Inspire Magazine - Autumn
The Autumn issue of Inspire Magazine is dedicated to employment. Take a look!
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NEWS<br />
Everybody needs good neighbours<br />
A Levenshulme neighbourhood joined together to celebrate International Day of Friendship<br />
in July by transforming their ginnels into creative spaces.<br />
Event organiser Geli Berg explains how she and a team of<br />
willing volunteers helped organise this unusual community<br />
celebration:<br />
“The reason I moved to this area is because it’s very<br />
international, but the thing I didn’t love was all the rubbish<br />
in the ginnels. Most of them are dumps because of people<br />
fly-tipping, so we were trying to figure out how we could<br />
change that.<br />
We run world music events, so we thought why not run<br />
something that celebrates different nationalities and different<br />
artists in the area, using the ginnels as community arts spaces.<br />
It’s been organised via our Facebook page with newsletters<br />
sent out every fortnight to keep people involved.<br />
Michelle Ayavoro, from community arts organisation Herarts,<br />
who was running arts activities in the wellbeing ginnel said:<br />
“Sometimes you can be living a street apart and you don’t<br />
know who lives there. This is a really great way to bring<br />
people together to do activities and you get chatting a bit<br />
more using food, music and arts.”<br />
Interested in setting up a community project in your<br />
area? You will find details of support we can offer<br />
online at www.onemanchester.co.uk/supportopportunities/supporting-communities<br />
The African ginnel is being run by a couple of African<br />
drummers who live on Henderson Street, there’s an<br />
international children’s ginnel, a green and wellbeing ginnel<br />
where you can even get a massage, ‘World of Words’ run<br />
by volunteers looking to set up a mobile library, musicians<br />
of Henderson Street and a ginnel of grannies and grandads<br />
sharing memories and music over cups of tea.<br />
To see little groups of people coming along with their<br />
kids, I’m just thrilled to bits with it.”<br />
Happy 85th birthday!<br />
Community venue The Place at Platt Lane marked its 85th birthday in August with<br />
generations of local people coming together to celebrate its special day.<br />
The celebrations included poetry recitals and stories<br />
of the building’s history from its 1932 beginnings and<br />
through the years as Wilbraham Library, Fallowfield<br />
Cultural Centre, Fallowfield Library and now The Place<br />
at Platt Lane. Archives displayed historic documents<br />
including the very first book borrowed from Wilbraham<br />
Library all those years ago.<br />
Stuart Lynd, a trustee at The Place at Platt Lane, expressed<br />
his delight at the success of the celebrations too: “It was<br />
great to see so many people enjoying themselves, taking<br />
part in the activities and sharing their memories. Events<br />
like this show the value to the community of The Place at<br />
Platt Lane.<br />
Louise Smallwood, who volunteers to help run a Thursday<br />
knitting group shared her thoughts on the library’s<br />
success: “They do an excellent job here. It’s all run by<br />
volunteers and The Place would just fold if it wasn’t for<br />
their hard work. Libraries are very important as people<br />
tend not to read these days, so encouraging them to get<br />
involved is a good thing. If it keeps on going like this, they<br />
could be celebrating one hundred and eighty-five years!”<br />
Fallowfield poet Mike Garry also paid tribute to The Place<br />
which helped to teach him how to read.<br />
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