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Hoy metimos 10 kilómetros! Qué tal? Levantarse a las 6 de la mañana: 🤜💯🤛 . Conocimos un nuevo parque: Platt Fields Park. ✍ La familia Platt fue dueña de esta (en ese momento) finca privada en el año 1225, en 1625 pasó a la familia Worsley y en 1908 pasó a ser Parque Municipal. . El parque es hermoso, enorme y con un lago muy muy grande con patos, cisnes, todo muy bello... saaaalvo la basura que la gente deja por todos lados. 😡 . . . . . . #NenasLibres #BlogDeViaje #NenasLibresVeganFood #NLVF #Manchester #Viajeras #ArgentinasViajando #ViajePorElMundo #ElMundo #UK #ArgentinasEnManchester #Didsbury #PlattFieldsPark #PlattField #Park #ManchesterParks #Morning #GoodMorning #BuenDia #Ejercicios #Caminata #Salud #MujeresDeViaje #AlMundo #AroundTheGlove #Lgbt #LgbtTravel #LgbtTravellers #LgbtVegan #VeganLgbt (en Platt Fields Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5llxnAtMZ/?igshid=krrn48y9pbpp

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Check out the latest success story on the #PlasticFreeGM website - We're working with the lovely folks at @Envirolution Festival (Plattfields Park, Fallowfield) & hoping that this year, it'll be Greater Manchester's first #PlasticFree Festival!! @PlasticFreeGM

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[leahelizabethnicholson-blog]

Been looking on maps seeing what parks I'm close to so that I can possibly bike to some of them

Ladybarn park

Plattfields

Birchfields park

Old moat park

Fog lane park

Cringle park

High field country park

Peak district

Whitworth park

[diaryofagoosegirl2-blog]

Since deciding in order to get to the bird island in Plattfield park you must become a goose, I’ve been trying to visualise myself as one. I started off by doing a series of continuous line observational drawings in pencil and then going on top, drawing goose features in pen. This is just a starting point, to see how it looks and figure out ways to achieve it. 

[funraising-blog1]

Jamming with Jonah

Jonah Enyi Ogbuneke has to be one of the most proactive people that I’ve met all year. As president of the Big Change Society and chair of Manchester Students Ending Homelessness, he’s just launched the event campaign Love For The Streets. I spoke to Jonah in a Starbucks in Fallowfield (which has to be the millionth coffee shop that I've interviewed someone in), to chat about actually tackling homelessness, hip-hop and how the current approach to charity just doesn’t cut it.

We began our conversation by talking about the regional campaign The Big Change. The Big Change is a regional campaign that aims to tackle homelessness and more surprisingly, the ‘unsustainable’ way in which we give. Jonah shared a ‘basic issue’ with me, that ‘a lot of people want to support the homeless but just giving to people on the streets is not a long-term solution’. So, although The Big Change is a collecting fund for 20 different homeless charities, but its importance also lies in educating the masses. Since this is the case, a seat in the University of Manchester, one of the largest educational institutions in Europe, makes perfect sense. Essentially, Jonah’s role as the head of the student arm of the Big Change is not only large but of pretty vital importance.

Neither ‘large’ nor ‘important’ are words that I would use to describe Jonah’s attitude. Whilst he spoke at a hundred miles an hour, I found him unmistakably grounded and at points, even a comfort to speak to. He explained to me how amazing, and yet how unsupported platforms in aid of the homeless can be. Whilst he spoke about the website and app Street Support, I noted his enthusiasm and vigour.  ��... Manchester, Leeds, and Bournemouth and Portsmouth, they’re continuing to expand it, it’s absolutely incredible. It’ll take your location, it’ll  GPS your location…’ the spritely student reeled back a bit, ‘I don't know why I’m just talking about it, I can just pull it up, and then I can talk it through with ya. So, with Street Support you can literally go to services, it has my location, has my GPS and shit, then you can go to meals’.

Whilst Jonah’s voice didn't skip a beat, seemingly neither did the app. Street Support provides easy and quick information on accommodation, drop-ins, meals, food-banks and personal and health services. What this means is that if you see anyone on the streets, you can tell them where to go for any sort of tangible help. Street Support is so accessible that it ought to be a big game changer. Even just from current literature, from Black Mirror to the Emoji Movie, if anything is clear of our culture, it’s that technology plays a huge role in our lives. However hearing about Street Support made me realise that it doesn’t need to be such a dark instrument - if we’re going to be ruled by the online world we might as well use it for some good.

