The funding was awarded to help support an ongoing programme of tea dances in Chadderton Town Hall. The events help to promote social inclusion, reduce isolation and loneliness and encourage everyone to maintain physical and mental health and wellbeing. Most participants were from North and Central Chadderton, but an increasing number came from outside the […]
Springboard is a Dementia support group for people who have dementia and their Carers. They were successful with their application to create a male calendar in the style of “Calendar Girls”. The idea for the calendar originated at a Springboard meeting when one of the helpers was trying to sell calendars which Housing 21 had […]
Glodwick Cricket Club wanted to set up a walking group “Glodwick Wanderers”. The initial aim of setting up the walking group was to help the local community to become healthier and to raise the profile of the Cricket Club. Glodwick Wanderers did their first walk on the morning of Monday 5 November 2018. The group […]
The club now has four successful teams, who last season won every league they played in. Forty children have benefitted from being part of the Hoyas Basketball Club. As well as being more physically active by learning to play basketball in a safe environment, the children now have a sense of being part of a […]
The tenants hold a regular games afternoon on a Thursday and had previously had access to a Housing 21’s Kurling set. Violet Hill Court wanted to purchase their own Kurling set as the Housing 21 one was often in use by other housing schemes. Kurling has been very popular and is helping the tenants to […]
Do you have a great idea on how to improve your local area? Oldham Cares is once again inviting residents and communities to come forward with their suggestions as the applications to receive Fast Grants reopen. With amounts available from £50 to £500, this funding, which is designed to bring communities together, could be spent […]
Oldham is setting out a vision to improve the health and wellbeing of residents through the launch of the ground-breaking Oldham Health Check. Councillor Zahid Chauhan, a leading local GP and Oldham Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care, is explaining the plans – thought to be the first nationwide to specifically target more […]
In December 2018, we contacted 4,962 existing users of adult social care services, to ask for views on their current experience with the service. Residents of Oldham were also invited to share their views on Adult Social Care Services. We received 337 responses. Below is a summary of the key findings of the responses received […]
Oldham Cares* has awarded a three-year contract to a local consortium of Voluntary and Community organisations to create a Social Prescribing Innovation Partnership arrangement – thought to be one of the first for the public sector in England. This will see Action Together CIO, as the lead organisation, working with consortium charity partners Age UK […]
Oldham Cares is launching a new Social Action Fund to tackle social isolation and loneliness in communities across the borough. Around 10 per cent of local residents across all ages currently self-identify as being lonely. That is a figure mirrored nationally and leads to impacts on health and mortality which are as important as other […]
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