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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 …

Hyde community Action is running activities locally to bring women of different cultures together. We have has immersed ourselves in events to help bridge the gap between the different religions and ways of life in Tameside. At the end of Ramadan Hyde Community Action staff and volunteers hosted a workshop at Tameside Women’s Centre in …

Shining light Liza Ahmed Chowdhury has found a new passion for learning, gained employment and qualifications – and has now been elected to our Board. The 35 year-old mother of two who currently holds down three jobs (including running her own business) and has just bought a new house in Newton, has impressed members of …

Hyde Community Action celebrated the achievements of their volunteers and the outstanding contribution to Hyde Community Action they make at an event attended by Jonathan Reynolds MP. At the event on the 24th of March, 30 volunteers were awarded for their contribution. The stories of seven courageous women stood out. These were all stories of …