Age-friendly Active Ageing Survey
Age-friendly Whalley Range And Chorlton would like to put on some taster sessions at the Alexandra Park celebration in September.
What would you be interested in?
Please see the suggested activities for taster sessions below – or let us know about your own ideas!
Tai Chi
Bird watching
Walking
Fitness sessions
Memory Collecting
See the link to the printable survey here: Active Ageing Survey
PDF version here: Active Ageing Survey
Please return the survey to the lodge in the park or to
JNR8 Community Centre,
82 Cromwell Avenue,
Whalley Range
M16 0BG
Contact Chris at agefriendlywhalleyrange@gmail.com
or call 881 3744 to join our age-friendly mailing list.
Photographs from our volunteer photographers who captured the fantastic atmosphere of the 20th Whalley Range ‘Celebrate’ festival.
Our theme this year: The Heart of Whalley Range.
Filmed by Andrew Thompson
Loren Grant of Foodwiser gave a presentation about food and nutrition: Foods to Remember – how food and lifestyle can help protect you from memory loss and dementia.
We were also really happy to welcome the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Carl Austin-Behan to the event to welcome everyone and to talk about the great work volunteers are doing in communities across Manchester – and of course to pose for photographs with everyone!
A huge ‘Thank You’ to Trina, Andrea and Roger for all your help – and Una and Lotte for pampering and the bag-making workshop.
The Lead Station provided a delicious St Patrick’s Day themed lunch of Irish potato & chive soup and a selection of sandwiches including Guinness braised beef and Irish cheddar ploughmans… and our host – Scheme Manager Gloria Thompson – provided lots of tea and coffee, cake and biscuits!
Age-friendly Whalley Range & Chorlton is a local network and steering group aiming to support and engage with residents, to promote healthy ageing and access to information.
After the event Gloria said:
“Residents who attended are still buzzing about the information they received, the food and the visit of the Lord Mayor.
Comments about the event include, “The presentation on nutrition was excellentâ€. “I learned so muchâ€. “I would attend the event againâ€. “It great to see our lounge used for an event like thisâ€. “The person who did the hand massage even told me about oils that can help me sleep betterâ€.
See some more of the photos from the event below.
Thanks to our Age-friendly photographer Anthony Morris – who has an exhibition of his photographs in Chorlton library from 3rd-29th of April.
The first volume of the club history is now available. It is A4, 200+ pages long, lots of photos etc, and retails for £20, but is just £10 to current members. Copies are available from the club when there is access to the bar.
To buy mail order, please send cheque for ££20 inc p&p made payable to Whalley Range CC, and address it to Mike Hill c/o WRC & LTC, Kingsbrook Road, M16 8NR. Please remember to include your postal address.
Two England cricket captains, three Olympians, a famous music composer, a sprinkling of county cricketers, international rugby players, a prolific author, a renowned amateur astronomer, and the cream of the country lacrosse players are just a few of the stars who have graced the club from Whalley Range down the years.
One of the oldest clubs in the area, with cricket dating back to 1845 and tennis first staged in 1881, Whalley Range truly boasts a most colourful and illustrious pedigree, and this volume charts the first 100 years, from its early existence on College Road, its brief tenure at Hough End, through to its current residence on Kingsbrook Road, where it benefited from a rich influx of talent from the nearby William Hulme Grammar School.
The book is as much a social history of this area of Manchester as a sports book and recounts the many ups and downs and the devastating heartbreak caused by the wars, as well as stunning performances, record scores, and regular appearances at Old Trafford.
The JNR8 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…
MONDAY…
Monday 10 -11:30pm
Male/Female Residents with low-level English
Monday 1:30-2:30
Local residents, all ages + abilities
TUESDAY…
Tuesday 10-11am
Women with low-level English skills
Tuesday 11-am
Women with low-level English skills: access to free online practice ESOL courses
Tuesdays from 1-3pm on
April 25th, May 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th & June 6th 2017
Jobseekers and people moving from benefits and back into Work, Training and Volunteering
WEDNESDAY…
Weds 10-11am
Wednesdays 2-3pm
Age-friendly Whalley Range: www.whalleyrange.org/category/agefriendly/
Local older residents, community events, older people food project, newsletter,
THURSDAY…
Basic Computer class 10-11am
Job search workshop 11-1pm
Thursdays 10-1pm
Local jobseekers
FRIDAY…
Come along to a free, volunteer led, self help mental wellbeing group.
Offering:
• Music, Art
• Pool and table tennis
• Tai Chi
• Food
• Good Company
It has been the highlight of my week
Wellbeing group member
www.whalleyrange.org/whalley-range-mental-health-group/
www.whalleyrange.org/third-party-hate-crime-reporting-centres/