Jonah’s personal knowledge of services in support of the homeless was impressive, but what he really impressed on me was the need for more common knowledge. ‘There’s so much being done it’s just frustrating, the more I get into it the more I realise that these people work on absolute shoestring budgets to do amazing things. And I was like okay this needs to change. We need to get more people knowing what the hell they’re doing and we need to find more ways of supporting these people because it’s not right’. The conversation soon became student-specific. I was told that the entire 40,000 students as a group spent 20,000 hours fundraising overall last year. ‘That’s half an hour per student per year. An episode of Game of Thrones is longer than the amount of time a student spent fundraising over the course of a year’.

Jonah has seemingly never followed this trend. He even had a brief stint at HOME Fundraising. ‘I raised £16,000 for Cancer Research UK in six days, just door-knocking. My team raised £70,000 altogether in that period. It’s something I love doing, but I hate how it’s done’. Why? ‘Charity at the moment is cold marketing. It’s very ‘Quick, give me that, d-d-d-d-d-d-’’. Those are machine-gun noises just in case you didn’t get that on the first read. ‘Everyone’s time is really valuable, I hate the notion of someone coming to my door and getting me to sit down. It’s very invasive.’ And this wasn’t the only valid argument that he had - Jonah had clearly thought before about the faults of mainstream fundraising. ‘It’s inaccessible to grassroots charities, and it’s very rare you can catch caring people at the right time, so it’s also very unproductive’.

The ultimate ambition of Jonah’s campaign, Love for the Streets, is a festival in Plattfields Park, Fallowfield next May. In order to do this, his team have to raise c. £25,000, but as far as he’s concerned, its fruition is definite. Plans are already well underway and ensure high student involvement via. student food-stalls and a Manchester Through My Eyes tent, which will showcase student talent. A campaign based on music events is so relevant because sound is such is a powerful tool. Jonah’s favourite music is hip hop, rap and R and B. ‘Hip-hop is like spoken word but slightly cooler. If done in the right [manner], it can open up your mind to issues, and really shape your thoughts in a very positive way’. To Jonah, this is important because he thinks deeply about the concept of community. ‘If we’re being real, the value of [your] human life all comes down to what social impact you’re making while you’re here’.

In terms of his emotional complexity and understanding, Jonah struck me as quite the individual, but he also leads a remarkably multifaceted lifestyle. In supplement to his engagement in Love for the Streets and the Big Change, he’s just started the run of Change United, which guides and supports people who want to get their own projects on the go. Whilst his involvement in multiple campaigns has lent him the experience to do this, his keen sense of initiative and will to generosity must all be his own. Alongside his various projects, Jonah attends his studies in Chemical Engineering, he works at the Fallowfield Nando’s, and, as I found out upon the appearance of a team-mate, he regularly plays rugby. He’s even launching a creative portfolio on October the 9th. It really didn’t surprise me to hear that prior to our interview he’d only had a nights worth of sleep over the course of a full weekend. He told me that rugby helps him relax. ‘You focus on working with a team to win the game. It’s so fast-paced that you focus fully on what you’re doing in the moment’. This exciting description seemed reflective of Jonah’s lifestyle, rapid-fire, furious and still somehow socially in-touch. It didn’t seem all that relaxing. When I nudged at this he let me on to a more overtly calm activity: ‘Floats. they’re like meditation pods’. In response to what was probably a blank and gormless expression, he explained that floats are pods in which the water is saturated with salt so that while you’re in them it feels like you’re floating in space. ‘Just [like] flying basically. Not cheap but also very worth it. I need an hour and feel like I've had a week off’. At this, I was more in awe of how fitting this seemed than I was at the description of the floats themselves. An extraordinary and superhuman activity, for an extraordinary and super guy.

Jonah left the conversation on a solemnly inspirational note. ‘I could die tomorrow and I would have no regrets about how I’ve used my time. I know full well I’ve had an impact, so for me that’s success.’

Love for the Streets’ first event is this Saturday, the 30th of September. It’s at 256, Fallowfield all day and entry is completely free.

To find out more about the homelessness network ‘Street Support’, go to https://streetsupport.net/manchester/.

Or, download the app on the Play Store here, or Apple Store here.

[underthesun7-blog]

Plattfields Park therapy- frosty, fresh mornings get me through.

