Tony and Nigel overlooking the Birley Fields site. This site will be developed by Manchester Metropolitan University as a new campus. The campus, projected to cost £150m in total, will house staff and students in education, health and social care programmes and research. 80% of local residents supported the plans following last years consultation and an impact assessment found that the new campus would add £29.2m to the local economies something that the Green Party opposes.
Tony and Nigel visit the City South Housing Trust redevelopment in St George’s. The tower blocks are undergoing over-cladding and overroofing work which will improve the energy efficiency of the flats, a £100,000 grant from the Department for Energy and Climate Change will be used to install solar roof panels. These improvements along with many others projects across Hulme could not have happened without the creation of City South Housing, something that the Green Party opposed.
Hornchurch Court Community Garden has been transformed in to an award winning garden thanks to hard working residents and the help of a CASH grant supported by your Hulme Labour Councillors. Local Cllr Nigel Murphy said “This just proves what can be done when a community gets together. I’m so pleased that the CASH grant has made it possible. I urge other community groups to apply for them this year.”
Local businesses, on Stretford Road, which have served the local community for many years have been saved by the interventions of local Labour Councillors Nigel and Mary Murphy. The businesses including Buzzrocks, The Post Office and a local chemist, faced closure when their landlord told them that they were putting their leases up for sale at an auction in London. Nigel and Mary ensured that the shops were withdrawn from the auction and that the local businesses were given the first chance to buy. Farida Aderson of Buzzrocks said “The local Labour Councillors are committed to the maintenance of local services and the priorities of the local community, we knew we could turn to them when we were faced with such a dilemma.” Celebrating the victory, Cllr Nigel Murphy said “It was vital that these local facilities stayed open for the residents of Hulme. Now that that the shops are owned by local business people, we know that they will be able to serve Hulme for years to come.”
The parade will begin at
The parade will then continue on its way along
There will be a viewing area in
This guaranteed fusion of colourful, noisy and flamboyant fun for all draws thousands of visitors of all ages every year and the parade isn’t the only attraction. From Friday 23 April until Sunday 25 April, the special
The St George Festival in front of the Town Hall will include musical and theatrical entertainment, costume characters & performers, an English themed pub, arts and crafts and various food and drink stalls and a special treat for Saturday only, a display of Rolls Royce cars - the ultimate English motor - from vintage vehicles to the current day.
Hulme Councillor Nigel Murphy said: “The celebrations for
For more information visit on the parade - http://www.stgeorgesparade.org.uk/
For more information visit on the festival - http://www.stgeorgefestival.net/
Greater Manchester Police, FutureArtists and the Zion Arts Centre will be delivering an up to date look at social networking for beginners. Aimed at the parents of young people who frequently use social networking sites on the internet such as ‘Facebook’, the information session will answer the key questions such as what is a social network and how can you make sure your child is safe online.
The first half of the session will be delivered by Greater Manchester Police and will be an informal introduction to internet and social networking safety
aimed at parents. The second half of the session will be lead by Mark Ashmore and Jenny Inchbald from ‘FutureArtists’ showing you how social networks and internet tools are a thing to be embraced and played with, and how the whole family can get involved.
If you have any concerns about your child using the internet and want to know more then the partnership of Greater Manchester Police, the Zion Arts Centre and Future Artists hope to be able to help. If this event sounds like it would put your mind at rest, then please book a place by emailing info@zionarts.com or call 0161 226 1912.
Residents and organisations are set to help
Groups across the city have received grants from the Manchester Carbon Innovation Fund, set up to help make sure people who live and work in the city know what they can do about the issue, while the grants have also attracted nearly half a million pounds in match funding from other organisations.
The grants have been issued to support a wide range of activities, from food growing projects to educational schemes, helping
This goal was outlined in the city’s climate change action plan, entitled Manchester A Certain Future – Our Collective Action On Climate Change, launched in December by climate change minister Ed Miliband. It was coordinated by the City Council but written by nearly 100 groups including Manchester Friends Of The Earth.
The fund has also provided money to Action For Sustainable Living’s Low Carbon Communities project, under which volunteers in 10 wards are receiving training and support to provide practical advice and ideas about tackling climate change to members of their community.
Other funding went towards providing expert information while researching and producing the Manchester A Certain Future action plan.
Councillor Nigel Murphy, Manchester City Council’s Deputy Executive Member for the Environment and Hulme Councillor, said: “
“We’re providing these grants as part of the first step towards meeting the aims of the plan. This is about providing residents with the tools and the expertise they need to make their communities more environmentally friendly, as well as creating more green spaces and ensuring more food is grown in the city.”
Young Manchester musicians proved there is more than one string to their bow when they turned out in force to a special free event held by Manchester Music Service.
Just short of one hundred youngsters from more than 40 different schools across the city turned up to a String Play Along event held at the Zion Arts Centre in Hulme last week.
The event was designed as a taster session for the Manchester Central String Orchestra - the city's newest string orchestra for young people - and formed only last year.
Each of the young people had been given music to practice on their own at home and in their music lessons at school before the big event which saw them play their instruments alongside members of the orchestra.
