Creative Design and Manufacture UK
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@ukcdm
Instagram: http://instagram.com/ukcdm
Email: [email protected]
Where do they work?: Cheetham, Crumpsall, Gorton and Abbey Hey, Piccadilly, Hulme, Longsight, Moss Side, Rusholme, Fallowfield, Levenshulme
Telephone: 0161 376 8049
Address: Rear of 1st Floor
10-20 Grosvenor Street
Manchester
M1 7JJ
Registered charity number: 0
Company number: 09903643
Description: CDM UK is a not for profit social enterprise. The key aim of the organisation is to make a positive contribution in society through its innovative, creative and interactive textile and art focused workshop sessions.
CDM UK is a unique creative facility, using textiles and art as a tool to engage people through interactive workshop sessions to help them deal with their various personal issues, from deprivation to domestic, drug and sexual abuse, depression, isolation, loneliness and self-harm; physical, mental and learning disability and mental, emotional and psychological health needs.
CDM UK workshop sessions offer training and support for people to learn how to manufacture high quality, high fashion textile products, using natural fabrics and hand processed textile techniques such as hand sewing, hand knitting, embroidery, crocheting, weaving, dyeing, screen printing, block printing, shibori, tie dye etc.
The sessions are designed to give people a safe, relaxed and supportive environment to facilitate discussion and to enable them to express feelings while learning various textile skills, which can be the basis of opportunity for self-employment, employment, further studies or just therapeutic benefit.
The workshop sessions takes place either at the CDM UK premises, where people come and use the facilities to learn, or at various local community venues such as community centres or places of worship (mosques, churches, synagogues, temples), where we take the learning materials to them.
CDM UK promotes recycling, up cycling, green living and heathy eating in all its workshops and encourages people to live a waste free life using natural products to reduce the dependence on synthetic products that harms the environment.
One of the key focus of CDM UK activities is to promote textile education or employment amongst young people through interactive textile workshops, either at their schools, colleges or other places of study or at the CDM UK premises. So far, CDM UK has helped up to 15 young people to choose a career in textiles, either through education or employment.
CDM UK aims to respond to the needs of the city’s textile industry. The organisation provides customised support to local textile businesses to fill the gap in services within the sector with a view to regenerate the local textile industry. So far, CDM UK has helped approx. 10 local textile businesses offering design support, access to govt funding, sampling service and recruitment.
CDM UK also provides 'incubation' support to textile graduates from the local universities to establish them as a business as well as offering them facilities to use CDM UK facilities to maintain their practice. So far, CDM UK has provided support to 6 graduates, including helping some of them to find employment within the local textile industry.
CDM UK has partnership with several local and regional agencies to improve the employability of residents with a view to help support economic regeneration of the local areas. This includes local and regional industry trade associations, regional network for BME, community and voluntary sector, local and regional regeneration agencies, local training providers, faith networks and places of worship (mosques, churches and synagogues) and several local and regional community and voluntary sector organisations.
CDM UK is a unique creative facility, using textiles and art as a tool to engage people through interactive workshop sessions to help them deal with their various personal issues, from deprivation to domestic, drug and sexual abuse, depression, isolation, loneliness and self-harm; physical, mental and learning disability and mental, emotional and psychological health needs.
CDM UK workshop sessions offer training and support for people to learn how to manufacture high quality, high fashion textile products, using natural fabrics and hand processed textile techniques such as hand sewing, hand knitting, embroidery, crocheting, weaving, dyeing, screen printing, block printing, shibori, tie dye etc.
The sessions are designed to give people a safe, relaxed and supportive environment to facilitate discussion and to enable them to express feelings while learning various textile skills, which can be the basis of opportunity for self-employment, employment, further studies or just therapeutic benefit.
The workshop sessions takes place either at the CDM UK premises, where people come and use the facilities to learn, or at various local community venues such as community centres or places of worship (mosques, churches, synagogues, temples), where we take the learning materials to them.
CDM UK promotes recycling, up cycling, green living and heathy eating in all its workshops and encourages people to live a waste free life using natural products to reduce the dependence on synthetic products that harms the environment.
One of the key focus of CDM UK activities is to promote textile education or employment amongst young people through interactive textile workshops, either at their schools, colleges or other places of study or at the CDM UK premises. So far, CDM UK has helped up to 15 young people to choose a career in textiles, either through education or employment.
CDM UK aims to respond to the needs of the city’s textile industry. The organisation provides customised support to local textile businesses to fill the gap in services within the sector with a view to regenerate the local textile industry. So far, CDM UK has helped approx. 10 local textile businesses offering design support, access to govt funding, sampling service and recruitment.
CDM UK also provides 'incubation' support to textile graduates from the local universities to establish them as a business as well as offering them facilities to use CDM UK facilities to maintain their practice. So far, CDM UK has provided support to 6 graduates, including helping some of them to find employment within the local textile industry.
CDM UK has partnership with several local and regional agencies to improve the employability of residents with a view to help support economic regeneration of the local areas. This includes local and regional industry trade associations, regional network for BME, community and voluntary sector, local and regional regeneration agencies, local training providers, faith networks and places of worship (mosques, churches and synagogues) and several local and regional community and voluntary sector organisations.
Services delivered: CDM UK is a unique creative facility, using textiles and art as a tool to engage people through interactive workshop sessions to help them deal with their various personal issues, from deprivation to domestic, drug and sexual abuse, depression, isolation, loneliness and self-harm; physical, mental and learning disability and mental, emotional and psychological health needs.
Services are available: Face to face, Online/digitally
Services are delivered on: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Monday opening time: 9am-6pm
Tuesday opening time: 9am-6pm
Wednesday opening time: 9am-6pm
Thursday opening time: 9am-6pm
Friday opening time: 9am-6pm
Languages available: English (Primary), Bengali, Urdu.
Special activities running over winter: In addition to textile services we help individuals with any issues that they might be facing in their daily life. We are not prescriptive about the type of needs that a person must come to us with and will do whatever needs to be done to help the individual.
Winter services are available: Face to face, Online/digitally, By telephone
Non-cash donations: We take non-cash donations all the time, mainy fabrics, so long as they are natural fabrics.