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.
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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!
