All Health and Wellbeing

Sow the City are putting the finishing touches to the transformation of a piece of derelict land in Hulme.

Where once there was a thirty year old eyesore, there are now potatoes, strawberries, French beans, sweetcorn, red cabbage, spring onions, chard and herbs. They are also building a compost heap, a seating and social area, and a shelter before the final handover to the local volunteers who will take it on and maintain it for good.

The Gaddum Centre is busy working with a web developer today, putting the finishing touches to its great new carers’ website. A network of 20 Manchester carer support organisations, with focus groups, has spent six months designing and developing the website. This has been achieved with invaluable involvement from carers looking at the design and how it will work to make sure that it meets the needs of carers across the city.

 ‘You can tell it is a Community Explorers meeting by the noise’. Lots of conversations and networking is the one of the main reasons people attend these community health and care meetings. On Tuesday 19 September, there were 18 participants including Jobcentre Plus, Manchester Carers Forum and the North Manchester Black Health Forum.