Wythenshawe Good Neighbours

Name of organisation

Wythenshawe Good Neighbours

Summary

Wythenshawe Good Neighbours (WGN) provides social and creative opportunities for citizens aged 50+ in the Wythenshawe community to engage with their community, be it as a service user, a volunteer, a collaborator or simply helping an older person to live a more independent life. They do this through recruitment, selection, training and extended support of volunteers, improving the social networks of their older citizens and signposting them to activities and social spaces within their own community. Specific activities befriending, community lunches and trips out, advocacy and provision of advice and guidance, social, cultural and economic opportunities and creating more positive images of older citizens in promotional materials.

Proposed activities

They will continue to support the local neighbourhood, and want to raise the profile of WGN in the area to attract more volunteers to cope with the increasing demand for their services. In addition WGN plan over the next 3 years to develop an age friendly later life resource which will include a welcoming, homely space in a community setting for residents and volunteers and a designated training space.

Neighbourhoods they operate in

They primarily work with residents in the Wythenshawe ward

Website

Postal address

Location

Contact email

thegpprojects@live.co.uk

Contact phone

07875 286 866