Chorlton Good Neighbours

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 – digging on a very wet April day

We are now trying to clear one end of the allotment to get rid of all the rubble including the remains of an old scout hut base. We’ve ordered the raised beds made from old scaffold boards for us by TRIM timber recycling in Manchester. Once we have cleared the rubble they are our next priority

Bill Williams’ talk on Manchesters Black pre-history

Cracking Good Food’s Hot Pot session

Cracking Good Food’s Hot Pot session at Chorlton Good Neighbours. We made and ate a tradtional Lancashire Beef Hotpot at this cooking demonstration, the latest of a series held at Good Neighbours. We also made a no-cook Chocolate Mousse using silken Tofu. It all tasted delicious!

Wai Yin’s Tai Chi Demonstration

The elders from Wai Yin Women’s Society in Manchester give a Tai Chi demonstration at Chorlton Good Neighbours on April 1st 2012. They even managed to get some in the audience to join in with them

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

Day 2 of the Gardening project

Day 2 of working on the Chorlton Good Neighbours plot in Mancheter UK. Digging over the ground and cutting some branches off a tree that is overhanging the plot. Plenty of stops for cups of tea and some of Keith’s banana cake

The 5 Ways of Wellbeing – what are they?

Manchester City Council Directorate for Adults, Health & Wellbeing now requires all applicants for wellbeing funding for Adult Services to relate to the “5 Ways of Wellbeing” which relate to mental health. As the funding from the Council is important to keeping Good Neighbours going, we decided to ask some of our users and volunteersContinue reading The 5 Ways of Wellbeing – what are they?

Talk on Memory Loss and Dementia

Sally Ferris from Alzheimers UK led an interactive session at Chorlton Good Neighbours Coffee Morning on March 1st 2012. This gives a flavour of her talk, which was excellent

Don’s Exercise Class

Don OConnor’s exercise Class at Chorlton Good Neighbours, Feb 17th 2012. This was the first part of a one hour exercise session, mainly seated, that Don holds every week for people mainly in their 70’s, 80’s and 90’s

Chorlton Good Neighbours User survey

Chorlton Good Neighbours (CGN) is a neighbourhood care group covering the Chorlton, Chorlton Park and Whalley Range areas of South Manchester. It was established in 1967 by local people and has evolved to become a well-established charity offering a range of services to local older people. It currently has over 250 users and 70 volunteers.ThisContinue reading Chorlton Good Neighbours User survey

The Gardening Project gets started

On a lovely, sunny but very cold January morning, we got the Chorlton Good Neighbours gardening project under way. The idea is to reclaim a piece of land next to our offices and make it into a garden, sitting place and vegetable growing area. It will be great for all our users and volunteers, butContinue reading The Gardening Project gets started

Indoor Curling

Indoor game of curling in the Church Hall at Chorlton Good Neighbours, Jan 2012

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: