We’re holding hustings events ahead of the upcoming general election. Voters from each constituency will have the chance to hear from and question the invited candidates ahead of the general election on 12 December. The events will be chaired by a representative from Action Together.
Increased demand for services in winter exerts severe pressure on local community, voluntary, faith and social enterprise organisations. Action Together helps strengthen local non-profit organisations, to enable them to support local people, by driving support for winter initiatives from the Tameside Christmas Toy Appeal to volunteering for local organisations.
Come and see us at one of our volunteer open events and find out more!
Thurs 12th Dec-Tameside Wellbeing Corner, Indoor market, Ashton 11am-2pm
Mon 16th Dec-Sainsbury’s store, Ashton Under Lyne 11am-2pm
Wed 15th Jan-Tameside Wellbeing Corner, Indoor market Ashton 11am-2pm
Local homelessness charity, Emmaus Mossley, is celebrating after raising more than £9,000 at its Emmaus Vintage Christmas Market charity sale.
Crowds turned out in force on Saturday 16 November to support the charity and bag some festive bargains. The Vintage Christmas Market event launched Emmaus Mossley’s Christmas displays and included a range of festive stalls for all tastes and budgets.
Expression of Interest for Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector representative on the Greater Manchester Planning and Housing Commission
Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the GM VCSE Leadership Group are seeking one individual to represent the VCSE sector on the Greater Manchester Planning and Housing Commission and are looking for someone who meets the following:
The InTouch Legal (ITL) launch takes place on Tuesday 10 December 2019. InTouch Legal is a not for profit organisation set up to help vulnerable people with legal problems when they cannot get Legal Aid nor afford a solicitors fees. "We are proud to pilot this scheme in Oldham, Tameside and Rochdale. Any support that we can get from organisations, companies, people would be hugely appreciated. We hope to soon extend this nationwide."
The Mayor of Oldham will be opening the event at 12pm, arrive from 11.30, Cotton Rooms, 5 Rock Street, Oldham, OL1 3UJ
Following the recent releases of a number of reports on children's health and wellbeing, Greater Sport has produced a summary of each and linked them to work across Greater Manchester. Click here to find out more.
The new website will help people find walking routes, groups, resources, courses and more. It will also help people and organisations support the GM Walking Ambition. Take a look at the new website here.
The team in Rochdale would like to welcome Laura to our Action Together team. Laura is volunteering two days a week and we greatly appreciate her support so far!
Laura says:
"Hello,
I'm Laura Augustine, a volunteer at Action Together in Rochdale. I started volunteering in October. I wanted to volunteer for a while and I was lucky to meet Phil Greenwood (Volunteer Support Officer at Action Together) at my local job centre. He mentioned an administration opportunity at Action Together and immediately it just felt right.
This fesitval includes over 50+ events over 16 days at various venues. Events include:
The events will take place between 11 - 26 January 2020.