Maria, 17 volunteered in Next Step from July – September 2021 “I am Maria and I currently go to college with the hopes of studying Dentistry in University soon. I am a local to the area which makes volunteering 10x more rewarding as I get to give back to the community. I found out about…
In July the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham officially opened our new Northmoor Hub and celebrated our 20 years anniversary! We were so happy to celebrate our 20 year history and our new Northmoor Hub with Andy Burnham, our trustees, partners, funders and stakeholders including Manchester City Council, MP Afzal Khan and Councillors Suzanne…
We are so pleased to have our first ‘Healthier Baking’ course back up and running again. This is the fourth Baking course we have run at the centre and is focused on making our favorite baked goods but with a healthy twist. The teacher, Janet, is from the local community and approached us wanting to…
We now have a new logo and branding look thanks to local design agency Tile Creative During lockdown Tile Creative had some spare capacity and wanted to help the community. One of our lovely Trustees, Jordon, made a link with them and we quickly accepted their offer to rebrand. Tile Creative set to work finding…
Macmillan Solutions hold an annual Volunteer Appreciation Event to celebrate the fantastic work that volunteers do in supporting people affected by cancer in their local community. This year, due to Coronavirus, they were unable to hold their planned event, so the staff and Lead Volunteer decided to deliver cakes to their active volunteers who have…
We held two volunteering events that showcased the wide range of volunteering opportunities available in the local area with an aim to enable residents to be more active in their community. Local group Northmoor Together applied and received funding from the Spirit of Manchester Active Communities Fund to put on the events which were to…
THANK YOU so much to Mummz, the Community Champion of the Tescos Extra in Stretford for your donation. Mummz visited us in November to donate surplus stock, from fabric softener to sweets to biscuits. It’s acts like this that make a big difference to our Community Laundrette Northmoor Community Laundrette is a Social Enterprise, this…
18 people came to our first Opportunities Fair held in October 2019 Five Manchester organisations came together to give members of the community one-on-one support with jobs, courses, training, volunteering, job searching, CVs and learning to use the computer. The residents who attended the opportunities fair were between the ages of 19-59 and from Longsight,…
We were approached in August 2018 by Janet Moses (read her story below) who owns a cake baking company in Longsight; she wanted to offer her time to do a beginners baking course at the Community Centre. We thought this was a great idea because we had previously had requests from the local community to…
We at Northmoor Community Association were one of three small charities in Greater Manchester who were selected as 2019 Weston Charity Awards winners; the other two charities were The Greater Manchester Youth Network and The Manchester Men’s Room. We will each receive a core grant of £6,500 from the Garfield Weston Foundation and a year’s…
I was born in Pakistan and moved to the UK 6 years ago and now live in Longsight. I am currently studying in The Manchester College doing computer science as well as working part time. Doing a work placement is part of my course and since December 2018 I have been volunteering 3 hours a…
Wood Street Mission donates FREE books for children We have partnered up with Wood Street Mission to help give children access to books and hopefully develop a love of reading. Wood Street Mission provided a dedicated bookshelf full of books for children aged 0-5. It is proudly located in Northmoor Community Laundrette which is open…