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Tasty Looking Kit

Wythenshawe Amateurs Junior Football Club are delighted to link up with Northenden Indian Food Takwaway Sagor Balti, whose boss Abdul Hoqme is sponsoring the under-9s new team strip.

Junior Football

Crossacres School Playgrou

Junior Cricket

Wythenshawe Cricket Club’s junior section finished their season on a high note, after a summer of very little sun!
The Junior Section reflected on a season that finished with all sides finishing around mid table, a creditable performace, considering many important matches were washed out and a great improvement on last year!
Next year they hope to be [...]

Swim Cap Designer

Wythenshawe Forum Pool hosted a swin cap colouring competition, sponsored by Speedo.
Winning designer Maria Nuttall is pictured with her entry.
10-year-old Maria is in year 6 at St. Wilfrid’s School in Northenden.

Smooth Start in Senior School

Eleven year olds in Wythenshawe gave up part of their summer holidays to go back into the classroom in a bid to better prepare them for high school.
They spent two weeks taking part in maths and English booster lessons and other activities, all aimed at giving them a flying start when they move up into [...]

Great Sports

Five young people from Nacro Discus Wythenshawe Youth Inclusion Project took part in the North West Street Games at Sport City.
The team competed in the handball tournament playing together for the first time, and represented Manchester in the inter-borough challenge.
Ashley Florence, Callum Beaumont, Nathan Parkinson, Kain Tait and Matthew Rafferty won the fair [...]

Community Club

 
Wythenshawe Town Community Football Club are proud to announce the opening of its brand new building, thanks to support from both Manchester FA and the Sports Foundation
Wythenshawe Town was founded originally in 1946 and was known as North Withington FC. 
Moving to the existing site on Timpson Road, Baguley, in 1971 they soon became known as [...]

Cycle Ride for Boxing Club

 
Local MP Paul Goggins took part in a sponsored bike ride around Derwent Dam to raise funds to help a local gym in Benchill.

Mr Goggins joined a group of around 20 young people on a 12 mile ride raising money for Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy. 

 “Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy does a lot of good work with [...]

Sizzling On

South Manchester continues to ‘sizzle’ with the health promotion runs/walks that set Wythenshawe Park alight fortnightly through the summer. The four 5k events, famously known as the Manchester ‘Sizzlers’, have been attracting every ability from international athletes to runners fighting the flab and wanting to become fitter and healthier. The third run took place in [...]

Primary Exercise

 
 Wythenshawe’s Parkway Green Housing Trust promotes healthy lifestyle and the benefits of exercise to the local youth.
‘The Parkway Green Mile’ took place at Wythenshawe Athletics Track in the scenic setting of Wythenshawe Park and saw over 170 boys & girls from 5 local Primary Schools take part in the event
Each year six pupil had to [...]