Get Active with Active Lifestyles

Active Lifestyles, Manchester City Council, offers a range of weekly physical activity classes across the city suitable for older people.

Classes include Circuits, Aerobics and Aqua based classes. For more information and a timetable please go to our website www.manchester.gov.uk/activelifestyles and look at Easy Rhythms or call us on 0161 234 5454.  

Please note classes are £1 per session. 

Front Row: Film Showings for the Over 50's in Newton Heath

1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month 12 - 2.30pm
Heathfield Hall, Heathfield Street (off Briscoe Lane), Newton Heath

Come and see the latest releases in a warm environment. Bring old friends and meet new ones while being entertained.

Upcoming films:

  3 June - Into The Woods
17 June - Selma  
  1 July - The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel  
15 July - Still Alice  
  5 August - Paddington  
19 August - Big Hero 6

 £1.50 donation towards refreshments.

For more information please contact Joan on 688 4038.  If a large group please do book places.

Volunteer Centre, Manchester

Volunteer Centre Manchester provides information, support and training to Manchester residents who want to volunteer. VCM also supports organisations who want to recruit volunteers, need help and advice to develop new roles, introduce/update policies and procedures or have a training need.

Whether you are looking to lend a hand on a one off basis or for a longer period of time, Volunteer Centre Manchester can bring you the most current selection of opportunities across Greater Manchester and assist with your application.

For further information and to register with Volunteer Centre Manchester visit www.volunteercentremanchester.co.uk and direct your attention to the ‘I want to Volunteer’ section. Alternatively you can phone 0161 830 4770 or email info@volunteercentremanchester.co.uk

INTERGEN Chorlton

Have fun, make new friends, be useful, use your skills and expertise and have fun! INTERGEN offers you the opportunity for all this by volunteering in a local primary school in Chorlton (Barlow Hall, Chorlton Park and/or Old Moat).

Check out the Intergen website (www.intergen.org.uk) and contact Estelle on 07946 761 785 or estelle.longmore@intergen.org.uk for a chat about how this might be the right thing for you and some local children.

Physical activity professionals/volunteers required for Interview Study on Older Adults and Physical Activity

Do you provide or deliver physical activity to adults 65 years or older in any of the following areas of Manchester: Ancoats, Ardwick, Cheetham, Clayton, Fallowfield, Gorton, Harpurhey, Hulme, Longsight, Moss Side, or Rusholme?

We would like to know about your experiences of older adults engaging in physical activity and what you think may help older adults to be more physically active in your area.  

Please get in touch to book a one-off interview lasting 60-90 minutes.  For more information please contact Mrs Angela Devereux-Fitzgerald on 0161 275 2593 or email angela.devereux@manchester.ac.uk

INTERGEN Burnage

Intergen is looking for retired people in the Burnage area who would like to volunteer an hour or so a week in a local primary or secondary school. Share your skills and experience with young people and help to break down the generation barriers and give the children a real sense of community.

Current volunteers are helping with a variety of school clubs, offering one to one help with reading and introducing young people to new (or old) skills. Its great fun and offering schools a really important intergenerational experience.

Want to know more? Contact the INTERGEN Burnage co-ordinator Hazel Roy on 0161 434 5021 or hazel.roy@intergen.org.uk

Participants required for Interview Study on Older Adults and Physical Activity

How do you feel about physical activity?  Is it something you enjoy or not?  Why?  Would you like to be more physically active but find there’s nothing for you or that things get in the way?  Or are you happy with your level of physical activity, whatever it may be?  

If you are aged 65 years or older and you live in Ancoats, Ardwick, Cheetham, Clayton, Fallowfield, Gorton, Harpurhey, Hulme, Longsight, Moss Side, or Rusholme then let your views be heard.  

For more information please contact Mrs Angela Devereux-Fitzgerald on 0161 275 2593 or email angela.devereux@manchester.ac.uk