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AWE Project commence their Taster Days
31st August 2010
Its time to be Artistic in Atherton and Inventive in Ince!
Free Arts and Enterprise sessions are taking place throughout September at Community Centres in Atherton and Ince. Everyone is welcome!
The AWE Project is aimed at adults in the Wigan Borough who want to learn new skills, who want to make positive changes in their lives, or simply want to have fun!
To discover more about AWE and meet the people involved in the exciting project come along to AWE taster days.
The first taster Day is Wednesday 1st September at Ince Community Centre- 1pm-3pm.
A warm welcome along with tea, coffee, and home-made cakes and biscuits is promised.
There is no pressure to join any groups. The taster sessions are two hours long but spaces are being taken quickly, so to reserve your place at the venue of your choice fill in an application form online at:
awesomefutures.org.uk/#/application-form/4538977762
or text AWE to 077028 111 24
Courier August 24th published
27th August 2010
The 24th August edition of the Wigan Courier has been published, featuring Wigan Life Centre's topping out by the Council's Chief Executive Mrs Joyce Redfearn,a super summer sale at Abbott & Smith Furnishers, the not-to-be-missed Beer and Cider Festival at the Crown Hotel in Worthington ( August 26th - 30th), a great offer for senior citizens at the White Crow in Worthington, the Star Trekkers Ladies Walk for Wigan and Leigh Hospice, and Wish FM, our local radio station, comes to Langtrees Restaurant at Standish Golf Club on September 12th. There's also more information for the public about the proposed new health centre for Standish.
Courier offers low price job advertising
27th August 2010
ARE YOU PAYING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR JOB ADVERTISING??
You will be if you advertise your vacancy with Lancashire Publications Limited! One company, Falkirk-based Johnston Press, owns all these titles. All different circulations, with a massive price for advertising a job vacancy. Despite the fact that it’s the SAME PERSON looking at the SAME PAGE in their papers, they charge far more for a job ad on one page than for ads on other pages of the same paper.
The all-colour, Wigan-owned, good news only Wigan Courier covers more than 34,000 homes, newsagents and distribution points in Wigan
We don’t believe that customers advertising jobs should be charged a fortune, so we’ve decided to SLASH the price of job advertising in the Courier to help you fill your vacancy cheaply and get the local economy on the move. We want to help the businesses that have supported the Courier throughout the recession and before that, so all current display advertising customers in the Courier will be given the opportunity to take either ad size 1 or ad size 2 FREE OF CHARGE from now on. It’s one ad per customer per edition, when running your display ad. Minimum paid ad size to qualify for this Free Offer is 10cms deep x 3 cols.
The Big Society Conference
9th August 2010
By Joe Taylor
What does Big Society mean to thousands of volunteers already active in their communities?
Wigan volunteers will get the opportunity to find out when Neil Smith, policy manager for the Community Action & Campaigning Team at Cabinet Office, speaks to a gathering of community activists from across the North West at the Mechanics Institute, on September 2nd.
His presentation will be geared around questions and topics forwarded in advance from the North West Community Activists Network.
These include: the role of community organisers, who will appoint them, what choice do neighbourhood groups have regarding community organisers and their training, how will neighbourhood groups hold Local Authorities to account after the dismantling of Regional Government and Regional Agencies, how will Big Society give power to neighbourhood groups and what will that power be?
Oldham’s Maxine Moar, a member of the National Association for Neighbourhood Management Steering Group, will also speak at the conference, as will a representative from the National Coalition for Independent Action.
Information about the North West Community Activists Network can be found at www.nwcan.org.
The conference runs from 9.30 am to 1.30, no entrance charge, lunch will be provided, pre-booking is essential - contact info@nwcan.org.
Newspaper Circulations in Wigan - the truth
4th August 2010
In recent weeks there appears to have been some confusion about exactly what the circulations of the various newspapers in Wigan are. In particular we have been concerned at the Courier that representatives of Lancashire Publications have been indicating to customers that the circulation of our paper is 'only 14,000.' The attached pdf reveals all for your information and the avoidance of any confusion in the future.
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