Rochdale Director, Maddy Hubbard, joins Crescent Community Radio

Submitted by colette.bradley... on Tue, 19/09/2023 - 09:05

Last week our fabulous Rochdale Director, Maddy Hubbard, was invited along to grace the airwaves of Rochdale’s Crescent Community Radio by their Managing Director, Faheem Chisti.

Crescent Community Radio is a wonderful grassroots, community organisation, first launched back in December 1999. Since then they have gone from strength to strength, not only regularly broadcasting to many communities in English and other languages, but also delivering numerous projects within the community, for example;

Digital Inclusion Project - helping people aged 55 and above access digital technologies
Health Awareness Programme - a multitude of health professionals outlining and accessing audiences that often are in the most need
Covid Crisis Helpline - one of the first community organisations up and running in March 2020, helping to deliver urgent food and medicines to isolated individuals

On 13 September Maddy joined Community Projects Manager and Presenter, Tasneem Shahzad on her 'Drive Time' show to talk about Action Together, the work we do, and the organisations we support across the borough of Rochdale and its four townships.

Maddy explained how we support, guide and connect grassroots groups and organisations to get their ideas off the ground, and make a positive impact in their community. There are currently over 1,200 community groups operating in Rochdale and around a third of these are members of Action Together who, in turn, benefit from the community-focused knowledge and expertise of our Team.

One of our most recent projects has been our work supporting the Rochdale Council of Mosques. Maddy explains how Action Together are often the 'bridge' between community groups and the Public Sector and are able to influence them to work more closely together and build stronger relationships.

For anyone who missed Maddy's appearance, you can catch the recorded interview here: https://fb.watch/n1xoSkHfPY/

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