Wythenshawe Good Neighbours

25/03/2026

The two winners of our Healthy Eating Quiz were chuffed at our Coffee Morning and Community Lunch this week. Each won a slow cooker (provided by Manchester City Council Wythenshawe South MCR Neighbourhoods Team 🙏) and Blossom Mcr Recipe Folder.

Our free raffle ensured everyone got a prize! Many thanks to FareShare Greater Manchester for providing the goodies to go around!

16/03/2026

📢 📰 Our WGN March 2026 Newsletter is now out.
🚍 In it, we announce our spring day-trip destination (as voted for by our Members - we had a great response!). 🥁 Drum roll… we're off to Trentham Gardens and Shopping Village Trentham Estate .
It also includes a healthy eating quiz, with a chance for two lucky WGN Members to each win a slow cooker and a Blossom Mcr recipe folder (plus some runners-up prizes). We've featured one of the Blossom recipes: Tomato and Basil Soup 🍅🌿 alongside it, for everybody to enjoy! Thanks Manchester City Council, Wythenshawe South Neighbourhoods Team and Blossom.
There's also a reminder that from March, holders of a Bee Network older personconcessionary pass can use it to travel for free anytime. This includes before 9.30am on all buses in Greater Manchester, and Bee Network buses that cross the Greater Manchester boundary.

You can read our March Newsletter here: https://bit.ly/4suPS32

18/02/2026

We're busy writing 📝 our March Newsletter. In the meantime, here's a chance to read our February 💌 issue, if you haven't seen it already.

It features:
- fascinating 'big-freeze' and warm-hearted February facts
- WGN news (including a chance for our Members to vote for their preferred spring day trip destination)
- also, Wythenshawe community news - including chair fitness exercise classes on Friday mornings at Northenden Social Club
https://bit.ly/4amRWUy


Chair exercise image does not show the actual class. Image is by: Elliot Manches via The Centre for Ageing Better.

23/01/2026

We had a good week. Members enjoyed a free Wellness Event at Northenden Social Club on Tue, picking up useful resources and chatting to local support organisations. The hearty leek and potato soup went down well too! 😋Thanks Manchester City Council Wythenshawe Neighbourhood for organising it.
At our Thursday ☕ morning Pioneer House High School Strawberry Fox Cafe Ruby the therapy 🐕 joined us. She's a star!

19/01/2026

This free Manchester City Council Wythenshawe Wellness Event looks good - tomorrow at Northenden Social Club. Some of our Members will be popping in for soup, health checks, and to pick up useful information/ cost of living and flood advice. There's also the Vaccination Van on site. Starts at 11am. All welcome. Manchester Local Care Organisation

14/01/2026

Lovely start to the New Year yesterday at our Community Lunch at Northenden Social Club . We had a free raffle - giving everyone a chance to win these lovely tins - full of hot chocolate ☕ 😋. A treat for this weather (donated by FareShare Greater Manchester 🙏).
Lots of happy winners!

01/01/2026

🥳 Wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year!

2025 has been a special year for us as we celebrated 15 years of WGN! Huge thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years and throughout 2025: our WGN Members and Volunteers; Co-op Members who raised funds for our group; community partners and venues; everyone who follows/likes us on our socials, and, of course, our core funders, Manchester City Council - plus project funders inc. Wythenshawe Neighbourhood Investment Fund, Age Friendly Manchester and Wythenshawe Community Housing Group. 🙏

Here's to continued community connections, friendships and support in 2026!

24/12/2025

16/12/2025

Nearly 30 of our Members had a festive time at the Christmas Lunch run by The Northenden Social Club (nearly 100 guests in total!). Our staff and volunteers helped with serving! Volunteer driver, Malcolm, brought some of those without other transport options.

Our Christmas cards are out too!

12/12/2025

Everyone enjoyed themselves at the lovely🍓🦊 Café at Pioneer House High School today - for the last of our ☕ mornings of this term/year. Great turn-out! Festive vibes all around and some fab 🦌⛄🎅🎄 Christmas jumpers (good effort)! We're back there on 15 January.

09/12/2025

Phew, what a busy WGN lunch! Nearly 30 people served (thanks to FareShare Greater Manchester for providing the mince pies). 4 happy competition and 6 free raffle prize winners. Happy birthday sung to our volunteer driver. Evaluation forms completed for our Gather, Eat and Move project (funded by Manchester City Council Age Friendly Team and Wythenshawe Community Housing Group ) + for the Wythenshawe Age Friendly Network Winter Warmer Bags campaign.

03/12/2025

Our Members have just enjoyed our final Gather, Eat & Move community lunch at Northenden. We served a delicious, home cooked free meal (🙏 Manchester City Council AFM Team & Wythenshawe Community Housing Group ). Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Rachel from Manchester Local Care Organisation joined us giving advice/info re eating, drinking and ageing well.