Welcome to Manchester Good Neighbours
Manchester Good Neighbours (Or the 'Manchester Neighbourhood Care Group Association' - MNCGA) provides support for older people and adults with other specific difficulties. We able to deliver our services free of charge as a result of our tremendous volunteer network. Our volunteers work with the Care Group Co-ordinators to provide a vital service to older people and adults in need in Manchester. This service includes essential provisions such as a befriending and visiting, emergency food shopping, transport to hospital appointments, wheelchair pushing, day trips, exercise and art classes and coffee mornings. All of our services are designed to reduce isolation and loneliness and increase independence.
Loneliness and isolation are major problems which affect 17% of older people in the UK today. This means 17% of older people regularly go for more than a week at a time without any contact with friends and family. A 2004 report entitled ‘Grey Matters: growing older in deprived areas’ by the New Philanthropy Capital revealed that poverty affects 2,300,000 older people in Britain, that is 21% of all pensioners in the UK today.