Moss Side fun day, 27th May (Bank Holiday Monday)

Save Fallowfield Library demonstration…

As the organisers had to say on Facebook – this is just the beginning! Too many people use and need this library to take it away from the community.

Save Fallowfield Library demonstration, 7th March

Fallowfield Library is a vital local resource – not just for books and literacy, but also as a space where community groups meet, and a place where people who can’t afford computers and broadband can get online for information, contact and job applications.

Winter conditions: gritting

During the current icy weather, residents of the Cranswick Square area may find it useful to know that there is a grit bin on the corner of Broadfield Road and Bowes Street. Any local residents can use it, and the council will top it up if the grit gets used up.

Moss Side Community Allotment: the movie!

Moss Side Community Allotment open day

Tomorrow, Saturday 15th September, is Moss Side Community Allotment’s grand open day. There will be members of the allotment team there to answer questions and show you the amazing strides we’ve made in less than a year. There’ll be refreshments and you’ll be able to sample some of the local, organic produce we’ve grown on the site this summer.
You’ll also be able to find out about future plans, including the chickens which will be coming to live on the allotment in a couple of weeks’ time, the ponds which we’ll be building to attract frogs and newts to keep allotment pests down, the wildflower gardens planned to help attract bees and other beneficial insects, and a proposed herb garden.
Moss Side Community Allotment is about creating a welcoming environment where local residents can work together to get to know one another, reduce our carbon footprint and other environmental impacts, produce cheap, nutritious fresh fruit and vegetables for us and our families, get exercise and fresh air, and generally have fun!
BBC Radio Manchester will be broadcasting live from the open day at 11.45 if you can’t make it down.
The Open Day runs from 10am, and more information on this and other allotment open days around Manchester can be found here.

Cranswick Square in The Guardian!

“It’s had only a fragment of the investment pumped into the new Emerald City of glass, but enough to turn it around, to build better relations with the police, as well as places like the Powerhouse library and family homes, to allow locals to tend the flowers in Cranswick Square and to tempt wannabes who can’t afford Didsbury. Indeed, 2011′s census has Moss Side’s population up 30% in a decade, mostly young families. Plus, crime’s lower than in Didsbury”

… says The Guardian Money section’s ‘Let’s Move To..’ Section on Friday 7th September, in a special on Moss Side. Moss Side Community Allotment also gets a mention. The full article is here.