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OPEN GARDENS Didsbury & Chorlton
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CARITAS CARE Fostering & Adoption
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CHARITY GUITAR TRAIL Sunday, 12th June
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THE DIDSBURY FESTIVAL Saturday, 11th June
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DIDSBURY TAG NEWS Save more, buy better, shop local
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DIDSBURY ARTS FESTIVAL Competitions
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DIDSBURY DINNERS RECIPE Fruity Oat Bran Loaf
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VILLAGE DRY CLEANERS A family run business
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JUNE IN YOUR GARDEN Katherine Watson
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EDITOR/ADVERTISING © Chava Eichner
Lesley Swann
SUB-EDITOR Sam Paechter
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Here in Didsbury, more than 25 public and private gardens will open this year, in aid of St Anne’s Hospice and The Alzheimers Society. Last year 1,000 people, young and old, walked or cycled between the gardens and the event raised over £8,000 for good causes. The organisers hope to smash through the £25,000 barrier this year, which also happens to be the 40th Anniversary of St Anne’s Hospice.
Programmes (at £5) are on sale at Chorlton Bookshop on Wilbraham Road, Blossom Flowers on Manchester Road, Creative Recycling on Beech Road and Chorlton Plant Nursery on Vicars Road. If you need more information or have difficulty getting to Chorlton to buy programmes contact Merryn at dmcooke@btinternet.com or 861 0153.
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Inspired by the success of Didsbury Open Gardens, Chorlton is also holding it’s first event this year. Over 20 gardens and yards plus two allotments, a school garden and the green roof above Unicorn Grocery will be open to raise funds for the charity Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture. The charity provides therapeutic, medical and legal help for refugees who have been tortured or lived through communal violence.
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All the family can enjoy Didsbury Open Gardens, knowing that it is in a very good cause. The event will take place on Sunday 12th June from 12 noon till 5.30pm. Programmes (£5) are available at The Cheese Hamlet, Inman’s Newsagents and Delia’s Florist. www.didsburyopengardens.org for news and updates.
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There are bountiful delights and secret gardens, scrumptious cakes, live Jazz and beautiful sculpture by local artist Judy Taylor. Then there’s the Chainsaw Wood carving from Didsbury’s very own Andy Burgess and an exhibition of Mosaic flowers, made by pupils from Elm Grove and Broad Oak primary schools. Local artist, Sally Almond, who ran the school mosaics workshops will also be exhibiting some of her own sculptures that will soon be at The Eden Project where Sally will run workshops. The Open Gardens Photography competition will also be repeated after last year’s success.
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Entry by programme to over 25 gardens/yards/allotments (under 13s free) Programmes on sale from early May at: Chorlton Bookshop (Wilbraham Road) Creative Recycling (Beech Road) Blossom Flowers (Manchester Road) Chorlton Nursery (Vicars Road)
Caritas Care
Caritas Care is a registered charity, established voluntary adoption agency and independent foster care provider, recruiting families for children throughout the North West. We offer high quality services to children and families, excellent preparation training and on going support. Children waiting for placements come from diverse backgrounds. We welcome enquiries from anyone regardless of marital status, disability, gender, religion, or sexual orientation interested in making a positive difference for these children, many of whom often have to be separated from their brothers and sisters. We are particularly seeking families for sibling groups of children so that they can continue to live together. Could you be this family? If you wish to learn more about fostering or adoption please contact us on 01772 732313 or 0161 445 2933 to request an information pack or to speak to a member of our experienced and helpful team, who will be available to answer any of your questions. Information is also available on our website at www.caritascare.org.uk.
