Chorlton Good Neighbours – report for April to June 2020 From March 16th CGN ceased operating as normal due to Covid 19; all on-site activities were suspended and the group decided to offer support to its members and other local older residents through these key areas: Regular Telephone befriending Door checks and chats, socially distancedContinue reading How we responded to Lockdown – April to June 2020
CGN June 2020 Newsletter
CGN June 2020 newsletter How are you doing? Thank goodness for the weather being so great, well until it broke recently. Most of our members seem to be coping really well; creating a routine, trying to keep busy with exercise, cleaning, gardening (for those lucky enough to have a garden) and being a little creative.Continue reading CGN June 2020 Newsletter
Zoom History Talk July 2nd – “The Beatles Before They Were Famous”
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Emma Fox’s talk on the Manchester Bee. It went really well with 28 of us watching and listening to a very interesting talk. The photographs worked wonderfully well and there was time for questions at the end I am hoping to organise these on a monthly basisContinue reading Zoom History Talk July 2nd – “The Beatles Before They Were Famous”
Zoom Talk by Emma Fox on the History of the Manchester Bee
Zoom Talk by Emma Fox on the History of the Manchester Bee June 4th 2020 This talk by Emma Fox broke new ground for CGN in that the History talk this month went out on Zoom as an online video event. Here is a screenshot of some of the 25 participants The talk was aboutContinue reading Zoom Talk by Emma Fox on the History of the Manchester Bee
Paul Slater -sharing memories
Paul Slater One of the local ministers, Sarah Brewerton will be taking a small service to commemorate Paul’s life at some point. She is hoping to collect as many memories of Paul as she can get from the people who came into contact with him in many situations over the years. He was certainly well known atContinue reading Paul Slater -sharing memories
Thursday 4th June History talk by Emma Fox on Manchester Bee
Emma Fox is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting where she will be giving the June History talk about the history of the Manchester Bee Topic: Emma Fox @showmemcr ‘Manchester Bee’ talk for Chorlton Good Neighbours Time: Jun 4, 2020 01:30 PM Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86216084976?pwd=bGVOdnNQQURSSXlIZWF3bEgzY0xrZz09 Meeting ID: 862 1608 4976 Password:Continue reading Thursday 4th June History talk by Emma Fox on Manchester Bee
Chorlton Good Neighbours: Report May 2020
Chorlton Good Neighbours: Report May 2020 We are now settling into a routine of regular shopping for people who have requested that; some are CGN members and others are new to us. Support is needed because people are having to shield (often these are residents under 60 years of age) or stay indoors asContinue reading Chorlton Good Neighbours: Report May 2020
High Sheriff Recognition Award for CGN
A lovely thank you letter was sent by an anonymous member to CGN which is reproduced below. I thanks Helen and all the volunteer helpers for all the support they have given during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis High Sheriff Recognition Award At the same time, we found that someone had taken the trouble to writeContinue reading High Sheriff Recognition Award for CGN
May 2020 Newsletter from Helen
Dear CGN Member How are you doing? I realise it must now be getting very frustrating not being able to get out and about, and catch up with friends and family, but I have been hearing encouraging stories about how many of you have been using Skype, Whatsapp and Zoom etc, as well using theContinue reading May 2020 Newsletter from Helen
Live Performances in Chorlton
Lisa Mather who organised this live performance as part of Events4Covid19 is one of CGN’s volunteers. She rang Helen for ideas of places in Chorlton to take the entertainers to and this this their performance at Ryland House https://www.facebook.com/groups/chorltonm21/permalink/10158579317839459/
Chorlton Good Neighbours, an Update from Helen Hibberd
What’s been happening at CGN in the last month (March 23rd to April 17th). An update from Helen Hibberd, Coordinator The CGN Office: All activities have been suspended. I am working alone in the office, usual hours, and our 3 part time community staff are also doing their hours out in the field. It isContinue reading Chorlton Good Neighbours, an Update from Helen Hibberd
Report on the volunteers training session, 4 March 2020
Volunteer Kevin Duffy reports on the volunteers training session held on 4th March 2020 Helen introduced Debra McCallion as facilitator for the training. With a couple of late arrivals, there were 15 people attending, many of them fairly new to the volunteering role. Everyone briefly introduced themselves. Debra explained that we would be exploring 3 mainContinue reading Report on the volunteers training session, 4 March 2020
Positive Living Group update from Debra
Positive Living Group …trainer Debra McCallion reflects on how participants are coping during lockdown The Positive Living Group are all doing incredibly well despite the challenges they are being faced with. With workshops postponed all were phoned and all were demonstrating a high level of emotional resilience as you would hope! (they have been listeningContinue reading Positive Living Group update from Debra
Positive Living Group’s Lockdown Tips
Chorlton Good Neighbours: Positive Living Lockdown Tips Our life coach Debra has been speaking with 20 of the regular members of the Positive Living Group, to get their ideas on how they are coping with the current situation. Here are the ideas that people have suggested which you may find useful as well. Keep toContinue reading Positive Living Group’s Lockdown Tips
Exercise – 10today and can you spot Bernard
A report by DEMOS (2019) found that 6m older people (55+) are physically inactive and of those 50% are completely inactive, doing no exercise whatsoever. This costs the NHS over £90m per year and lead to a lot of older people having fall and not being able to get out and about in the communityContinue reading Exercise – 10today and can you spot Bernard