The event gave the youngsters the chance to experience first hand the thrill of playing with an orchestra and for many of them it was the first opportunity they had had to play their instruments with other musicians.
It also served as a great introduction to the new orchestra which rehearses every Wednesday during term time from 6 - 7 pm at the Zion Centre.
The orchestra was formed in September last year and played its first concert in December with plans to play regular concerts each term of the school year.
Councillor Sheila Newman, Executive Member Children's Services, Manchester City Council, said: "
"This event was a great success and we hope the young people who took part in this event so enthusiastically will keep playing music and keep coming back."
Local Councillor Nigel Murphy added “It is great to see the Zion Centre being used as a base for this new orchestra; I’d encourage any local young people who are interested in joining or wants to find out more to contact the Music Service on 0161 226 4422”
Manchester Central String Orchestra is open to all children and young people aged 7 - 19 years.
10th - 28th February, 10:00hr – 21hr00, The
This exhibition brings together a unique collection of historical photographs and documents to tell the history of Hulme since the industrial revolution.
It draws on collections from the city’s institutions, libraries, archives as well as private collections. Many of the photograph have been rarely seen in public.
The images are arranged in broad themes and provide a fascinating series of images about a Hulme that is no more. They also argue that the history of Hulme, an important and much misunderstood community in
Thus whilst the more recent developments in Hulme are covered in the exhibition - the story of the Crescent and later local initiatives - it uses photographs, maps and other documents to argue that Hulme has a much longer and significant history in the making of Manchester, the world’s first industrial city. The importance of the
The photographs also reflect the poverty and deprivation which led to the creation of the idea of ‘Outcast Hulme’ in the early twentieth century. Housing problems and the initiatives to tackle the slums were certainly not confined to the post-war period.
The exhibition also focuses on the vitality of the community, its cultural and educational institutions. The now forgotten role of the
The exhibition is arranged through the Department of History and Economic History at
Why not go along to the Zion's Open Day on Sunday February 7th to get to know them and what they do! They want you to get involved and they want to hear your views
on the centre and what you want to see done there!
The day will include:
Drop in taster workshops including MC classes, Street Dance and Music
Live music from local DJ's and Radio Stations
Free refreshments
Drama, Dance, Comedy, Music, Arts and more!
They want to meet members of Hulme community so that they can make Hulme's creative quarter, a place for you!
A Copy of the Open Day Programme is available here! www.zionarts.com
It will also be an opportunity to meet their new Resident Artists who will be working within the building from January to March. These include Single Cell who will be bringing the Hulme Buskers project here along with many other musical events. Stuart Bowden will be introducing his project Architectonic which will be combining dance with an exploration of the building.
It will be also a chance for you to aquaint yourself with other tenants of the building including Manchester Music Services, Creative Hands Foundation, Odd Theatre, Drake Music and DIGM.
Why not go along to the Zion's Open Day on Sunday February 7th to get to know them and what they do! They want you to get involved and they want to hear your views
on the centre and what you want to see done there!
The day will include:
Drop in taster workshops including MC classes, Street Dance and Music
Live music from local DJ's and Radio Stations
Free refreshments
Drama, Dance, Comedy, Music, Arts and more!
They want to meet members of Hulme community so that they can make Hulme's creative quarter, a place for you!
A Copy of the Open Day Programme is available here! www.zionarts.com
It will also be an opportunity to meet their new Resident Artists who will be working within the building from January to March. These include Single Cell who will be bringing the Hulme Buskers project here along with many other musical events. Stuart Bowden will be introducing his project Architectonic which will be combining dance with an exploration of the building.
It will be also a chance for you to aquaint yourself with other tenants of the building including Manchester Music Services, Creative Hands Foundation, Odd Theatre, Drake Music and DIGM.
Join guided tours of Hulme
HOME of the first Rolls Royce factory, a precious Pugin church and, for a while, Winston Churchill, the historic Manchester district of Hulme has more than a few claims to fame.
It is also, according to our guide, the only inner city district to have had the heart ripped out of it, not once, but three times - first by German bombers, then in the 1960s slum clearances, and more recently with the removal of the Crescents housing 'experiment'.
If you want to find out more about this influential but troubled district, Manchester Metropolitan University is running a series of social history walks in the capable hands of human geographer Steve Millington.
Dr Millington has descended from generations of Hulme people and proves it by littering his two-hour tour with the locations of now-defunct family homes!
The walk is a fascinating journey through Hulme offering insights into the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the Mancunian Way, and the struggle to maintain a
sense of community. Steve also offers observations on the new Hulme and the planned MMU campus on Birley Fields.
Steve's first tour will take place on 3rd February at 2pm and you can register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/546514640
Everyone is welcome on this free tour which is also an opportunity to meet people from the university, and find out more about MMU's links with its communities.
If you can't make this first date, don't worry, the tour will be repeated on 3rd March, 7th April, 5th May, 2nd June and 7th July.
A separate walk around the Mancunian Way and investigating its impact in more detail, is being run in on March 20 in partnership with The Manchester Modernist
Society. Registration is at: http://mancunian.eventbrite.com
Look forward to seeing you on one of the walks!
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