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Incredible transformation! Almost there – just some finishing touches to go!
Posted by Generate our Kitchen on Friday, June 21, 2019
We're nearly there!!! Fantastic work from Gary and Rik Moores of Moores Maintenance…just a few weeks to go before this amazing transformation is complete! ????
Posted by Generate our Kitchen on Thursday, June 6, 2019
Work in progress…We're nearly there!!! Fantastic work from Gary and Rik Moores of Moores Maintenance…just a few weeks to go before this amazing transformation is complete! ????
Posted by Generate our Kitchen on Friday, June 7, 2019
Food has always been a very important aspect of our work in terms of bringing people together, cook and eat: we have produced cookery guides and recipe books: our under 12 cookery class appeared on Ready Steady Cook!
We love Whalley Range and talked to residents about what they want – and this is what they said:
Cookery lessons, Meal budgeting advice, Catering courses, Cook & Taste sessions, Community Meals
Healthy meal ideas, Cheap nutritious meal plans, Heritage & ESOL food courses, Intergenerational cooking
Learning about vitamins & food sources, Healthy nutritious meals for one, Family cooking sessions,
With a fully accessible professional kitchen we know we could meet these priorities – and more!
Since 1998 we have been based at the JNR8 Youth & Community Centre – the leased community rooms of
Manley Park Church – providing a range of inclusive projects for our richly diverse community.
There are 2 main charitable organisations based here.
Whalley Range Community Forum (WRCF) sources funding and facilitates daytime activities for the community and a weekly social and cooking group for people experiencing mental ill health.
Whalley Range Youth Opportunities Association (WRYOA) runs an evening Youth Club and holiday play schemes.
The Church has made major improvements over the past years: a new hall floor, energy efficient boiler and new double glazed windows and doors. WRCF has sourced funding for furniture, laptops and storage for the many groups who provide activities/classes.
We have decided to all come together to fundraise for a new professional, accessible kitchen to improve health & wellbeing. We named our project: Generate our Kitchen – as our building – JNR8 – is pronounced Generate!
With one part-time member of staff and a voluntary committee for WRCF and WRYOA – along with fantastic teams of volunteers and sessional youth workers – we are the only local centre serving the community with activities for all ages and cultures, providing crisis support and celebrating the area by bringing people together to improve mental and physical health and wellbeing and raising aspirations.
Help reduce isolation by providing social groups,
Encourage people to engage with others: Coffee mornings, Afternoon Tea, Support groups
Improve employability and confidence/self-esteem building
Provide ESOL support with English speaking and writing
Provide basic and improvers computer skills with internet access
Run Work clubs and Computer classes
Provide Youth provision and Play schemes including Duke of Edinburgh Award, Girls Night
Promote Healthy eating Health & Wellbeing and Fitness classes
Reduce the stigma around mental ill health
Provide crisis support including Hate Crime reporting centre and Foodbank voucher distribution
Thai Boxing
Tai Chi
Women Health
Age-friendly
Child Friendly
Hate Crime Awareness and International Women Day events
Debates
Book and film launches
Babies & toddlers groups
Meetings
Advice sessions
Something for the youngest to the oldest, the Celebrate festival at our community centre – along with a wide range of other activities for everyone of all ages in our richly diverse community!
We love living in Whalley Range and as a Community Forum we have talked to residents about what they want!
The JNR8 Youth & Community Centre is the base for the Whalley Range Community Forum, Whalley Range Youth Opportunities Association Whiz Youth Project, Celebrate, Age-friendly Whalley Range & Chorlton and Whalley Range Mental Health & Wellbeing.
We lease the building from Manley Park Methodist Church from Monday to Friday providing a range of classes, events and activities including an evening week-day youth club and holiday play for children.
On Friday evenings the volunteer-led wellbeing group Time to Change meet up offering support and removing the stigma around mental ill health by running a social group with pool, music, Tai Chi, bike repairs and to prepare, cook and eat a meal together.
The Church provides regular fundraising coffee mornings and soup lunches for the community and they let the building out on Saturday evenings to Youth on Solid Ground for their weekly youth club.
Our groups love to cook and want to promote and share cooking and eating together to reduce isolation, improve skills and employability and to improve their health.
