Andy Burnham comes to Northmoor Community in Longsight and opens 'Northmoor Hub'
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Andy Burnham comes to Northmoor Community in Longsight and opens 'Northmoor Hub'

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…

Our Healthier Baking course has started in the Community Centre!

Our Healthier Baking course has started in the Community Centre!

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…

Appreciation for the Macmillan Solutions Volunteers

Appreciation for the Macmillan Solutions Volunteers

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…

Volunteering Events full of local opportunities for the community
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Volunteering Events full of local opportunities for the community

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…

Tescos donate to our Northmoor Community Laundrette
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Tescos donate to our Northmoor Community Laundrette

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…

Longsight community gain confidence and skills in Beginners Baking Course

Longsight community gain confidence and skills in Beginners Baking Course

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…

Proud to be a Manchester charity to win Garfield Weston Foundation award

Proud to be a Manchester charity to win Garfield Weston Foundation award

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…