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Charity Guitar Trail 3 Alexander Technique Fletcher Moss Gardens Near Didsbury Village, Manchester, M20 2SW Sunday 12th June, from 1.30pm Now in its third year, the Charity Guitar Trail is a unique experience that is a must have and cannot be missed! Dedicating a warm summer afternoon to nothing but acoustic guitar tunes. The purpose of the event is to give the people of Greater Manchester a quality family day out and also raise money for ‘Music in Hospitals.’ If you would like to play, please contact us on: Peter: 07930 342 142
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The Didsbury Festival Saturday 11th June
The 32nd Didsbury Festival is fast approaching – Saturday 11th June - and the Festival Team is frantically putting the finishing touches to all the arrangements, ensuring a wonderful fun day out for the whole community. As always, the Festival begins with the Procession which leaves St Catherine’s School at 11.00 am and passes through the Village on its way to Didsbury Park. All the local primary schools and many other groups take part and the procession has grown in both quality and number with each passing year; though we (and the Police) feel it has now reached its maximum level with over one thousand participants. The theme this year is “Films and Movies� and it promises to be a star-studded parade. It is amazing how much trouble is taken in producing costumes and what fantastic ideas some people come up with. We will not be awarding any Oscars but we do have two new trophies which have been generously donated for the procession. Following the arrival of the
procession in the park and the presentations, the entertainment in the arena begins.
children in the refreshment area and, of course, there is the funfair.
This year we have re-introduced the inter-pub Tug-o-War, which will be followed by the ever popular Zehara and her Gipsy Dancers. The young dancers of the Didsbury Children’s Theatre and the Broad Oak Cheerleaders will then entertain us with their energetic routines before we experience a gentler form of exercise with a Tai Chi Chuan demonstration. The afternoon rounds of with the final of the Inter-School Tag Rugby Competition which will be taking place throughout the day.
One of last year’s highlights which proved very popular with all members of the family was ‘Didsbury’s Got Talent’ and which will be repeated this year. Several bands have already been booked including ‘The Bet Shop Boys’.
Around the park we have all the familiar stalls which are run by the members of local organisations, schools and charity groups to raise funds for and awareness of their group’s activities. There will be plenty of activities to participate in - Lacrosse, Mini-Tennis, Little Kickers Football, and you can take on the former City goalkeeper, Eric Nixon, when you try to Beat the Goalie. There will also be craft activities for
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Didsbury Tag News COMMUNITY NEWS
The Tagpassiton scheme has been designed to help community groups raise money; every £5 card bought from a charity, school or community group raises £2.50 for their cause. In Didsbury you can support Cavendish Rd Primary School, Broad Oak Primary School and Mencap (through the Co-op on Burton Road) by buying your cards from the school offices or in store. Tagpassiton cards give you great savings time after time with fabulous independent traders in your local area. Didsbury, Chorlton, The Heatons, Levenshulme and Cheadle all have vibrant, independent businesses that are working together to encourage us to consider the community when we spend - so come along with a tagpassiton card in hand (or on key ring) and join in! DIDSBURY FESTIVAL We are sharing a stall with Lesley from Community Index at the Didsbury Festival and will be talking about the Scheme and selling Tagpassiton cards. £2.50
from each card sold on the day will be donated to Festival Funds. Please also come along and say hello as we would love to hear some personal feedback. NEW OFFERS FOR CARDHOLDERS INCLUDE: 10% off at Fresh Save Fruit and Veg shop (near M & S) Shafiq and the boys sell a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, flowers and plants, seeds, tinned goods and spices. Free membership for one month from Social Circle; Manchester’s premier social & adventure network, connecting like minded people through fun local events. Meet new people and try new things with up to 100 events each month. Marjorie at Orchard Interiors offers a delightful designers guild large scented candle in beautiful gift box (RRP: £33) for orders over £250 (while stock lasts). Orchard Interiors stock a wide range of simple, fresh & contemporary homeware to shabby chic along with made to measure curtains, blinds, upholstery, wallpaper & friendly
interior design service. 10% Off When You Spend Over £20 in the gift shop at Orchard Interiors too. Free initial consultation with the David Ellison Architectural Practice. 10% off Dry Cleaning with Village Dry Cleaners Chorlton renowned for their wedding dress dry cleaning service. Please see our website www. tagpassiton.com for details of these offers and many more. CONGRATULATIONS! In a recent prize draw for registered cardholders Mr Ian Hyde is the lucky winner of a complementary hair cut or shave from The Gentry Grooming Co in Didsbury Village. Jon and his team put the Great into British grooming, as Ian will be finding out very soon. Don’t forget to register your cards for entry into the next draws!