We could provide so much more if our currently inadequate and practically unusable kitchen was updated and fit for purpose!
Representatives of the groups who share the building are applying for funding under the banner
Generate our Kitchen
Please could you help us by completing our survey to support our request for funding?
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5P3BN82
The survey is anonymous but you can add your details if you are interested in getting involved.
Visit the Age-friendly and well-being marquee to read more and to collect a hard copy of the survey.
Thanks for your support!
Email us at generateourkitchen@gmail.com to get involved
The JNR8 (pronounced ‘Generate) Youth & Community Centre is the weekly base for the Whalley Range Community Forum, Whalley Range Youth Opportunities Association (WRYOA) Whiz Youth Project, Celebrate, Age-friendly Whalley Range & Chorlton and Whalley Range Mental Health & Wellbeing.
The JNR8 centre is a fantastic community resource – and we run a wide range of activities during the week for all ages, including ESOL, fitness, confidence building and social and self-help groups for people to come together to reduce isolation/encourage participation and friendships.
Cookery has always been a big part of our community engagement at JNR8 (our under 12 group even featured on Ready Steady Cook!) and we have a long history of providing community meals and food projects including the Food 4 Us cookery toolkit, Heritage cookery projects and intergenerational recipe sharing.
We are currently fundraising to improve our kitchen – as many of our cookery and nutrition classes have had to be put on hold as the kitchen is not fit for purpose.
Our exciting plan is to access funding to turn our current inadequate facilities into a professional kitchen so we can resume all the regular classes – and provide so much more!
We run a work club under the banner Generating Opportunities: a professional kitchen will enable us to provide catering, cooking and nutrition classes to improve skills and employability and projects that use cookery to improve English
In addition we want to resume our shared community meals – such as the successful Come 4 Tea, Festive Feasts and share recipes from around the world.
The Building is lovely – fantastic multi-use hall, storage for our projects, a chill out room, an IT room for computer beginners and improvers, a classroom for learning, teaching, presenting, planning and meeting.
Now look at our existing kitchen…
October 2017
** IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CUSTOMERS **
During the next few weeks you may notice a few changes within your Jobcentre
These changes may include temporary changes to your work coach, the layout of the jobcentre and you being asked a few more questions when you attend about your digital skills.
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All of these things are to prepare for
Wednesday 25th October 2017
when we will become a UNIVERSAL CREDIT FULL SERVICE Jobcentre.
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The way the Department of Work & Pensions delivers its services to claimants has been gradually changing as part of the Government Welfare to Work programme.
As part of those changes all our customers will need to make sure they can access the new online Digital Service to complete their claims online and notify of us of changes to their circumstances.
You will be notified by letter of when the changes will affect you.
If you are familiar with using digital online services, i.e. you have an up to date email account which you use regularly, shop or bank online then you will have no problem following the changes to claiming or contacting the Jobcentre via the new online service.
IF YOU ARE NOT CONFIDENT WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE THEN YOU WILL NEED TO CONTACT YOUR WORK COACH AND ASK FOR HELP ON WHAT TO DO NEXT.
FAILURE TO DO SO COULD RESULT IN YOU HAVING DIFFCULTY IN CLAIMING OR ACCESSING YOUR BENEFITS.
You will have an online Universal Credit account to manage your claim. You can use your account to report changes, send messages to your work coach and find support.
Eventually all claims will be on the full service and you will have a Universal Credit online account.
The Team
Alex Park Jobcentre
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خلال الأسابيع القليلة المقبلة قد تلاØظ بعض التغييرات داخل مركز العمل الخاص بك.
قد تشمل هذه التغييرات تغييرات مؤقتة على مدرب العمل الخاص بك، وتخطيط مركز.
العمل وكنت يطلب بعض الأسئلة أكثر عند Øضور Øول المهارات الرقمية الخاصة بك.
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كل هذه الأمور هي للتØضير
الأربعاء 25 أكتوبر 2017
عندما Ø³Ù†ØµØ¨Ø Ù…Ø±ÙƒØ² كريديت كامل خدمة مركز العمل.
