IMAGINE ! COMMUNITY SUMMIT Saturday October 6th 2012

Imagine Rusholme! Core Team [email protected] 09/11/12 G

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Summit Agenda

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 2 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! My One Thing

We started off with a group introduction and appreciative story session. We said hello to someone we didn’t know and found out their name and where they were from. We then shared one thing each that has happened since the last Summit which had strengthened our love of Rusholme and wrote it on a ‘post it’.

My One Thing  Youth theatre director looking for participants  Different sections of the community working from the diverse communities that exist in together Rusholme  NEW BABY – everything I loved before I love  ‘Greened’ street: plants fruit & veg even more now  Project in Trinity House getting unemployed  Park events customer doing gardening  Street party on Park Range  Nice to see this  Diversity of population – dynamic  Happy about Birchfields Park Festival  Friends Group of Birchfields Park to support  Vibrancy & energy for civil matters more physical activities in the park  Rubbish being cleaned up  Environment cleansing (streets and Platt Fields)  St James churchyard tidy up  (More) welcoming to students (than other areas)  Beautiful area very leafy  The greenery  St James’ School a thriving local school new  The allotment & orchard in ! I head teacher didn’t know it existed  Birchfields Park Fun Day  Quiet street  A Great Big Breakfast  Introduction to the new GMP model done  The area around the old ‘Welcome Pub’ is  The Olympic spirit arriving! cleaner and tidier  Especially the great clean up – much improved  Clean-up  The area at the end of Rusholme Grove has  St James’ churchyard has been cleaned been tidied and looks much better  Walking to the post box and meeting friends on  Steering Group Action Plan with Stakeholders, the way now people are working together  Great work with South Rusholme Residents’  Leaves turning on the trees – beautiful! Group particularly now the students are  Visiting the vibrant ‘’ returning Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 3 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! My One Thing

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 4 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Building on Imagine Rusholme! 1

The current leaders of each of the ten Open Space Discussions that came out of the first Imagine Rusholme! Summit in March this year each gave a 140-word update on what they had achieved, in the context of their Discussion, since the first Summit in order to bring everyone up to speed.

OPEN SPACE DISCUSSION DISCUSSION LEADER Community Garden on Rusholme Grove Cllr Kate Chappell + Joining Up Green Spaces, Hedgerows & Trees + Helena Kettleborough

Creative Rusholme Phil Barton

Litter Free Rusholme Cllr Ahmed Ali + Cleaner/Greener

On Our Bikes in Rusholme Vincent Walsh

Reducing Burglary CPSO Phil Mellor

Respect for Rusholme Bruce Anderson + How to Work Positively with the Council for the Good of Rusholme

Rusholme & Wider World Issues Stephen Pennells

Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar + + Parking Sue Devlin

Student Integration & Involvement Bev Craig + Ashley Hall

Sustainability Jane Sweet

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We discussed outcomes for Imagine Rusholme 2 – we would aim to achieve one thing to make life good for everyone in Rusholme….by December 2012

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We used an approach called ‘World Café’ where each Discussion Leader remained at a ‘café’ table and everyone was free to choose which Discussion to join and therefore which ‘café’ table to sit at. We had at least three opportunities to move around, some people stayed in the same Discussion, others moved several times. Throughout we were taking first steps together:

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 7 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 1: Community Garden/Green Spaces

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 8 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 1: Community Garden/Green Spaces

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Community Garden/Green Spaces  Create corridors  Join up green spaces – better for wildlife  Gore Brook, Birchfields, Platt Fields  Organise fun run-fun walk-fun cycle with children between green spaces  Rusholme in Bloom  Bins  Family of foxes, hedgehog, feral cats  By December 2012 – Meet up to plan an Open Yardens and Gardens (OYG) Event! o Outcome – to raise funds to build planned community garden through our OYG open day o Speak to Adele, organiser of OYG o Speak to organisations like Friends of Birchfields, Friends of Platt Fields, Rusholme Allotments Association, Residents’ Associations and form a steering group. When are their next meetings? o Meet December, set a date, not to clash with other schemes o Plan the day – central area, sell programmes “Look out for……” o Pop-up tea shop  Co-opt enthusiastic partners – 5! (2 more)  1st Date for a meeting – Thursday 18th October 2012, 3pm @ Lynn’s house  Long term plan: o Involve the University botanical gardens o Involve landlords in keeping their gardens o Linking green areas into a wildlife/green walk around Rusholme  By October 2013: o Open Yardens & Gardens Sunday has taken place in mid June 2013 o there is a wildlife corridor walk o have established a forest school facility in one of our parks o have linked with the University botanical gardens and Red Rose forests o there is a scheme to encourage landlords to maintain front & back gardens & not concrete them over o Landscape & gardening scheme in place – enforced?

