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New project across Tameside matches volunteer buddies with people who have long-term conditions, are socially isolated or suffer from loneliness. The volunteers join the clients to take those first steps to join a new activity or club, when overcoming their thoughts and anxieties are too big a hurdle for them to jump alone. So, if …

Diversity Matters’ Hasina Khanom is a true success story for the charity. Her achievements are extraordinary and the work she has done over the past nearly 9 years, is incredible. But Hasina didn’t seem to be destined for such success to begin with. Coming across Diversity Matters (DMNW) in the first place was a life-changing …

A wonderful life-affirming event took place on Saturday at Diversity Matters North West, to honour and remember all those affected by hate in all its forms. Hosted by the staff team, who had come in on a Saturday to share thoughts and embraces with their local community, the event brought together young and old, MPs …

Months into a 3-year programme, the Bright Future Volunteering Project is smashing targets and empowering women from ethnic minorities across Tameside. Since June 2018, 80 volunteers have joined the new project which gives teen girls (15+) and women in Tameside the opportunity to take up meaningful volunteering opportunities in places like nurseries, schools, shops, community …

Determined and focussed Sharin has fought her way through trauma and hardship to reach new goals and help herself and others. The 36-year-old mother and wife was brought up the youngest in a family of eight children in a small town in Bangladesh and came to the UK to settle and start a family with …

It was a busy day on Sunday for the many female volunteers at Diversity Matters who attended a Volunteer Celebration in the morning and helped run a successful Family Fun Day in the afternoon. As the sun made a rare appearance on Sunday the 25th of March, lots of people made their way to Hyde’s …

Newly re-branded charity, Diversity Matters North West, are putting on a great afternoon of fun in honour of women’s achievements over the last 100 years. The Family Fun Day will include great activities, stalls, performances and much more including: Henna Balloon Modelling Face Painting Bouncy castle Belly Dancing Singing Health and Wellbeing Stalls Information Stalls …

At the end of 2017 our charity, then known as Hyde Community Action, celebrated ten years of delivering amazing work in Hyde. A short while later there was more cause for celebration, as we started work on a re-brand that gave us a new name and lets us expand our work area to Tameside. Now …

How do you help people who come to HCA for employment support? “I like to take a personal approach and help each person that comes for a session in a way that helps them as an individual. We look at their CV and tweak it if it needs to be tweaked. Or if the client …

We are busy getting ready for a great celebration of 10 years as Hyde Community Action. The 25th of November will see Hyde Town Hall’s Main Hall transformed from 11.30am-2.30pm into a hive of activity with lots of fun stalls and activities celebrating the work we have done over the last 10 years. Staff, Trustees …