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Anyone for tennis?
Charity offers free rackets and balls to help Sale West children have fun during lockdown. There’s no Wimbledon this year so Sale West could soon become the new UK home of tennis. Communities United Project, in partnership with the Tennis Foundation and StreetGames,...
“When they got back to school they were buzzing!”
Twelve is a very Christmassy number...on 19 December (wait for it) 12 pupils from Year 12 at Ashton on Mersey School volunteered to help cook and serve a Christmas dinner for isolated local residents. They did a brilliant job and even ran a session of festive bingo....
The art of the possible – Level 1 course in Youth and Community Work
This short, friendly course could be right up your street (literally). So, what could you get out of it?
Our LEGO adventure – the story so far…
In May 2018 we started a Saturday morning LEGO club in Sale West Community Centre as a way for parents to spend quality time with their children. Eight months in and the club has 20 families registered, that’s a total of 35 children, and we have two regular volunteers…
Proud to be a bit blobby
Have you heard about the blobs and the squares? It’s a parable that explains how difficult it can be for communities to use public money to make things better for themselves. It goes like this…
Helping community groups to manage boundaries
We often work with groups containing friends, neighbours and families. These are great ingredients to have, but sometimes people knowing each other ‘in real life’ causes difficulties…
When delivering a project feels too scary
Sometimes the joy of “Yay! we got funding” turns into a queasy feeling of trepidation. We call that the Fear of Delivery and it can strike at any time…