A Longsight mental health charity is launching a new project for residents to share skills ranging from DIY to guitar lessons with one another. Staff at The Roby centre on Dickenson Road say the new ‘time banking’ scheme will help bring local people together and tackle ill health and isolation.
Over two hundred people rallied in Manchester’s Albert Square on Saturday in opposition to government cuts to support for disabled people. Similar demonstrations were held across the country as part of a national day of action called for by the Hardest Hit campaign.
Around 30,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Manchester today to protest against the Conservative Party Conference. The demonstration, named ‘Manchester for the Alternative’, was organised by the Trades Union Congress and the Right to Work campaign and drew in unionists and anti-cuts protestors from around the UK, with some coming from as far away as the West Country and Wales.
Lecturers at the University of Manchester took to the pickets yesterday as they went on strike against changes which threaten pensions.
Workers, students, community campaigners, the unemployed and pensioners will take to the streets of Manchester this Saturday to protest against cuts to services that the council is set to decide on next week.
Citizens Advice Bureaux (CABs) across the city have been rocked by the abolition of funding of debt advice to all except those in the most desperate situations. With this latest blow to the city’s advice sector the chief executive of Manchester CAB is predicting ‘misery’ for individuals in vulnerable situations who rely on such services.
NHS trusts in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Heywood and Middleton have stopped providing 57 types of non-emergency surgery until April as part of their “financial recovery plan” for 2010/11.
