Start End Subject Date Location Description Further Information Social Media Time Time A pop-up café offering snacks and drinks and an opportunity for local people to talk to each other, get to 4 Steps Enterprise and know each other and find out what’s on offer in Burnage. Learning Centre, Burnage Lynn Leggat: 0161 442 7544, 4 Steps CIC's Burnage We will be showcasing the activities offered in our 4 Steps Twitter: @4stepsCIC, 07/10/2016 11:00 14:00 Community Centre, 347 07711270164 or Pop-Up Café Enterprise and Learning Centre and the activities that Facebook: @4StepsELC Burnage Lane, Burnage, [email protected] Burnage Community Association and Burnage Good Manchester M19 1EW Neighbours offer. We will also be inviting local partners to share information about their services. Volunteering fair for local people in Miles Platting to Adactus Housing's Victoria Mill Community Toni Snelson: 0161 203 2600 make people aware of volunteering opportunities in the Twitter: @AdactusMP, Volunteer in MP to and Outreach Library, press 2 or 05/10/2016 10:30 13:30 area. Local organisations will be giving out information so Facebook: Adactus Miles 'meet new people' and Lower Vickers Street, [email protected] that people could then volunteer knowing what they're Platting boost your C.V. Manchester M40 7LJ .uk happy with doing. Ahmadiyya Muslim Open day style event with frequent mosque tours and Organisation (Women Darul Aman Mosque, 15 introduction of Ahmadiyya Muslim Organisation. Free Faria Khawaja: 07479 141 421 or Wing) East Branch's Visit 08/10/2016 10:00 16:00 Greenheys Lane, Hulme, refreshments for all and activities for children. Henna [email protected] the Most Beautiful Manchester M15 6NQ stalls and a chance of friendly talk during coffee and Mosque in Manchester cakes. Please note that this event is WOMEN ONLY. We’re holding a Macmillan Coffee Morning event (in the Back on Track's Back on Track, Fourth afternoon) that’s also an open day so anyone can come Samuel Turner: 0161 834 1661 Twitter: Macmillan Coffee Floor, Swan Buildings, 20 along, join in the fun, get some cake and find out about or @BackonTrackMcr, 04/10/2016 13:00 15:00 Morning in the Swan Street, Manchester what we do! All the cakes will be made by our Swan samuel@backontrackmancheste Facebook: Afternoon M4 5JW Kitchens catering crew on the day. Donations will go to a r.org.uk @BackonTrackMcr cause close to many’s hearts – Macmillan Cancer Support. Home Community Café, Beanstalk and Save the Children will be delivering a joint Twitter: @Nwbeanstalk Beanstalk and Save the Emmanuel Church, 6 event with a community café, Home, to provide a friendly Lorna Towner: 07912 392 243 or and @savechildrenuk, Children's 'Once Upon a 07/10/2016 12:00 15:00 Barlow Moor Road, and engaging storytelling session. Children and young lorna.towner@beanstalkcharity. Facebook: Time…' Storytelling and Didsbury, Manchester people can share a book and game with our reading org.uk @beanstalknorthwest Games Session M20 6TR volunteers. and @savethechildrenuk City Year UK would like to invite you to our Greater Manchester office to meet our volunteers and find out City Year UK, Boulton more about what we do! We are a leading youth and City Year UK's Open House, 17-21 Chorlton Jo Tripney: 0161 236 1114 or Twitter: @CityYearUK, 07/10/2016 12:45 14:15 education charity; we'll run a short presentation to give House Street, Manchester M1 [email protected] Facebook: @cityyearuk you all of the information you need about City Year UK 3HY before giving you the opportunity to meet our current volunteers and talk to them about their City Year! FOAM will host a gardening session to include new planting schemes and bulbs. The session will ostensibly Friends of Angel Twitter: St. Michael’s Flags and be based around our gardening project but may also be Meadow's (FOAM) Richard Paul Long: 07810 @MeadowAngels, Angel Meadow Park, Old expanded to include history and genealogy aspects (TBC). Autumnal Community 09/10/2016 12:00 15:00 748592 or mail@friends-of-angel-Facebook: Friends of Mount Street, Manchester Local residents from the wider neighbourhood are Gardening and Tidy-up meadow.org Angel Meadow (public M4 4TF welcome, as well as existing FOAM members. All tools Day group) and gloves provided but please wear suitable clothing. Refreshments also available. Twitter: Rachel Summerscales: 0161 227 Hulme Community @hulmeCgardenC and Hulme Community 8198 or Garden Centre and A celebration of all things vegan: talks; stalls; live music; @VeganOrganic, Garden Centre, 28 Old [email protected]. Vegan Organic 01/10/2016 11:00 17:00 bar; organic fruit and veg; vegan food; workshops and lots Facebook: Hulme Birley Street, St. George's, uk and Dan Graham: 0161 232 Network's Vegan of fun! Adults £2 entry, children free. Community Garden