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Month: January 2017
Opportunity to influence decision making and be involved in real change to health and wellbeing in south Manchester
Would you like the opportunity to work with healthcare and public sector staff, to influence decision making and be involved in real change to health and wellbeing services in south Manchester?
We are looking for patient and voluntary and community sector representatives from across south Manchester to work alongside health and public sector staff to be involved in a Systems Leadership Programme. Running from January to March 2017, this programme is about how we lead and create change across organisational boundaries and with different sectors when we are not necessarily in charge. At the moment, we all struggle to make resources meet demand and were often trying to find solutions on our own to large and complex problems. Systems Leadership aims to bring organisations together in order to achieve better outcomes.
In south Manchester, University Hospital South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Macc (the local voluntary and community sector support organisation for the city of Manchester), Manchester City Council, registered housing providers and VCSE sector colleagues has recently secured a grant of £20,000 from the NHS North West Leadership Academy to develop a Systems Leadership culture among people interested in health, social care and wellbeing in south Manchester.
This programme will launch on Tuesday 24 January 2017 and will involve a series of masterclasses delivered by national and local leaders, exchange visits, shadowing opportunities, reflective learning and more, and will run until the end of March 2017.
The first masterclass on 24 January 2017 will be held from 10am to 4pm in central Manchester and delivered by Debbie Sorkin, National Director of Systems Leadership at The Leadership Centre, followed by lunch and an afternoon workshop to discuss what we have learnt and how we can work together in South Manchester.
The ambition is to foster a new culture where there is a desire by the public sector, housing providers, local authorities, the voluntary and community sector, healthcare providers and patient leaders to work collaboratively and use creative approaches in order to address the shared challenges that are faced across the community in line with the wider transformational programmes in Manchester. The aim is to help create a health care system for the future and redefine what it means to be healthy and live well.
This programme is open to anyone interested in health and wellbeing in south Manchester and we aim to get a great mix of people from across different sectors and from members of the community who access services in south Manchester.
To register your interest and book a place at the January masterclass, please email Helen Walker at helen@macc.org.uk with your name, job title and organisation (if applicable) and why you would like to be involved. Please note that this programme isnt specifically for managers or people already in a formal leadership position. It for anyone willing to work together and make a change.
If you cannot make the first masterclass but would still like to be involved in the programme, please contact Helen. If we receive interest from more than thirty people, we will do our best to make sure that there is equal involvement across sectors and crucially from members of the community that are already accessing services in south Manchester and want to be more involved.
For more information on Systems Leadership, please contact Claire Tomkinson, Macc Wellbeing Development Lead on 0161 834 9823 or at claire@macc.org.uk
Alexandra Park Information Point is now open!
The opening of Alexandra Park Information Point
The Friends of Alexandra Park are opening Chorlton Lodge on a regular basis as an information point, from the 18th January.
Initially the Information Point will be open on Wednesdays and Fridays 11.00am until 2.00pm,.
It will be staffed by “Alexandra Park Ambassadorsâ€, who will be on hand to answer questions about what events are happening in the Park, show people around the exhibitions in the Lodge and to welcome visitors to the Park.
So if you’re passing why not pop in!
We will continue this on Wednesdays and Fridays at the same time, each week, with the aim of supplying information on all subjects that relate to the Park, and to show the Alexandra Park Heritage Groups displays on the history of the Park.
We are asking for volunteers to assist me on these days (minimum of 2 people per day), so would all folks who have shown an interest in becoming a Park Ambassador, and anyone else who would be interested in donating some of their time, please contact me as I have a rota that I can add the volunteers names to, for the days that they would be available. The rota is monthly and runs through to March at the moment.
This is an exciting opportunity for volunteering and learning more about your Park.
The Information Point has a telephone for any enquiries, it also has an answerphone so folks can leave messages too.
The number is 07375 782337.
The Information Point will be open on Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 am – 2 pm.
Regards
Phil Benson-Hannam
Newsletter Editor/Info Point Coordinator
LIVE WELL MAKE ART – GM bid to Great Places
LIVE WELL MAKE ART GM bid to Great Places
Great Places is an Arts Council England initiative which aims to pilot new approaches that enable cultural, community and civic organisations to work more closely together. The Greater Manchester Joint Authority has been short-listed for inclusion in the initiative and is in the process of submitting a bid, which includes building on arts and health work in the city region, paying attention to the principles of arts and health as a social movement. The successful pilot areas are likely to be announced in March 2017.
An important aim in GM bid is to make stronger connections between the arts sector (voluntary and professional arts, and cultural venues), the health sector and people living and working in Greater Manchester. At the end of the Great Places initiative, the intention is that arts activity would be a core element of health planning across GM for the future
Read more: Live Well Make Art newsletter (1)
https://100momentsuk.wordpress.com/
https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2016/08/live-well-make-art
Age-friendly walkabout in Whalley Range…
A community group, Age-Friendly Whalley Range, went for a walk near the Whalley Range Community Forum base to discuss ways in which the streets could become more age-friendly.
Cllr Mary Watson and Patrick Hanfling of Age-Friendly Manchester joined the group in their investigation.