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Healthy Start allows families to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and milk
(Picture taken by Bex Walton: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bexwalton/49770770361)

ATTENTION SALFORD PARENTS: You must reapply for NHS Healthy Start vouchers, you may lose your support if you don’t!

The NHS Healthy Start voucher program is changing to a pre-paid card system, requiring families to reapply for the scheme […]

Image credit - Jasmine Grimshaw

“There’s a generation that would come and tell you that they were the best days of our lives” – Salford scouting exhibition at RHS Garden Bridgewater

A new exhibition will explore 73 years of scouting at the RHS Bridgewater. Salford provided opportunities for young people in […]

Photos with permission from Glenn of Veterans Breakfast Club

New Swinton’s ‘Veterans Lunch’ project for the Armed Forces

The new ‘positive ‘Veterans Lunch’ has given Salford veterans the opportunity to gather and connect through their own shared experiences.  […]

Image by: Province of British Columbia, Flickr

“Without them, we would not be able to cope” – Salford City Council announces Real Living Wage increase to £9.90 for care workers

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bcgovphotos/45061808394   Salford City Council has announced it will pay all social care workers in Salford the Real Living Wage […]

“No matter what experience you have just come down” – Tindall Street Allotments gives veterans a community garden

The Anderson Shelter, a feature of the armed forces allotment (Taken by Thomas Bryer) Tindall Street Allotments is spearheading a […]

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Have you heard about the cursed skull of Wardley Hall? – Greater Manchester’s very own horror story

The recently-published book ‘Strange Manchester’ is a combination of horror stories located in Greater Manchester that have been passed down […]