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والطريقة التي تقدم بها إدارة العمل والمعاشات خدماتها للمطالبين تتغير تدريجيا كجزء من برنامج الرعاية الاجتماعية للعمل.
وكجزء من هذه التغييرات، سيتعين على جميع عملائنا التأكد من إمكانية وصولهم إلى الخدمة الرقمية الجديدة عبر الإنترنت لاستكمال مطالباتهم عبر الإنترنت وإخطارنا بالتغييرات التي تطرأ على ظروÙهم.
سيتم إعلامك بكتاب عندما التغييرات سو٠تؤثر عليك.
إذا كنت معتادا على استخدام الخدمات الرقمية عبر الإنترنت، بمعنى أن لديك Øساب بريد إلكتروني Ù…Øدث تستخدمه بشكل منتظم أو تسوقه أو تتعامل معه عبر الإنترنت، Ùلن تواجهك أية مشكلة بعد إجراء تغييرات على المطالبة أو الاتصال بمركز العمل عبر الخدمة الجديدة عبر الإنترنت.
إذا لم تكن متأكدا من أي مما سبق سو٠تØتاج إلى الاتصال بك العمل كوتش وطلب المساعدة على ما يجب القيام به المقبل.
الÙشل ÙÙŠ القيام بذلك قد يؤدي إلى أن يكون لديك صعوبة ÙÙŠ المطالبة أو الوصول إلى المناÙع الخاصة بك.
سيكون لديك Øساب ائتمان عالمي عبر الإنترنت لإدارة مطالبتك.
يمكنك استخدام Øسابك للإبلاغ عن التغييرات، وإرسال رسائل إلى مدرب العمل الخاص بك.
والعثور على الدعم ÙÙŠ نهاية المطا٠جميع المطالبات ستكون على الخدمة الكاملة وسيكون لديك Øساب الائتمان العالمي على الانترنت.
الÙريق
أليكس بارك مركز العمل
** **اطلاعات مهم مشتریاند
چند Ù‡Ùته آینده ممکن است چندین تغییر در مرکز شغلی شما مشاهده شود.این تغییرات ممکن است شامل تغییرات موقتی به مربی کار شما، Ø·Ø±Ø Ù…Ø±Ú©Ø² کار Ùˆ همچنین سوالاتی باشد Ú©Ù‡ شما در مورد مهارت های دیجیتالی خود به آنها مشغول هستید.
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همه اینها برای آماده شدن آماده
استچهارشنبه 25 اکتبر 2017
هنگامی که ما تبدیل به یک مرکز خدمات کامل خدمات اعتباری UNIVERSAL می شود.
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راهکارهایی Ú©Ù‡ وزارت کار Ùˆ Øقوق بازنشستگی آن را ارائه Ù…ÛŒ دهد، خدمات به متقاضیان است به تدریج به عنوان بخشی از برنامه رÙاهی دولت برای کار در Øال تغییر است.
به عنوان بخشی از این تغییرات، مشتریان ما باید اطمینان Øاصل کنند Ú©Ù‡ Ù…ÛŒ توانند به سرویس جدید دیجیتال آنلاین دسترسی داشته باشند تا ادعاهای خود را به صورت آنلاین تکمیل کنند Ùˆ از تغییرات در شرایط آنها مطلع شوند.
شما از طریق نامه اعلام می کنید که تغییرات.
شما را تØت تاثیر قرار دهداگر با استÙاده از سرویس های آنلاین دیجیتال آشنا هستید، به عنوان مثال شما دارای Øساب ایمیل روزانه خود هستید Ú©Ù‡ به طور منظم، Ùروشگاه یا
بانک آنلاین را استÙاده Ù…ÛŒ کنید Ùˆ پس از تغییرات به ادعای یا تماس با مرکز شغلی از طریق.
اگر شما با هیچ کدام از موارد Ùوق مواÙÙ‚ نباشید، باید با شما تماس بگیرید Ùˆ درخواست کنید Ú©Ù‡ Ú†Ù‡ کاری انجام دهید.
ناکامی در انجام چنین کاری ناشی از عدم وجود مزایا و مزایای شما است.
