Inspire Magazine - Autumn
The Autumn issue of Inspire Magazine is dedicated to employment. Take a look!
The Autumn issue of Inspire Magazine is dedicated to employment. Take a look!
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PEOPLE<br />
Blooming marvellous<br />
Creative minds in our communities have been encouraging people to get out and get digging<br />
with six gardening projects now thriving within our communities.<br />
Sites at Platt and Worsley Court, City Road, Grierson Street,<br />
Walsden Street, Will Griffiths Court and Winifred Massey<br />
Court have been transformed into blossoming spaces for<br />
green-fingered residents to develop their gardening skills.<br />
Over £5,000 has been contributed by One Manchester<br />
to help convert the previously disused sites into pleasant<br />
green spaces.<br />
The work is in collaboration with Sow the City, a project which<br />
was awarded funding after pitching at one of our Community<br />
Soup events. To help sow the seeds of team spirit, local<br />
companies have volunteered their staff’s time to cultivate the<br />
land, with Siemens recently supplying 44 staff to work on two<br />
of the gardens.<br />
Kieron McGlasson, lead gardener with Sow the City, explained<br />
their motivation for getting involved with the projects:<br />
“Our mission is to create a healthier city where everyone<br />
can grow their own food. People are meeting and getting<br />
exercise; they’re outdoors and in touch with nature and that’s<br />
therapeutic.”<br />
One of the people harvesting the benefits of their local<br />
community garden is Sandra, a One Manchester tenant living<br />
near the City Road site:<br />
“The main thing for me was to grow my own food. I think the<br />
garden is great, I come here every day if it’s not raining! I was<br />
born in Hulme in 1974 and when I was growing up everybody<br />
knew everybody, and I think projects like this are helping to<br />
regain a sense of that community spirit.”<br />
If you would like to get involved in community projects,<br />
or fancy improving your gardening skills, contact our<br />
Customer Involvement team on 0161 230 1013 or email<br />
customerinvolvement@onemanchester.co.uk<br />
Would you like to choose where funding is awarded in your community?<br />
Community Soup is back and taking place in the last week of October at venues across Manchester. Listen to the pitches from<br />
local community groups and organisations, with musical entertainment and tasty hot food provided, and then cast your vote.<br />
South Central Mcr<br />
Monday 23 October<br />
6.30pm-8pm<br />
Church of God of Prophecy<br />
300 Moss Lane East<br />
Moss Side<br />
M14 4SS<br />
South East Mcr<br />
Tuesday 24 October<br />
6.30pm-8pm<br />
Gorton Community Centre<br />
Highmead Street,<br />
Gorton<br />
M18 8PE<br />
South Mcr<br />
Wednesday 25 October<br />
6.30pm-8pm<br />
Birch Community Centre<br />
Brighton Grove<br />
Rusholme<br />
M14 5JT<br />
East Mcr<br />
Thursday 26 October,<br />
6.30pm-8pm<br />
Roundhouse<br />
1328-1330 Ashton Old Road<br />
Openshaw<br />
M11 1JG<br />
0330 355 1002 75