Creating age-friendly communities
in Greater Manchester
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Ambition for Ageing eBulletin, February 2019
Welcome to the latest issue of our e-bulletin which contains all the latest news from Ambition for Ageing HQ as well as updates from our partners.
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Ambition for Ageing
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Ambition for Ageing’s Working Potential programme has recently released a briefing that outlines how Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations can support older carers as employees or potential employees and therefore lead by example in this area.
Download the briefing from the Ambition for Ageing website
If you are an employer interested in taking part in Working Potential, please contact Nisha Frizzell, Employer Engagement Officer on nisha.frizzell@gmcvo.org.uk or visit here for more information.
Reminder: Two days until Culture Champions deadline - noon, 13th February
Our Culture Champions project has been developed in partnership with the Great Place GM project. It seeks to develop an innovative, age-friendly cultural offer across GM, to be driven by volunteers known as Culture Champions, the basis of which is the successful Manchester Age-Friendly Culture Champions project; a large-scale volunteer ambassador project which has successfully engaged a wide range of people over 50.
Culture Champions aims to include a wide range of older people in cultural activity and volunteering and to broaden the cultural offer taking place in communities. We are particularly interested in proposals which focus on reaching older people at risk of social isolation and those older people who do not currently access cultural activity in their local areas.
One project will focus on Manchester and there will be projects in three of the seven other districts that Ambition for Ageing work in: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Wigan, Salford and Wigan.
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Manchester Institiute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA)
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Kirsty Bagnall, Comms and Influence Officer for Ambition for Ageing, will present her findings from her report, 'Resilience in an Ageing Greater Manchester' that looks at the needs of older people in resilience planning, with a particular focus on marginalised communities. The report suggests that although older adults can be particularly vulnerable during times of shock, they also possess assets that can contribute to preparedness for shocks.
When: Wednesday 20th March 2019, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Where: St Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester M12 6FZ
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Greater Manchester Older People's Network supported by Macc
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Following on from the recent Celebration Event, the GMOPN are pleased to launch new working groups for 2019. There will be three groups, each focusing on a different area: Housing, Transport and Health.
The groups will meet every two months, to share news on what work is already going on in GM and to plan work for the network to focus on throughout the year. We hope to get as many older people involved as possible, so whether you have been involved with the network before or not, please consider coming along and getting your voice heard.
Dates:
Housing – 27th February
Health – 6th March
Transport – 13th March
All take place 2:00pm – 3:00pm at Macc, 3rd Floor, Swan Buildings, 20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW.
If you are interested in attending, please email GMOPN@macc.org.uk or call Victoria on 0161 834 9823.
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Equalities Board supported by LGBT Foundation
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Future-focussed Equalities Board meeting
The Equalities Board are looking for a good turnout of individuals and organisations members to their next meeting, which will take the form of a workshop. Local delivery lead staff are also very welcome. The meeting will look the potential role of an equalities forum for Greater Manchester after Ambition for Ageing finishes in March 2020, and what form this could take.
When: Tuesday 19th February, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: LGBT Foundation
Refreshments provided.
Register: Please email hannah.berry@lgbt.foundation by Friday 15th February if you plan to attend.
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GMCA
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Ambition for Ageing's new report, ‘Building Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods in Greater Manchester’, and complementary briefings, draw on research and learning gathered from over 3,000 participants of the AfA programme to provide insight into what older people across GM think makes a neighbourhood age-friendly. The findings have been released as a report, Building Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods in Greater Manchester and two briefings:
Click here to read the full report and briefings.
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Other
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Social Eating Vacancy: Research Assistant at Talk Listen Change (TLC)
In partnership with seven other organisations, TLC are currently leading delivering of our Social Eating programme.
They are looking for a Research Assistant to monitor and evaluate the social eating projects, analyse impact, extract learning and pull this together into a ‘how to guide’ for others looking to do similar work in future. They will also expect the Research Assistant to carry out project management, being responsible to GMCVO for delivery of the overall programme, coordinating sub-contractors and ensuring performance against agreed targets.
Click here for more information.
People over 50, and into later life, are reporting that their sexual health and wellbeing is commonly overlooked when they seek professional help. Age Friendly Manchester want to hold a conversation with people over 50, health professionals and academics to talk about how we can challenge stereotypes and develop guidance to better meet the needs of over 50s.
When: Thursday 14th February 2019, 2:00pm to 5:00pm at Friends Meeting House
Standardising Acute and Specialised Care in Greater Manchester workshop
Thursday 7th March 2019, 10:30am - 2:30pm, Manchester M1 3DG. (Free)
On the 7th March 2019, the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) is meeting with their GM wide patient reference group to provide an update of work undertaken so far in relation to standardising acute and specialised hospital care across GM, share next steps and provide an opportunity to answer audience questions. They would like to extend an invitation to the GM VCSE sector and have therefore reserved 10 places for organisations who work with Protected Characteristic Groups/Communities to attend.
If you are interested in getting involved in this workshop, can you please send a short summary of your interest and how you link into communities/protected groups to jacqueline.robinson7@nhs.net no later than Friday 15th February 2019.
To access further background information on this work, click here.
Have you found this eBulletin useful?
If you would like to give us any feedback on this eBulletin, or suggest subjects or themes you would like to see covered in future, please email lucy.north@gmcvo.org.uk
Date of next edition: 11th March 2019
For regular Ambition for Ageing updates throughout the month, please see the news page on our website and follow us on Twitter.
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