During this pandemic we have witnessed families facing a lot of challenges from mental health issues to access to food because of loss of jobs or not being able to access benefits. Bolton CDP has set up a regular food bank program that helps to reach out to individuals and families within the community, so...
BCDP in partnership with Ambition for aging , Precious gems , Bolton CVS , Bolton university and Halliwell Neighbourhood management, is happy to be hosting Dementia awareness day event. Please come along for our tea and coffee session to find out more about dementia. There will also be a tester session for circle dancing for dementia....
Our volunteer colleague in Bolton Community Development Partnership, Amanda Sherrington who is currently studying Environmental Health at The University of Salford, had a great opportunity to work with Chaitimes one of BCDP`s partners. Below is her reflection on her Fabulous experience of volunteering during Bolton Food and Drink Festival 2016: I recently became a volunteer with Chaitimes,through...
The Crompton Community Project, is a project aimed at utilizing the very rich assets within the Crompton community, namely Individual talents and gifts of local residents The multiplying power of local associations like faith groups and other interest groups. The supportive services of local institutions from the local council agencies to academic and local businesses The...
BCDP will like to give a very big thanks to Pastor Adewale Adeleye the minister of the RCCG, Bolton in partnership with the neighbourhood management of Halliwell Bolton and BCDP for organising a successful youth career choice event on 3/09/2016 at the Halliwell UCAN centre. This event gave the participating teenagers a birds eye view of possible careers...
BCDP is proud of the great work Chuck gallery Manchester is doing to develop the community, by giving opportunity to young artists to show case their work and providing support for the younger generation of artist to build their self confidence in exploring their artistic talents. The above pictures were taken from the latest exhibition of...
At BCDP our key priority is to make sure our team capacity is constantly enhanced in order to deliver top class service to our partners. We are so grateful to Julia Ibok the Director of JAYS Consulting limited UK , for volunteering to delivering bespoke business analysis training to our project managers. Thanks Julia!!
The Africa project of BCDP is aimed at utilizing the asset based community development (ABCD) principles of community development to address issues affecting Africans living in Bolton Borough of Greater Manchester. We have been facilitating series discussions with key stake holders representing Africa community and Africa interest organisations, to look at issues around health...
The above picture was taken during our organised Halliwell walk about in partnership with the Halliwell Neighbourhood management 12/03/2016. This event brought local residents of Halliwell ward Bolton and their ward councillors together to have a walk about the ward and identify areas of interest and where local residents can contribute their skills and passions...
Recently we hosted Forever Manchester’s connecting our community workshop.It was a very exciting event. Participants made up of local residents of Bolton and representative of local organisations, had the opportunity to learn the basic principles of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) principle in connecting their local communities. We are so...
