Wythenshawe Good Neighbours

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.

26/11/2025

At our Gather, Eat and Move lunch yesterday, everyone enjoyed a free, nutritious, hot meal - home cooked by The Northenden Social Club chef.

We invited Manchester Local Care Organisation Neighbourhood Health Champions to join us. They were fantastic and offered blood pressure tests, with follow-up advice, along with health screening information. They also signposted people to cost of living advice services etc.
Our thanks to them, and our Gather, Eat and Move project funders Manchester City Council AFM Team and Wythenshawe Community Housing Group

18/11/2025

For our Gather, Eat and Move project (funded by Manchester City Council Age Friendly Board & Wythenshawe Community Housing Group ) the South Manchester Community Falls Team visited our community lunch today at Northenden Social Club .

There was lots of interest in the falls prevention advice they gave and the printed resources and support materials. They also demonstrated a few simple chair exercises to our Members and changed the ferrules on walking sticks. Excellent! 👌