-minded we have a train the trainer course dedicated to delivering safe and healthy food workshops alongside the RSPH Food Safety certificate.

These free courses will be delivered in Rusholme, Gorton, Beswick, Clayton and Newton Heath.
See below for course dates and contact Rich Browning for more details and how to book today.

 

Summer Family Activities Passport

We have had a great start to our family passport of activities. We have a programme of activities at Fallowfield Children's Centre for happy and healthy families this summer. So far families from around the world have benefited from craft and fitness sessions with lots more to come. Take a look at the map for the family ties around the world.
Also the free trip promotion for families attending the most session is proving a real success for building attendance and involvement.

Next up is the street art workshop and kite-making!

Family Activities for Fallowfield this summer

Healthy Me Healthy Communities are delighted to launch the 'Family Activities Passport' with a programme of great activities and trip for surviving the summer holidays.

All workshops are free and there is a free trip for the families attending the most *conditions apply.

So check out the passport and join us for a happy and healthy family summer!

Pick up your family passport from Fallowfield Children's Centre or tweet @HMHCmcr

www.healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk



Social & Security

activities - coffee - friends - community - film - art

 

Activities and community café space for the over 50s and for everyone at the Birch Community Centre, Brighton Grove, Rushome, M14 5TJ

 

Social & Security is a different type of community space. Everything that happens here is about making a fantastic relaxed and supportive community space to meet-up, un-wind or talk community! It is run by and for its’ members.

·          “Baking away the blues” baking class: for good mood, food and friends

·         “Making a community café” creative craft group

·         Community space for meeting friends, making plans and community organising

·         Community organising workshops and training

·         Rusholme Film Club

For more information contact:

Tel: 07913 540680

Email: richbrowning@healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk

Twitter: @HMHCmcr                   Facebook: Healthy Me Healthy Communities

 

Sunday Social is a community co-produced service by Healthy Me Healthy Communities and Birch Community Centre, funded by the Manchester's Clinical Commissioning  Groups (managed by MACC)

www.healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk

 

2014 Dates

 

Every Friday

12.30 – 3.30pm

From 5th September

 

·        Baking for good mood

·        Community café- space

·        Community Enterprise training

 

Sunday

3-8pm

September 7th and 21st

October 5th and 19th

November 2nd, 16th and 30th

December 14th

 

3-6pm Community café-space and community organising workshops

3.30-5.30pm Creative and Sewing Workshop

6-8pm Rusholme Film Club (free)

 

To help sustain our activities and community-space we levy a small charge of 3p per minute for the time you spend with 'Social & Security' (£1.80 per hour/ maximum charge £3). This includes activities, drinks, snacks and free wi-fi, and of course meeting lots of nice people!

Calling Creative Rusholme!

Creative Rusholme is community-led initiative with the aims to reposition Rusholme as a cultural destination, thus raising the cultural profile of the area, improving the neighbourhood for residents and supporting its economic growth. It was born out of the community organised ‘Imagine Rusholme’ engagement summits. We have compiled a report of the story so far  (please email) and we are inviting creative and cultural residents and partners to a ‘Creative Rusholme’ discussion:

Monday 14^th July, 9 – 10.30am at Active Lifestyles Centre, Level 1, Denmark Road (jcn with Lloyd Street North), M15 6FG. http://bit.ly/Sy3GZN RSVP

So come along and celebrate what has been achieved so far, hear about the exciting new cultural projects for Rusholme, share ideas and work together.

Please get in touch for more info and if you would like to attend the discussion:

Rich Browning

richbrowning@healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk

07913 540680

Kick Starting Summer

It looks like summer has arrived and Healthy Me Healthy Communities has been getting in the festival spirit for adding that feel good factor into your everyday life.

The eating well course at the Anson Community House will help with their street party celebrations with sharing food on Saturday 28^th June – have a great day! The HMHC team are still buzzing from a great few days at the Manchester Mela in Rusholme making South Asian inspired jewellery and accessories – great hobby for relaxing and reflecting.

 

We are proud to be supporting NEPHRA Good Neighbours with their new film clubs with residents of New Moston enjoying the fabulous ‘Saving Mr Banks’ and after film discussion with an amazing cream-tea. Film Clubs are a great way to connect, get together and make new friends.

Healthy Me Healthy Communities has been busy working hard on new projects and we will be soon launching ‘Social and Security’ partnering with the Birch Community Centre in Rusholme – a community-space for reducing isolation and building resourceful communities. Thinking ahead, we have a new programme of enterprise and training courses starting September. More soon on www.healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk and Twitter HMHCmcr.

But back to summer with the Healthy Me Healthy Communities family passport of activities at Fallowfield Children’s Centre with some really fun cooking, creative and craft workshops for happy and healthy Fallowfield families.

 

So let’s toast summer and the start of more great things to come.

www.healthymehealthycommunities.co.uk

[Thanks to our supporters and funders including Equity Foundation, Manchester City Council, European Social Fund / Skills Funding Agency, Manchester Mela, NEPHRA Good Neighbours, People’s Postcode Lottery, Eastland’s Homes]

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Cooking at the Anson Community House

Healthy Me Healthy Communities eating well course is coming to an end. The residents of the Anson Estate have enjoyed 6 workshops at the Anson Community House and learnt new cooking skills, tried new recipes and found out how little changes to your cooking can make a big difference to your wellbeing. Their favourite dishes so far have been the fabulously tasty and healthy sweet potato soup, and the easy to make marine fish-pie. The pie comes it at an amazing 83p per head and its’ full of goodness like omega-3, protein and vitamin C. So get cooking and save some money!

Also Healthy Me Healthy Communities has made a video of the residents in action, making fantastic soups and healthy garlic bread. Watch this space this folks!

Healthy Me Healthy Communities offers a range of eating well workshops and courses with our mobile cookery school.