1. Kate Chappell – Discussion Leader cllr.k.chappell@.gov.uk 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 10 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 2: Creative Rusholme

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Creative Rusholme 1) Rusholme Festival Antwerp, Birch Community Centre, Platt Chapel, Trinity House, St Edwards Hall, Trinity House Rusholme is what people believe to be Rusholme 2) Plan strategy for the next 10 years with feasibility study 3) Legacy for Festival 4) Project for long-term goals 5) Rusholme festival to represent ALL of Rusholme 6) Brand image for ‘Southern Quarter’  Stage 1 o 22 Oct application in o If successful student to shadow/assist person o Small steering group – community/arts org/city/school o Raise awareness of what’s already going on to more parts of the community, inform people, cultural, “listening” o Apply for Neighbourhood Arts Grant for a project o First report – end Jan o Meeting of interested people o & Library Theatre o John Atkin  Stage 2 o Cultural feasibility – community, students, culture, economic o September/October 2013 – Rusholme Festival o Black history month o Photo o Sports - second

1. Phil Barton [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 11 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 3: Litter-Free Rusholme

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 12 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 3: Litter-Free Rusholme

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Litter-Free Rusholme  Managing tidyness!  Parking  Where are the bins? Not enough bins: who decides on the number of bins?  Heritage Trail  Funding from ward grant  Litter picking kits  Involve students and community groups  Use parking officers!  New Neighbourhood Delivery Teams from the Council, trying to reconcile differences about waste  NDT is overstretched, working relentlessly and achieving the job – successful with team and community  Partnership beginning to take place and growing  Businesses – NDT stopping fliers especially in student areas (not using letter boxes, getting thrown on floor – careless distributors)  Care of properties by landlords, care of heritage, aspirations  Signs £10,000, enforcement, parking strategies, conditions on sale of land  Educate out Anti-social behaviour?  Behaviour change: fines, enforcement, where are the signs? what is the Environmental Plan? Council should work on the Environmental Plan for Rusholme, What information are students given? changing mindset  Increase volunteers: lots of litter picking  Causes of problems – flytipping  Area’s perception – badly littered areas promote more litter dropping (Environmental perceptions)  In 2012: o Enforcement (in hot spots!!) – by December – NDT (MCC) o Traders paying for bins (sponsor) - by December – NDT, design, placing, including residents, influenced at Traders Association (Keep Britain Tidy) – traders taking responsibility o Signage (in hotspots!) - by December – ‘Pick Up Your Litter’ o CCTV – in now – rotate cameras! o Community guardians’ and residents’ involvement – by December, Community Mentors encourage new members –Guardian Forum in November, ‘Be Proud’ awards, work with Community Guardians training & support - universities ‘Good Neighbours Scheme’  Schools – CCET (MCC)/Schools  Litter (Business) Traders & Councillors  Behaviour Change – All  By October 2013: o Area is clean o Recycling is up o Alleyways are clean o Environmental cleanliness o People litter picking (including brushes), community is playing its part o Traders paying for extra litter bins o More signage, litter penalties o Community challenge – litter droppers and fly tippers ‘put it in the bin o Behavioural change in littering & fly tipping o Enforcement 1. Cllr Ahmed Ali [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 13 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 4: On Our Bikes in Rusholme

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 14 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 4: On Our Bikes in Rusholme

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – On Our Bikes in Rusholme  Reclaim streets for cyclists  Pedal Manchester  Critical Mass  20’s Plenty for Manchester  Road surface repairs  More cycle racks/bike parking  Bus conductors compulsory by law  Priority for cyclists at lights  More 20 mph limits  Greater awareness of cycling community groups  Councillor Kate Chappell (Rusholme) is a member champion for cycling at MCC  Action Plan: o Register as a stakeholder in Oxford Road Corridor Consultation [email protected] o Liaise ahead of formal opening of TfGM Consultation o Continue to report potholes to MCC o Attend “Love Cycling, Go Dutch” on 20 November and report back o Census of cyclists during morning & evening peak: 08:00 – 09:00 & 17:00 – 18:00 in March 2013 and again in October 2013, Junction Moss Lane East & o ‘Just Ride’ – family ride Sunday 14th October Loop

1. Vincent Walsh [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5.

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 15 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 5: Reducing Burglary

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Reducing Burglary  Inform new students  Always phone the police with any information  Home Watch Schemes  Never leave windows/doors unlocked  House alarms – are they working  Be aware  Licensed premises – stick to their licence conditions o Environmental health visits o Licence check with police o Check premises (fire service) etc  Meet with residents of Kent Court