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Totally DAF About Arts! Didsbury Arts Festival competitions
Writers, poets and photographers are invited to show off their talents during Didsbury Arts Festival 2011. Three major competitions are open to artists of all ages from within and outside Didsbury. A photography competition open to both amateur and professional photographers will be judged by local photographers, Len Grant, Penny Skerret and Alan Towse. The theme of the competition is ‘Stories’ and the closing date for entries is 1st August. For budding writers, the Festival’s open poetry and short story competitions will provide an exciting challenge. The theme of both competitions is ‘Maps’. Blue Murder writer, Cath Staincliffe and Didsbury poet Jeffrey Wainwright will be among the judges. Last year’s competitions attracted entrants from as far afield as Devon and Sussex. The closing date for entries is 5th August. Didsbury Arts Festival 2011 will take place from Saturday 24th September to Saturday 1st October. Local artists, organisations and individuals are invited to support the eight-day celebration which, last year, attracted over 10,000 visitors. An exciting and eclectic Festival programme will represent a huge range of the arts from music, theatre and comedy to visual arts, crafts and writing. www.didsburyartsfestival.org
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Didsbury Dinners Recipe
Fruity Oat Bran Loaf - Dot Thomlinson, Parrs Wood Rural Studies Centre Makes a 900g/2lb loaf 280ml/175g/½ pint mug sultanas 280ml/190g/½ pint mug demerara sugar 280ml/100g/½ pint mug oats with bran 280ml/½ pint mug soya, nut or oat milk 280ml/190g/½ pint mug self-raising flour • Place first four ingredients into a mixing bowl and stir well. • Leave overnight or for at least 2 hours. • Mix in self-raising flour and stir well. • Pour into a 2lb (900g) loaf tin. • Place in preheated oven at 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3 for about an hour. • Test by inserting a needle – if it comes out clean it is ready. • If not, give it another 5 minutes or so cooking time.
The Parrs Wood Rural Studies Centre is a four-acre oasis tucked away next to the Parrs Wood Leisure complex in East Didsbury. Within its grounds are a mixed woodland, meadow and pond, two orchards, fruit and herb gardens, a greenhouse with tropical plants and more. The orchards provide an abundance of fruit in the harvest season, which is preserved by expert jam makers from the Friends of Parrs Wood Rural Studies Centre Group. Jams and preserves are sold at fund raising open days. www.parrswoodruralstudies.org.uk
“This is like a really moist tea loaf, and couldn’t be easier to make. Perfect for Sunday breakfast or for afternoon tea with some homemade raspberry or damson jam.” Recipe reproduced from Didsbury Dinners: The Low-Carbon Community Cookbook, with kind permission from the editor Amanda Woodvine.
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June In Your Garden
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plants either by dividing them or wuddly or evangelical, there are Some years ago, I got together by taking cuttings. In June you lots of ways to share gardening with a few friends to form a can divide your spring flowering that might take a bit of pressure monthly gardening group called plants and bulbs and give some off the individuality of it. At Sluggers – so called to reflect to a neighbour or friend. You can the practical end there are the amount of wine we drank also take softwood cuttings of community allotments – where throughout the course of the things like penstemon, lavender, you could get involved in helping evening but also because it phlox, carnations. I’d have a go out with the plot (for example was a terribly witty and clever on anything with newish, fleshy see www.en4m.org.uk). There’s gardening name even though, at growth (instead of woody bits), also the open garden’s schemes that time, not many of us were by cutting a bit off below a leaf in Chorlton & Didsbury in June terribly clever or witty in our joint about 8-10cm long and where you can see what other gardens. In fact apart from a few bunging two or three in a small people have done and quiz them notable composting exceptions, pot covered with a see-through about preferred methods of slug most of us were happy (to drink plastic sandwich bag. If you’ve prevention. Vita Sackville-West and) to look pretty things up in got a free windowsill pop it