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At the Angels & Salford
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR
SEASONAL OPENING TIMES
Last Shopping Day
Monday 21st Dec 09
Close at 4:30 pm
Re-opens
Monday 4th Jan 2010
10 am
All hire equipment booked over the
Christmas Holidays must be collected by
1 pm on Monday 21st Dec 2009
& returned by 10:30 am
Monday 4th Jan 2010.
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Good News!
Grumpy Manchester will be opening at The Angels on Monday 16th November 2009 from 10am.
Grumpy at the Angels
Salford has four new Play Development Officers who will be supporting and developing play provision across the city and implementing Salford’s Play Strategy, ultimately with the aim of improving the quality of play opportunities for the children and young people of Salford. The team will also support the existing BIG Lottery play projects in Salford, and consult children about play spaces with regards to the development of the DCSF Playbuilder Programme. The new Officers have over twenty-seven years’ experience working with children and young people between them across the voluntary and community sectors. Matthew Barker and Michelle Hagan have both joined from delivering and managing play for voluntary organisations in Manchester, while Gareth Stacey has moved to Salford after five years with Flintshire County Council’s Play Service. Stephanie Williams works with the team part-time, after six years working on play and sports projects across the city. Welcome to Salford !
Broughton kids prepare Halloween lanternsSalford Park Ranger Billy Masters and the volunteers down at the Church of Nazarene in Lower Broughton were helping local children to make lanterns for their Halloween parade in Albert Park on Saturday.
The simple laterns, which will have tealights inside them for the walking parade, were built by pasting tissue paper onto wooden sticks, which were soaked overnight to make them taut and strong.
As Billy says, the children also produced toadstools, bats and other spooky Halloween items to display on the night with GRUMPY – the Greater Manchester Play Resources Unit.
Around 50 children are expected to the Halloween walk through Albert Park in Lower Broughton on Saturday night, with the parade starting at 5pm and finishing at 7pm. There is also a pre-event party planned for the local children, from 3pm to 5pm.
The Church of Nazarene is currently open on a Monday and Tuesday for local families to bring down their children for a place to hang out and play, taking the pressure off mums and dads to find childcare for them in the afternoons or after school.
It's a wonderful place, but it's completely unfunded at the moment and oversubscibed, obviously. Out of everything going on there, this is the only thing that needs to change.
