Women Thrive!
We created Women Thrive! as part of our desire to
become the principal hub for empowering women in this part of Oldham. Women Thrive!
meets twice each week. Members improve their wellbeing and disposition through
self-help to promote mutual flourishing. They learn self-confidence through
peer-to-peer support, and empowerment through participation in skills-building
activities. No one else does this kind of work.
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Monday sessions offer cooking skills. Each member also
receives a large bag of food from the Food Thrive! store.
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Friday sessions offer directed self-help through craft, coaching, and companionship. Again, participants receive a bag
of food.
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We signpost clients to the other appropriate projects
operating from within the Barnabas Centre and wider afield across Oldham.
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We will shortly start a third weekly session offering
numeracy skills such as budgeting and Excel; basic IT (comprising internet,
MS-Word, Canva, Zoom); job-related skills (CV writing); all the while
maintaining our strong emphasis on self-help and mutual support.
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We are exploring yet more occasional sessions in
collaboration with other agencies, principally Oldham Life-long Learning, to
offer literacy skills; health skills; life-skills; parenting skills, etc.
The members of
Women Thrive! demonstrate great diversity in terms of background, ethnicity,
creed, age, and family life.
Where
The project occurs in the Main Hall at
the Barnabas
Centre on Arundel Street, Clarksfield.
If you’re using satellite navigation, please use the postcode OL4 1NL.
When
Sessions occur 10 am to 1:00 pm, each Monday and
Friday of term-time.
Key sponsors
We wish to thank One Oldham Fund and the Council
for Social Action for grants
to fund a community worker to
set up this project.
Key partners
Fareshare
Lifelong
Learning Oldham
Council for
Social Action (Diocese of Manchester)
ROCA (Reaching
Our Communities Award, First Choice Homes Oldham
Further details
Please contact our community worker,
MaryAnne, on (07492) 849 158.
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Page last updated 7 December 2022