on was a great advocate of noseying Gardener’s World that we might • year Back, Neck & Joint Pains • Back, Neck & you Joint Pains that and should have a few around other people’s gardens grow next if we had time. new plants in the same amount for planting ideas stating that But there was and is something • Sports Injuries • Sports Injuries of weeks – perfect for taking “Nothing could be more useful about the allocation of shared round Assessments to a friends with a bottle to the amateur gardener than time to gardening that creates • Ergonomic Assessments • Ergonomic of wine and a copy of Gardeners to observe other people’s ideas, more of a desire to get out and World. Massage other people’s successes, and experiment with new thingsMassage as • Deep Tissue • Deep Tissue other people’s failures”. But well as the confidence to try Katherine Watson, • might Podiatry • Podiatry Fat Grass one of the best ways of sharing things you not by yourself. Garden Designs gardening is to share your actual Without sounding to cuddly-
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SUMMER FESTIVAL Sunday 3RD July 2011•12 Noon This is the 14th year of this amazing festival in Beech Road Park, Beech Road and Chorlton Green Live Music in the Park with local bands playing till 7pm. Unity Arts with their special brand of fun and music for children Lots of interesting stalls around the Park and on the Green All along Beech Road, every shop is open and food from all around the world on offer Folk music at the Beech Pub with Les Jones and friends plus Amouse Bouche singing acapella
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Building & Maintenance Best Cellars Broadoak Preservation Devine Building & Maintenance
15 6 2
Carpet Cleaning Profresh
19
Chimney Sweep Acorn Chimney Sweeping services
19
greenh
22
Village Dry Cleaners
18
Andrew Maunsell Reynolds Electrical
19 9
Computer Services Dry Cleaners Electrician
Estate Agent JP & Brimelow
17
Strides of Manchester
10
Fashion
23 Please note: Community Index accepts no responsibility for transactions entered into or work undertaken by any of the businesses advertising in the Index or any loss, harm or damage arising from using any of the products & services listed.
Beech Road Festival
21
Devine Floorsanding
14
Floors
Food & Drink
Barbakan Delicatessen
8
Caritas Care
5
Fostering & Adoption Furniture & Joinery D L Enterprises
14
Fat Grass Garden Design
20
Select Plumbing & Heating
22
Didsbury Handyman
19
Jomo Intereriors Northwest Sunblinds www.planetvintagegirl.com
4 19 4
Gardens
Gas Engineer Handyman
Homes & Interiors
Kitchens Devine Kitchens Tarling & Tarling
22 15
Social Circle
24
Leisure
Osteopathy Burton Road Clinic
7
Petpals
9
Pets
Physiotherapy Village Physio
20
Select Plumbing & Heating
22
Plumbers Roofer
M Duffin
2
Schools/Nurseries
5
Kidsunlimited
Shopping
Tagpassiton Didsbury
12
Alexander Technique
7
Therapy & Healing
Useful Numbers Council
Gas Emergency 0800 111 999
Manchester City Council 234 5000
GMPTE 0870 6082 608
www.manchester.gov.uk
Bus, Train & Tram 228 7811
Environment on Call 954 9000
Rail Enquiries 0845 7484 950
Didsbury Library 227 3755
NHS Direct 0845 4647
Friends of Didsbury Park www.friendsofdidsburypark.co.uk
Police - non emergency 872 5050
Friends of Fletcher Moss Park Alan Hill 445 1535
Local Councillors Didsbury East Andrew Simcock cllr.a.simcock@manchester.gov.uk
Andrew Taylor cllr.a.taylor@manchester.gov.uk
David Sandiford cllr.d.sandiford@manchester.gov.uk
Local Councillors Didsbury West Mark Clayton cllr.m.clayton@manchester.gov.uk
Graham Shaw cllr.g.shaw@manchester.gov.uk
David Ellison cllr.d.ellison@manchester.gov.uk
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Samaritans 236 8000
www.samaritans.org
Community Didsbury Amateur Dramatics www.celestaplayers.co.uk Didsbury Civic Society www.didsburycivicsociety.org.uk Didsbury Cricket Club http://didsburyccsports.co.uk Didsbury Good Neighbours www.didsburygoodneighbours.com Marie Greenhalgh 07749 504298
Didsbury Village East Residents Association www.dvera.co.uk Didsbury Village Women’s Institute www.didsburyvillagewi.co.uk
Friends of Marie Louise Gardens www.marielouisegardens.org.uk Oxfam Didsbury 434 5380 South Manchester Camera Club www.smcc.org.uk West Didsbury Residents Association www.westdidsbury.org.uk Pam Siddons 445 5406 West Didsbury Society for Writers Jane Woolley 957 1663
Didsbury Over 50s Group 247 2323
Services Citizens Advice 0870 126 4094
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