In July the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham officially opened our new Northmoor Hub and celebrated our 20 years anniversary! We were so happy to celebrate our 20 year history and our new Northmoor Hub with Andy Burnham, our trustees, partners, funders and stakeholders including Manchester City Council, MP Afzal Khan and Councillors Suzanne…
We are so pleased to have our first ‘Healthier Baking’ course back up and running again. This is the fourth Baking course we have run at the centre and is focused on making our favorite baked goods but with a healthy twist. The teacher, Janet, is from the local community and approached us wanting to…
We now have a new logo and branding look thanks to local design agency Tile Creative During lockdown Tile Creative had some spare capacity and wanted to help the community. One of our lovely Trustees, Jordon, made a link with them and we quickly accepted their offer to rebrand. Tile Creative set to work finding…
Macmillan Solutions hold an annual Volunteer Appreciation Event to celebrate the fantastic work that volunteers do in supporting people affected by cancer in their local community. This year, due to Coronavirus, they were unable to hold their planned event, so the staff and Lead Volunteer decided to deliver cakes to their active volunteers who have…
THANK YOU so much to Mummz, the Community Champion of the Tescos Extra in Stretford for your donation. Mummz visited us in November to donate surplus stock, from fabric softener to sweets to biscuits. It’s acts like this that make a big difference to our Community Laundrette Northmoor Community Laundrette is a Social Enterprise, this…
We were approached in August 2018 by Janet Moses (read her story below) who owns a cake baking company in Longsight; she wanted to offer her time to do a beginners baking course at the Community Centre. We thought this was a great idea because we had previously had requests from the local community to…
We at Northmoor Community Association were one of three small charities in Greater Manchester who were selected as 2019 Weston Charity Awards winners; the other two charities were The Greater Manchester Youth Network and The Manchester Men’s Room. We will each receive a core grant of £6,500 from the Garfield Weston Foundation and a year’s…
I was born in Pakistan and moved to the UK 6 years ago and now live in Longsight. I am currently studying in The Manchester College doing computer science as well as working part time. Doing a work placement is part of my course and since December 2018 I have been volunteering 3 hours a…
We received £1000 donation in recognition of our good work in the Next Step project. Scopism Limited, an IT management company, were put in touch with us by Good Things Foundation who is one of the funders of the Next Step project. Scopism hosts Service North, the world’s only Service Integration and Management (SIAM) conference. This…
Today’s winners…. Our chair and founding member of Northmoor Community Association (NCA), David Callicott, won the Community Champion award at the Community Star awards on 9th June. Every year, housing provider Great Places Housing Group gives out Community Stars Awards to recognise the unsung heroes of our communities who help the people and places around…
Today we said farewell to Henry Guthrie at a service in Southern Cemetery in Chorlton. Henry was a well known and loved resident of Northmoor; if he was not at home in Bankside Court he was most likely found having a cup of tea (plus a biscuit) and a chat at Northmoor Community Laundrette. Henry…
Hello there, Over the last few months our volunteers have been engaged in many different activities to support people affected by cancer which include befriending, cleaning, marketing, recording memories, shopping, telephone support, training, helping with transport and celebrating achievements at our Volunteer Event in February. Our Volunteer Appreciation Event was held on Thursday 1st February 2018 7pm-10.30pm…