1. CPSO Phil Mellor [email protected] 2. 3. 4.

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 16 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 6: Respect for Rusholme

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Respect 4 Rusholme  Wheelie bin management  Tenant action – Eastlands Trust  Flyers on windscreens (re considerate parking)  Heritage Trail ‘Living History’ (names from Rusholme’s past)  Asian Experience

1. Bruce Anderson [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5.

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 17 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 7: Rusholme & Wider World Issues

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Rusholme & Wider World Issues 1. Build local go global - write to councillors to get wider issues onto WARD PLAN, facilitate encouraging action, support, involvement in wider world issues, (eg, notice boards, media) 2. Publicise local events – Tax Bus at Martin Luther King House Tuesday 16th 15:00 3. Link to student wider concerns groups i. MMU ii. Xaverian iii. UoM 4. Link to Faith groups and communications 1. Stephen Pennells [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5. Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 18 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME!

Discussion 8: Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans incl Parking

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Discussion 8: Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans incl Parking

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans incl Parking  So what’s happening? o Business Association….but we need more participation! o Active residents! How do we sustain it over the next year?  How do we get there? o More engagement through ward coordination and the universities o Need people to fill the gap o Think creatively about funding  Parking Improvements o Currently being implemented o Some problems solved, eg, better use of loading bays o Progress made on the Rusholme ‘crater’  Action Plan o Facilitate a meeting with potential developers regarding the Rusholme ‘crater’ o Make progress on a Rusholme District Centre website o Initiate delivery of the planned parking improvements o Plan survey of local businesses o Ensure funding – EDU MCC, universities, private developers, S106 o Effective partnerships by December 2012 o Personnel – links – goodwill – resources - action plan o Working to action plan

1. Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar [email protected] 2. Sue Devlin [email protected] 3. 4. 5.

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 20 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 9: Student Integration & Involvement

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 21 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 9: Student Integration & Involvement

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Student Integration & Involvement  Coalition for Platt Fields o Encourage Council to improve facilities/area at the park  Community to get to know students on their roads, street parties etc, welcome events, hosted by communities  Advertise/promote ‘Manchester Zoom’ to students  What is happening? o Students have direct links with community groups o Regular student-led community events at Birch Community Centre  What is different in October 2013? o Coordination of student groups and community groups o How does it feel? Like a community!  Action Plan: o Make and maintain contact between students/university and community groups o Identify links between groups and to students o Working with university off-campus affairs team – provide regular email contact with groups, eg, coalition for Platt Fields and Birch Community Centre o Develop university and community group meetings to plan and discuss projects o Develop network between university and groups to ensure sustainability  Strengths o Post created to coordinate student community volunteers o University network of potential student volunteers – Manchester Leadership Programme o Interested community groups  Support Needed: o More community groups to get involved and stay involved o Community groups need support to plan and communicate volunteers and events o Appropriate placement plans – related to courses, etc  Resources Needed: o Networks – meeting spaces o Venues – people, volunteers.

1. Ashley Hall [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 22 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 10: Sustainability

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 23 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 10: Sustainability

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! - Sustainability  Homes - Green Roof - Manchester Carbon Coop  Churches and Mosques  Sustainability of Rusholme District Centre – clean, food, students and people come and east there – a vibrant Centre!  Retro-Fitting – Rob Jones  Birchfields - Forest Garden  Platt Fields – Soak area for water – not working – Council has no budget, Environment Agency?  Coalition for Platt Fields  Find out? What can we do  Eco house/pod on Eastlands’ site  All connected! Always have vision! – sharing the vision  Part of all themes  Practical and possible: o Tour of similar projects, inspirational, by bike, local (walk), o Back alley, Kent Road West, on November 11th 2012: clearing up, pruning trees and shrubs o Next Forest Garden meeting on 21st October, and forest garden session 1-3pm 18th November. Discuss refurbishment/retro-fitting at next Forest Garden social – 1st November o Urban Garden Project – all come + visitors from other projects, run workshops o Mapping of all green spaces, a comprehensive map of all green spaces (large and small - including small verges) in and on boundaries of Rusholme: on bikes and on foot and Pedal Manchester. Map the forest garden and foraging routes to/from Platt Fields and Fallowfield Loop o Manchester Carbon Coop – workshops on retro-fitting – group meeting o South Rusholme Residents – December 2012 – Manchester Green Deal  Collective meeting – Birchfields  Cycling garden tour  In 1 Year’s Time: o Street by street o More pocket parks and food growing – link to exemplary projects - Cranswick Square Gardens - Urban Gardening Project – Community Group o More sharing of resources – more self-reliant community (district heat and power scheme) – saving money o Examples of low carbon living being replicated – homes warm and efficient – create jobs o More coalitions – cheaper o Link with Housing Associations o Faith Communities o Energy creation schemes

1. Jane Sweet [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 25 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! What Else Will It Take?

IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – What Else Will It Take?  Involve the Rusholme Business Association – Sue Devlin, Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar, Cllr Ahmed Ali, Muhammad Ayub  Involve all groups – run mini Imagine Rusholme!s in their contexts, eg, mosques, churches, students, Mela, women’s groups, schools, parents – Sue Devlin  Create a single hub of information about these initiatives, eg, newsletter, notice boards, web – Sue Devlin, Colin Bennett  Way of welcoming students – Vincent Walsh sends something out to all students in the street – Vincent Walsh  Take this back to our own street and get one more individual involved in the initiative - All  Another Imagine Rusholme! – Cllr Kate Chappell  Rusholme Blog – Bruce Anderson and All  Put the names out and others’ research, eg, growing ethnic food – Cllr Ahmed Ali and Colin Bennett 1. ALL Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 26 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Summit 2 Feedback

What I really loved today  Talking with people with passion!  Good organisation! Thank you x  Hearing of media/comms in present  The energy of everyone!  Talking to people with a common goal  Meeting people new and familiar  Planning  Great facilitation  Passion/vibe to make Rusholme a better place to live

What would make it even better next time  More time to talk  Crèche with activity for children which would include them in Imagining Rusholme, eg, craft activities, storied invented, ideas for their future. This way more families will be able to get involved.  Not using the phrase ‘nitty gritty’ – very racist in origin  More time on less tasks

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 27 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! And We All Enjoyed the Lovely Venue

and the Tasty Lunch

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And is Synchronicity in the Air??

‘Everything you can imagine is real’ by Matt Lyon www.c8six.com

A greetings card spotted for sale in shop in October 2012.

Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 29 of 30 [email protected] Greetings card courtesy of ‘TOASTED’ CONTEMPORARY DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION www.thisistoasted.com Printed and published in the UK by urban graphic ltd www.urbangraphic.co.uk 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME!

Acknowledgements

The Imagine Rusholme! Project is taking its lead from Imagine Chicago www.imaginechicago.org. The inspiration for the Imagine Rusholme! Project came via Helena Kettleborough, out of the European AI Network Conference which was held in Manchester, November 2-5, 2011: http://www.networkplace.eu/web/page.aspx?refid=145. The Imagine Rusholme! Summit 2 was a follow up to Summit 1 which took place in March 2012 involving over 70 Rusholme residents and other interested parties. The Imagine Rusholme! Summit 2 was funded by ’s cash grants scheme: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200047/grants/202/cash_grants_to_improve_residential _areas. The Imagine Rusholme! Summit 2 used techniques from a toolkit called Appreciative Inquiry: http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/. The choice of techniques, workshop materials and the AI skills were provided by a group of expert AI practitioners who met via the European AI network: http://www.networkplace.eu/. …..namely Helena Kettleborough, Cliodhna Mulhern, Ruth Passman, Abdul Hamied, Kate Sibthorp, Kathy Mills, Elizabeth Jayne and Masoud Sanii: contact via: [email protected] or 0161 225 3422. The flipchart notices, signs and Imagine Rusholme! Story Wall were all created by a gifted artist, Kate Sibthorp, based in the NW: contact via [email protected] or 0161 225 3422. All photographs were taken by a Rusholme resident and Creative Rusholme Discussion Leader, Phil Barton. All ‘word clouds’ were created by another Rusholme resident Sue Devlin using the wonderfully simple and freely available www.wordle.net. The tasty, Asian cuisine was freshly cooked on site for us by Saira Qureshi from a local charity: Nazir Welfare Trust www.nwtcharity.org. ….. refreshment services were magnificently managed by Rusholme residents, Anne Tucker and Rob Jones, assisted by other local residents. …..and the ‘pop-up’ crèche, hosting some ten lively members of the Rusholme’s next generation, was ably managed by their parents plus Anne Tucker and Kate Cross. The great Rusholme venue was provided by: www.birchcc.org. The Summit was organised by the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team: Elaine Bishop, Sue Devlin Helena Kettleborough, Jane Sweet and Anne Tucker. …..with full support, as ever, from Rusholme’s three Councillors, the Rusholme Neighbourhood Delivery Team, the Rusholme Ward Coordination and Regeneration Teams, and other Rusholme- focused Manchester City Council officers. The Imagine Rusholme! Core Team can be contacted at [email protected] or on 0161 225 3422.

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