Browsing all posts in October, 2009.

Animal Magic

Two young volunteers from Wythenshawe Community Farm blazed a trail at this summer’s agricultural shows.
Between them they won over twenty rosettes, including special awards for young handlers.
At the beginning of the season Pete Hampson and Cameron Fuller, both aged seventeen, were each given a heifer to look after from the Farm’s speciality Hereford [...]

Manager Of The Year

Several members of staff at Newall Green High School were nominated for consideration at the Manchester City Council’s Childrens’ Services Awards for Excellence and were invited to receive their certificates at the ceremony. Senior Manager at the school, Sandra Maguire who won the award for ‘Manager of the Year’, said “I am delighted to receive this award.  [...]

Insight Into Construction

YEAR eight and nine students at the Manchester Health Academy were given a lively and detailed insight into all aspects of opportunities in the construction industry by the ‘Theatreand’ company.
Richard Hoyle, Constance Oak and Ryan Cerenko gave the students their own version of the infrastructure, entry routes to the many and varied career opportunities [...]

Road Safety For Older People

Manchester City Council has been awarded funding of £500,000 to increase road safety measures for older people across Manchester.
The grant was given by the Department for Transport (DfT) under the Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan and is being used to specifically to help stop collisions involving the over 60s.
Tuffley Road at the junction with Firbank [...]

Forum Success

Wythenshawe Forum Leisure Centre has been awarded a Quest Accreditation at the first attempt.  The Centre achieved a 78% ‘Highly Commended’ mark which places it in the top 20% of highest performing indoor leisure centres in the country.
Manchester City Council led the £19m redevelopment of The Forum Centre which was completed in 2004 and [...]

Family First

Manchester City Council is about to celebrate the important role that parents play in the lives of their children with a whole host of free activities designed to help families flourish as part of its first ever Parent’s Week.

The week, which runs from Saturday 17th October, coincides with National Family Learning Week and also the [...]

Training Partnership Takes Off

A training initiative aimed at boosting the skills of Manchester Airport workers has seen its official launch at Terminal 2.
Details of the new ‘Airport Learn’ programme were unveiled as representatives of Trafford College, airport employers and Trade Unions gathered for the opening of the Airport Learn Centre by Andrew Cornish, Managing Director for Manchester [...]

Academy Time Capsule

The Manchester Enterprise Academy held its official opening ceremony with students marking the occasion by sealing items in a time capsule, not to be seen again for a hundred years.
600 students of the academy heard from Andrew Cornish, Managing Director of Manchester Airport, and Marie Quayle, their new Principal, about the direction the new [...]

Changing Church Rooms

Local building and maintenance company Rok has given St Luke’s Church in Wythenshawe a makeover as part of its commitment to ‘giving something back’ to the local communities where it operates.
The ‘Rok Community Challenge’ involved donating the time of the company’s trades people and team leaders who carried out repairs and refurbished areas of [...]

Grants Benefit The Hearing Impaired

Manchester City Council has provided two grants to a Northenden community organisation so that it can provide facilities that will benefit the hearing impaired.
The grants totalling £6,400 have been given to St Michael and All Angels Community Hall in Orton Road, Northern Moor to install hearing loop systems.
The church hall will become more accessible [...]