An Age Friendly Date to Remember

To mark the International Day of Older Persons, this guest post from Maria Ramos acevedo, our Culture Champions Volunteer Assistant, describes some of the recent age-friendly activities supporting older adults across the city and region, and shares some of the plans for future work that will be undertaken by the newly-launched Creative Ageing Development Agency…

Age-friendly culture: a powerful resource

This guest post from Emma Horridge offers some insights into her work as Age-Friendly Culture Champions Manager for Greater Manchester. It is also a chance for us to say farewell to Emma, to wish her all the best in the future as she moves on to pastures new, and to thank her for all of…

Museum Volunteering

To mark Volunteers Week this guest post from our Curator of Community Exhibitions, Andrea Winn, celebrates the wonderful work of Manchester Museum’s volunteers. This week is Volunteer Week: an opportunity to say a massive thank you to all our amazing volunteers for the time, enthusiasm, passion and support that they give to the museum. During…

Championing Age-Friendly Culture

A guest post from Emma Horridge, Age-Friendly Culture Champions Manager (Greater Manchester), on some recent conferences that she has attended to share the best practices developed through the Greater Manchester Culture Champions programme. In September and October, I was fortunate enough to be invited to a number of conferences to speak about the Greater Manchester…