برای اداره ادعای شما یک Øساب اعتباری آنلاین جهانی خواهید داشت.شما Ù…ÛŒ توانید از Øساب خود برای گزارش تغییرات، ارسال پیام به مربی کار خود Ùˆ پیدا کردن پشتیبانی استÙاده کنید.
در نهایت تمام ادعاها در سرویس کامل خواهند بود و شما یک اعتبار آنلاین اعتباری جهانی خواهید داشت.
تیممرکز
تجارت الکس پارک
Term time Thursdays – back in November!
Volunteer Centre Manchester provides information, support and training to Manchester residents who want to volunteer.
We also support Manchester based organisations who want to recruit volunteers, need help and advice to develop new roles, introduce/update policies and procedures or have a training need.
Volunteering and Benefits – If you are receiving state benefits you are still allowed to volunteer. This guidance gives an overview of what you need to know before you start volunteering.
https://www.manchestercommunitycentral.org/volunteer-centre-manchester/i-want-volunteer
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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://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2016/08/live-well-make-art
Whalley Range on Wheels comprises a band of committed volunteers who have worked tirelessly over the last 18 months to make Alexandra Park in South Manchester a real hive of cycling activity.
Project co-ordinator Eve Holt has made it possible for hundreds of people to get on their bikes, with regular activities and events for the whole family, including adults learning to ride for the first time, improver sessions for rusty returners, road training, bike maintenance workshops and social rides.
Cycling UK Trustee Welna Bowden, Chair of the Awards Committee, said: “People attend the sessions come rain or shine and the atmosphere is always positive and welcoming.
“A small group of volunteer mechanics has helped bring donated bikes back to life so that some participants now have their own bike.
“The project has grown through word of mouth and with there being a physical presence in the park. It an excellent example of fluid working across organisations with volunteers working alongside Transport for Greater Manchester and Manchester Parks services.
“Whalley Range on Wheels is exactly the sort of project that can make a real difference.â€
Project co-ordinator Eve said: “The appetite from local people has been wonderful. People of all ages and backgrounds come to the sessions and both participants and volunteers alike talk about the impact it has on their wellbeing and lives.
“Thanks to the Big Bike Revival, we have been able to revive 40 second-hand bikes over the summer, some from out of skips, and give them to Manchester asylum seekers who have been attending our regular Monday sessions so they can #ridefree.
“We are all looking forward to a celebratory ride along the Fallowfield loop on 17 October followed by a Spooky kidicalmass ride for families on 30 October. Happy bikes make for happy people and a happy planet.â€
Onna Bike offers free weekly sessions for the local community in Bradford, with the aim of teaching people to ride and improve skills. The club has developed strong links with Belle Vue Girls School and facilitated a project which has resulted in 180 girls undertaking cycle training and reaching Bikeability Levels 1 and 2.
The project enabled 90 girls – at two events – to participate in cycling activities which included Bikeability training, bike maintenance, making smoothies (using a bike to power the motor) and also having a go on cycling rollers provided by the Cycling UK-affiliated Otley Cycle Club.
The project was made possible through funding from Cycling UK, the support of WYCA City Connect and collaboration with a number of organisations, including Zara Sports Centre and Bradford Council Bikeability Scheme co-ordinated by Aubrey Cooper.
Welna said: “The pilot was hugely successful, creating a buzz of excitement and resulting in the project being rolled out across all the remaining 800-plus students at the school.
“Onna Bike also established links with OnTrak, receiving 20 refurbished bikes, and was able to donate the bikes at no cost to the girls attending the cycling project.
“That was particularly important given that a vast number of students are unable to buy or access a bike, as they live in a socially deprived area where finances are strained.
“Although the club is in its infancy, it has made a promising start to what should be an amazing journey of discovery and adventure.â€
Onna Bike, founded by Mumtaz Khan, runs weekly cycling sessions with fellow cycling coach Andrew Gray, at Zara Sports Centre, next to Belle Vue Girls School, on Saturdays from 6.00-7.15pm, followed by a ride for more confident cyclists.