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Love for the Streets Launch 

This year, the Big Change Society is launching a campaign called Love for the Streets. Love for the Streets is an event series campaigning to raise awareness and money for homeless charities in Manchester.

Love for the Streets’ eponymous and first ever event is going to be held at 256 in Fallowfield on the 30th of September, and has never been imagined as a small affair. The September event was initially planned as an open air festival in Plattfields Park. When it didn’t work out, Jonah, the president of the Big Change Society, was not dissuaded. He pulled back and started to develop an entire campaign in its place. Just like that, Love for the Streets was born. The event on the 30th is set to have two stages, both complete with a heavy setlist. Notable members of the lineup include the huge city veterans of MAYDAY, everybody’s favourite golden oldies, Grandma’s Tea Party, and the smooth operators of Off-Beat, who are bringing Ed Solo to the Antwerp Mansion on October 17th. Oh, and there’s even an after-party confirmed. HIT & RUN are hosting all the big grime boys - that’s underground spinner Inka, DJ Rich Reason, who comes from cult-favourite known to some as Levelz, and dubstep’s finest - that’s Plastician if you didn’t already know. And what’s more, plans for a Plattfields send off are still on the go. If all goes to plan, and £30k is raised, you could be attending a festival in May. If the Love for the Streets lineup is this impressive now, who knows how the festival might turn out… 

Although Love for the Streets is a free party, it’s not only about having a good time. Since profits aren’t being made in ticketing, its objective is to raise awareness. This is not only awareness of the campaign for the success of future fundraisers, nor is it only awareness surrounding the issue of homelessness: The event also aims to educate people on what they can do in order to properly make a difference.

In a sense, Love for the Streets is the essential mouthpiece for the heart of its host, The Big Change Society. The Big Change Society works closely with a multitude of homeless charities. Its president, Jonah Enyi Ogbuneke, told me that these charities not only work ‘with virtually no support’, but also on ‘absolute shoestring budgets’. I found this an honest shock, where a little investigation on my part might have found it obvious, and it became clear to me why campaigns like Love for the Streets are so necessary. Without any talk, buzz or even a little hubbub, there’s no way that a big change can be made. Which brings me onto an exclusive announcement: Speaking, and therefore bringing the talk at the launch party, is mayor of Greater Manchester, and Labour MP Andy Burnham. You’re clicking ‘going’ on the event page now. I hate to think how many computer mouses (mice?) I’ve just broken.

Seeing that Love for the Streets’ first event has politicians involved, that it features so many collectives, and hearing that it’s grown to 40 members before the semester has even begun, it’s clear that people care about the fight to raise awareness about homelessness. People are more than willing to dedicate their time  to tackling this incomprehensibly huge issue. The more people that are on board, the more likely it is that money will start to flow in a more sensitive direction.

If you skim read this, I’m not about to tell you off - here’s what you need to know:

Love for the Street’s launch party is at 256, Fallowfield from 12pm til 10pm. Entry is free. So is the chance to see Andy Burnham speak directly to the student population.

The HIT AND RUN afterparty kicks off at the same venue at 10pm and finishes at 3am. Tickets are just £1.50 on first release, so get them now right here.

And one last thing, in follow-up to Love for the Streets’ launch party, we’re planning a Funraising x Love for the Streets mystery event on the 10th of October, which is World Homelessness Day. We’re really excited to get involved and we have a bunch of ideas on the go, so we’ll be releasing more about it as we go along. Stay tuned and hold tight - it’s set to be a wild year, and hopefully one for change.

[rob-sidlow]

Sunny days #bmx #24mm #skatepark #manchester #plattfields #summer (at Platt Fields Park)

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First skate in a long time. After slaming skating to the shops went down platts for a quick skate this morning. Feels good:-) #skateboarding #plattfields #vanshalfcab #goodtimes

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#plattfields #church in the morning. #rusholme. #manchester #igersmcr (at Platt Fields Park)

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Happy place #bmx #mcr #sunset #manchester #plattfields #hyperbmx #snafu (at Platt Fields Park)

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Flower falls

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Stanner steeze back in warmer times💥 Repost from the man'dem @landscapeskateboards #BlackSheepFamily #ManchesterSkateboarding #PlattFields #GreaterManchester #Landscape #Skateboards 👉@nick_stannerz 👈 @AdidasSkateboarding @volcomskate (at Platt Fields Park)

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View of eclipse from Platt fields park, Manchester

20 March 2015