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Celebrating the 10th Flourish Mentor-a-thon: Fostering Collaboration and Success.

Last week marked a significant milestone for Flourish as we hosted our 10th Flourish Mentor-a-thon event in partnership with Sector 3 and Proper Good. The event brought together nine Stockport-based social ventures, including Make Build Grow, Drywave, Drawing Board Productions, High Vibes Crochet, The Village Web Company, Plastic Shed, and Twisted Trees, who each brought a challenge to a Sounding Board and pitched for investment.

[Read more…] about The Flourish Mentor-a-thon turns 10!

Flourish is looking to fill a number of Hub Community roles on a volunteer basis with some great opportunities and benefits in return.

Are you passionate about making a positive impact in the community? Do you want to be part of an exciting project that brings people together, fosters collaboration, and supports local social and community enterprises? Look no further—Flourish is calling for people to join our new Hub Community Team!

The Flourish Hub, located above Heaton Chapel Station, is set to become a vibrant and thriving space where social enterprises and community organisations can connect, work and create change. We’re seeking enthusiastic individuals who can offer some time in kind, are eager to get involved and play an active role in the success of the Hub.  

[Read more…] about Join our Heaton Chapel Hub Team!

Flourish is to open new community and social enterprise hub with co-working space above Heaton Chapel station. 

The space above Heaton Chapel Station is set to become a vibrant hub for social and community enterprises in the Heatons. Managed by Flourish Together CIC, the Hub will house a handful of social enterprises, a co-working room, and two hireable meeting spaces. After securing grant support from the National Lottery and Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, Flourish has been working hard behind the scenes to transform the space, listen to the needs of the community, and build partnerships with community support organisations.

[Read more…] about Action Stations! Heaton Chapel Hub Opening Soon

Flourish’s drop-in social venture support days have now come to Trafford and are open to all changemakers including social entrepreneurs, charities, and co-ops and other purpose-led ventures.

We’re on a roll with our Flourishing Monday & Friday events…! Following the success of our Manchester and Stockport series we launched our first one in Trafford this month in partnership with Altrincham’s creative space Inch Arts.

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Flourish is working in collaboration with Inch Arts to develop the Altrincham-based maker space into a creative social enterprise hub with training opportunities kicking off in Jan 2023.

[Read more…] about New! Maker Space Collaboration in Altrincham

Plans are afoot to transform the first-floor space above Heaton Chapel Station into a social enterprise and community hub. Flourish Together been working closely with local residents, community groups and train companies this past year. Building work starts this month with a view to opening the space by Spring 2023.

[Read more…] about Action Stations! All aboard to Flourish!