Wythenshawe Good Neighbours

23/04/2026

A grand St. George's Day selection of cakes and savouries 🍰 at our Coffee Morning at Strawberry Fox Cafe today. 🍓🦊 A real treat for our Members! Thanks 🙏 so much to the school, Emma and the student team for making it such a special occasion. Pioneer House High School 😀

04/04/2026

📢 WGN Manager, Samantha, is training for the Great Manchester Run (at the end of May).🎽 👟🏃

She's fundraising for our community group, and is aiming to raise £1,000 to subsidise two day trips 🚌 for our Members (older Wythenshawe residents). They will really enjoy a summer and an autumn day out - and they get to vote on suggested destinations.

If you can help Samantha reach her 🎯, please donate here 🙏👇:
https://gofund.me/655e732a6

We appreciate that times are tough, with the cost of living crisis. Any amount will be very much appreciated and will have a direct impact. Thanks.

Please go ahead and share the link if you'd like to help 'spread the word'.

03/04/2026

Our April Newsletter is out! On the front page is the superb news that WGN has been awarded 3-year funding from Manchester City Council Our Manchester Fund! 🙏

Also featured:
our quiz winners - pictured with their prizes; a healthy Blossom Mcr recipe; WGN Manager Samantha Days in training for the Great Manchester Run to fundraise for our group.

Also, a new spring quiz for our Members - and other WGN and Wythenshawe community news.

You can read our April Newsletter here:
https://wythenshawegoodneighbours.com/announcing-three-year-funding-for-wgn-in-our-april-2026-newsletter/

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!