Mumtaz said: “Cycling is becoming very popular in Bradford and for people just starting out, or for those who enjoy cycling at a more leisurely pace, mainstream cycling clubs can seem quite daunting. Onna Bike offers an alternative which appeals to novice and intermediate riders.â€
The Belle Vue girls also attended an informative and humorous presentation by round-the-world cyclist Reece Gledhill. They were then given the task of developing their own expedition, focusing on the countries that they would like to visit – with Dubai, Jamaica, Japan and Australia coming out as hot favourites.
Samantha Crabtree, a member of the Belle Vue Girls School staff, commented: “All of our Year 10 girls have now completed the Level 1 Bikeability Award and the majority the Level 2 Award. The girls have thoroughly enjoyed the experience and with the help of the professional instructors have developed better and safer cycling habits.
“Some of the girls had never ridden a bike before and many do not have the opportunity to cycle, but the course has made them more comfortable and confident in the saddle.
“The opportunity for some of them to then take away a bike at the end of the course has been a great incentive and will hopefully encourage more girls to cycle to school or in their free time.
“Cycling is a great way for the girls to get around, get some exercise and reduce the amount of time spent stuck in a car or on the bus and socialise with their friends.â€
Belle Vue Headteacher Mary Copeland said: “It has been a great opportunity for one year to take part in this project – not only learning a skill for now and the future, but also exploring sustainability and environmental issues important to today society.â€
Whalley Range on Wheels and Onna Bike received their awards at the Cycling UK Members Get Together in Manchester on Saturday (8 October). Making the presentation was transport campaigner Caroline Russell, London Assembly Member and national transport spokesperson for the Green Party of England and Wales.
Manchester Community Cycle Group in Alexandra Park
Whalley Range on Wheels comprises a band of committed volunteers who are working tirelessly to make Alexandra Park in South Manchester a real hive of cycling activity.
Over the last two years the group has engaged with over three thousand local residents helping more people to experience the joy, independence and wellbeing a bike can bring.
For adults
Regular activities take place every Monday in the park with learn to ride sessions, road training, improver sessions for rusty returners and social rides taking place 9.30-11.30 and 12-2.00pm, supported by instructors from Transport for Greater Manchester. Volunteer mechanics are also on hand to help keep the fleet in good working order and help people to get their bikes fixed and to learn basics of good bike maintenance. Monthly Women in the Workshop bike maintenance training, for both beginners and improvers, run throughout the year on Saturday afternoons.
For kids
Kid cycling sessions after school on a Monday between 3.30pm and 5pm have proved very popular so the club is looking for ways to run more in partnership with the PushPedalScoot project run by BikeRight! Futures CIC.
For the whole family
Throughout the year the group organises cycling themed events for the whole family often in collaboration with other local groups. Through a series of Big Bike Revival events, supported by Cycling UK, held across Moss Side, Hulme and Whalley Range, more than 200 bikes were revived. Many had been gathering dust in people sheds and back gardens. In conjunction with Manchester City of Sanctuary they also helped 50 asylum seekers to get riding and to then #ridefree by fixing up 2nd hand bikes donated from the police, general public and retrieved from skips.
For Halloween, the group supported a spooky kidical mass ride from the park along the Fallowfield loop. 50 people of all ages participated. Further events are planned for the winter period including a light your bike up like a xmas tree ride on 17 December.
Project co-ordinator, Eve Holt, a resident in Whalley Range, cycling instructor and campaigner, is clear that everyone is welcome. “People attend the sessions come rain or shine and the atmosphere is always positive and welcoming. The appetite from local people has been wonderful. People of all ages and backgrounds come to the sessions and both participants and volunteers alike talk about the impact it has on their wellbeing and lives. Happy bikes make for happy people and a happy planet. â€
Whalley Range on Wheels recently received an award from Cycling UK in recognition of their work.
More info:
Regular sessions in Alexandra Park are free and are run as an open drop in. No booking needed. All equipment provided. We meet in the car park off Russell Street, M16 7JL (behind tennis courts) at 9.30am and 12 midday. Kids sessions then start at 3.30pm and 4.15pm (all children must be supervised). For details of other events, workshops and activities coming up see Facebook page or Whalley Range on Wheels. Donations of bikes, equipment, money, skills and time always appreciated. Project co-ordinator can be contacted at eve@happencic.org or 07812 157761