Manchester M15 5RG 7807, 0773 273 3001 or Abundance Festival Centre and [email protected] @VeganOrganicNetwork Join us for a range of different activities, including Jean Bernard: 0161 850 4044 or Inspired People's Levenshulme Inspire, The computing taster sessions, exercise classes, free massages [email protected] Celebrate National Older Inspire Centre, 747 and information stalls. You’ll also be able to have your say Twitter: @levinspire, 01/10/2016 11:00 15:00 and Kate Williams: 0161 850 People’s Day at Stockport Road, on local issues. Music and refreshments will be available Facebook: @LevInspire 4044 or kate.williams@lev- Levenshulme Inspire Manchester M19 3AR all day. For more information, to talk about transport inspire.org.uk options or to join Inspired People please get in touch. Ladybarn Gardening Club takes place every Thursday afternoon, all year round, featuring two classes of 4 or 5 children that change each half term. Working closely with Twitter: @SowtheCity Ladybarn Primary School the schools Eco Team, over the last year the club have Ladybarn Primary School, Kieron McGlasson: 07841 and @KingswayCT, supported by Sow the been working hard to create a new wildlife area, grow 06/10/2016 14:00 16:00 Briarfield Rd, Manchester 382837 or Facebook: Sow the City City's Gardening Club vegetables, manage a compost heap, create a willow M20 4SR [email protected] and Kingsway Open Day dome, make scarecrows, cook produce and so on. The Community Trust idea behind this event is to invite parents and carers of children past and present in the gardening club to see what the club has been achieving. Ladyfest MCR is a collective which creates events which combine music, art and ideas with a feminist ethos. We aim to promote music and art created by women and provide opportunities for participants to develop skills and knowledge in various areas, both practical and political. We aim to create a sense of community amongst Niki Taylor and Carly Lyes: Three Minute Theatre, those who attend and participate in our events and Twitter: @ladyfestmcr, 07762909564, Ladyfest MCR's 'Clueless' Afflecks Arcade, 35-39 activities, to bring together those interested in music and Facebook: 07/10/2016 19:30 23:00 [email protected] or Film Screening Oldham Street, feminism in the local area and inspire people to work @ladyfest.manchester.9 [email protected] Manchester M1 1JG together to bring about social change. The Facebook 4 om event for this film screening is available at: www.facebook.com/events/1235874353109594. Tickets are £5 and available from Skiddle: www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Manchester/The-Three- Minute-Theatre/Clueless-film-screening-by-Ladyfest- MCR/12823495 (currently sold out). Ladyfest MCR is a collective which creates events which combine music, art and ideas with a feminist ethos. We aim to promote music and art created by women and provide opportunities for participants to develop skills Niki Taylor and Carly Lyes: Twitter: @ladyfestmcr, Ladyfest MCR's 'Rise In Eastern Bloc Records, 5A and knowledge in various areas, both practical and 07762909564, Facebook: The East' All Female DJ 07/10/2016 20:00 23:00 Stevenson Square, political. We aim to create a sense of community amongst [email protected] or @ladyfest.manchester.9 Night Manchester M1 1DN those who attend and participate in our events and [email protected] 4 activities, to bring together those interested in music and om feminism in the local area and inspire people to work together to bring about social change. This All Female DJ Night will be lots of fun and is free entry! Ladyfest MCR is a collective which creates events which combine music, art and ideas with a feminist ethos. We aim to promote music and art created by women and provide opportunities for participants to develop skills and knowledge in various areas, both practical and political. We aim to create a sense of community amongst those who attend and participate in our events and activities, to bring together those interested in music and feminism in the local area and inspire people to work Niki Taylor and Carly Lyes: Twitter: @ladyfestmcr, Ladyfest MCR's Feminist Central Methodist together to bring about social change. The Feminist 07762909564, Facebook: Community Fair and 08/10/2016 12:00 19:00 Buildings, Oldham Street, Community Fair will have a series of stalls by local [email protected] or @ladyfest.manchester.9 Workshops Manchester M1 1JQ women’s organisations and campaigns. There will be [email protected] 4 feminist workshops on: Sex and Consent; Reproductive om Justice; Women, Race and Resistance; and more. Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/1219293388104730. There will also be a focus on Women in Tech, with free workshops on coding, game design, sound production and more.