The Outreach Singers are a group of Manchester University Music Society students who aim to engage with local communities through singing. A group of eight students came to sing Christmas Carols to Chorlton Good Neighbours at the Thursday coffee morning on December 2nd 2021, Here is a selection of the carols they sang. including “Ding,Continue reading Manchester University Music Society students sing Carols at CGN
“Coming home for Christmas” Good Neighbours Drama Group
CGN drama group have been practising their short sketch “Coming home for Christmas” which is set in a department store. The group will be performing on Thursday 12th December at the final Coffee morning of the year, and will be joined by the CGN Melodics to round off with some festive songs and carols. SomeContinue reading “Coming home for Christmas” Good Neighbours Drama Group
Coffee Morning Activities – visitors, paintings and actors
Thursday coffee mornings continue to be a really enjoyable weekly event for us all, as well as provide an opportunity for a range of visitors to come and join us. In October we had student nurses come to find out about what a community group does. Dawn Harris , the local Health Development Co OrdinatorContinue reading Coffee Morning Activities – visitors, paintings and actors
Christmas is coming at CGN…
Christmas time…..and a lot of events at CGN Decorating the hall with window displays. Marianne, Sue and Susan did a marvellous job creating festive window displays …. The Christmas party on Sunday 2nd December saw 65 of our older users come together to enjoy food, bingo, pass the parcel, quiz, and entertainment from the Chorlton UkeleleContinue reading Christmas is coming at CGN…
Useful information and updates Feb/March 2018
Chorlton Good Neighbours: useful information and updates Feb/March 2018 Thursday coffee mornings; 10-11.30am : 1st March : Hear to help colleague Diane Whitehead here to check hearing aids and give new batteries, clean moulds and give advice . Please just turn up on the first Thursday of each month. Nurse Eileen Kendrick will be hereContinue reading Useful information and updates Feb/March 2018
Oswald Rd school gives Good Neighbours a Community Hero Award
Yesterday (07-02-18) Helen Hibberd, the Good Neighbours Coordinator, went into Oswald rd school as the children wanted to present a Community Hero Award to CGN for all the good work that everyone involved in the charity does. Here is a photo of Helen with some of the children and their comments about why CGN deservesContinue reading Oswald Rd school gives Good Neighbours a Community Hero Award
Pharmacy students visit coffee morning
Thursday 2nd November coffee morning saw 7 pharmacy students now in their pre registration year with Boots, come along to carry out various activities with our older people. The students were looking at bone health and offered simple advice . This included simple exercises, guessing the percentage levels of Vitamin D in certain foods and givingContinue reading Pharmacy students visit coffee morning
Coffee Morning and Snooker
Here are some photos of the snooker afternoon on 3-02-15 and from the coffee monring of 12-02-15. These are two of Chorlton Good Neighbour’s weekly activities on Tuesdays (snooker) and Thursdays (coffe morning). The photos whihc have been produced as a slideshow were taken by CGN volunteer Keith Walsh Alice who is a student atContinue reading Coffee Morning and Snooker
Manchester Jewish History Walk
Manchester Jewish History Walk, Thurs Aug 29th 2013 12 of us from the Chorlton Good neighbours History Group talk a walk down Cheetham Hill Road led by Bill Williams, to discover the history of the Jewish community in Manchester. Starting outside Chethams school of music, in Long Millgate and ending at the Jewish History museumContinue reading Manchester Jewish History Walk
MMU Design Lab Students return visit
MMU Design Lab Student Gemma Latham and two of her colleagues, visited Chorlton Good Neighbours to report back on their ‘creating an age-friendly city’ project. They talked to people atr the coffee morning on 26th April and showed them Annabel’s lamp. This is a visual representation of the concerns and memories of older people inContinue reading MMU Design Lab Students return visit
Gardening project – learning about soil testing
The Chorlton Good Neighbours gardening project continues. Several of us are taking a course at Hulme Community Garden. This week was about soil, testing it and composting. We also did some work on the plots, crunching up branches to make compost
Thank you letter from Brookburn pupil
In November 2012, members of Chorlton Good Neighbours visited Brookburn Primary School, Chorlton to talk to the year 6 students about what it was like being in Chorlton during and after World War 2. We received a lot of thank you letters from the children which were terrific. Here is one of them:
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