Real Food take part in King Street Festival

The Real Food Wythenshawe team took part in the King Street Festival in Manchester city centre during early June.

As part of the event, the team created a pop up park which helped to transform Manchester’s iconic & historic shopping street.

The event saw everything from an al fresco dining pop up restaurant to an art garden and crazy golf.

The Real Food team was selected to take part in the event after the success of the Allotment of the Future project in St Anne’s Square last summer, and also winning a Gold Award for their entry in Dig the City’ in 2015.

The event was a huge success with a great turnout and was a good opportunity for people to find out about the work the team does in Wythenshawe and beyond.

Real Food Wythenshawe is a project which aims to engage and excite local people in growing and cooking fresh, sustainable food.

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group’s executive director of housing Jacque Allen said, “This is a fantastic project for the Real Food team to be involved in and a fantastic opportunity to showcase the great work that they do in Wythenshawe to the city of Manchester and beyond. The team will be out and about at many different events throughout the summer including the Wythenshawe Games and RHS Tatton so make sure you come and say hello.”

Small business thrives in Wythenshawe

Enterprise is alive and well in Wythenshawe. Small businesses are said to be the backbone of the economy and make up the largest proportion of almost 3,300 businesses now located in Wythenshawe. Some of these are one-man bands, they could be working from home, or be part-time, but they are a valuable asset in the local economy.

Some of our small retail businesses can be found at the Crossacres Emporium, located on the first floor of the Crossacres Resource Centre on Peel Hall Road. Businesses vary from handmade gifts to up-cycled furniture, and holistic therapies to printing.

If you are a small business owner or thinking of starting a new business; you can find low cost office space at the Enterprise Centre on Benchill Road, or try their business support and advice service.

Contact the Enterprise Centre on 0161 945 0655

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Five years for Enterprise Centre

The Lord Mayor of Manchester, Carl Austin-Behan celebrated ‘five years in business’ with Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) at the Enterprise Centre in Wythenshawe in support of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

The Enterprise Centre is a thriving hub of activity for local small businesses and budding entrepreneurs.

The birthday celebration offered business advice workshops for local people and networking opportunities for local businesses and current business tenants.

The centre is a hub of networking and activity, which since opening has provided office space to over 80 businesses and provided business support to more than 250 Wythenshawe entrepreneurs. Over 1,000 local people have also been supported through free business advice and training.

Situated in the heart of the community the centre provides affordable all-inclusive office space and designated starter units alongside offering free business advice and support, workshops and training programmes for local people.

Executive Director of Housing at WCHG, Jacque Allen said: “Real Opportunities and The Enterprise Centre have supported 100’s of people into work. Either by helping people apply for jobs or by supporting them to start up in business. We will continue to support Wythenshawe people to use both these successful services for another 5 years! "