MacIntyre in Warrington

Our Great Communities Eco/Green project group moved their focus from growing and planting to the local wildlife today in the r'teacup cafe at The Old School. The group made some simple pine cone bird feeders for the local wildlife to enjoy over winter in the side garden. Great job as ever team 🙌🏻

The Tuesday afternoon group at the learning Centre have been getting into the festive mood by making their Christmas cakes.

Great turn out at the Memory cafe yesterday. Everyone enjoyed the Chirstmas crafts and songs. Suggestions for activities for Memory Cafe 2023 it's in our DNA

It was all about the Gonks today at The Puddle Project , we had a lovely morning being crafty! Then making sure all the animals had clean beds before having a game of Battle Ducks! 👍🐥🦆

Tracy working hard to make some Pottery Christmas Gonks.

Great turn out tonight lovely to see Liz and Jacob there and yes Tom was the winner again
Thanks to everyone for coming

Hello everyone New routes garden team here 😊 meet our lovely friend Tao the cat who regularly comes to the gardens to pay us a visit. He always makes us smile 😺

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Bowling tonight meeting at 5pm @ Tenpin Bowling 10-15 Chetham Court, Warrington WA2 8RF only £3 a game

Looking Forward to the MacIntyre Memory Cafe on Wednesday 23rd November 10 -12 @ The Old School, 17 Fairfield Street, Warrington, WA1 3AJ come along and join in the Christmas activities. You can purchase drinks and delicious food from Rteacup

The cookery group at the Learning Centre are talking and learning about different fruits.

Becky is here to start our week with a happy smile. It's Monday!

For the past two weeks the Friday group at The Puddle Project have been working on several elements of the new Macintyre DNA. Providing some of their lived experience for the local PCSO teams (everyone feels safe and in control), WBC SEN employment officer (we are ambitious for ourselves and each other), and also for the NHS LD clinical lead (everyone has a voice and is listened too). Well done team it’s great your sharing your knowledge and experience to help others 🙌🏻

If your a film fan and excited for the Christmas holidays why not join Ciaran next Thursday 24th November 7pm at the old school for his festive film club. Ciaran is showing “the Santa Clause” and would love to break his attendance record for his previous festive film “the polar express”. We will have festive treats and hot chocolate for everyone (thanks to fellow film club members Emily and Alan 👍🏻) and Christmas jumpers and hats are more than welcome to start the festive period off with a bang 💥🎄🎅🧑‍🎄🎁

Hello everyone, all at New Routes Gardens have been busy creating our lovely handmade natural Christmas wreathes and they are looking beautiful, if you would like to order a wreath please contact Warrington learning centre 01925 558878 to place your order wreaths are a bargain price of £15.
Available in either traditional style or sparkly.
Collections are from New Routes Community Orchard.
We are so grateful always for your support 🌲

Lesley was very pleased to have finished her latest piece of sewing.

Looking forward to seeing you at the MacIntyre Big Night Out at St Benedicts tomorrow night, Wednesday 16th November. Kathryn and Jenny will you be your hosts...🤩🥳 don't forget your dancing shoes!

A big well done to “site foreman” Richard from our Great Communities eco/green project for receiving the Royal Horticultural Society level 4 alongside his team for the outstanding work they all do at The Old School. Big thanks also needs to go to Sarah (planting/growing lead)for presenting his award, it’s amazing to see the collective spirit and togetherness the team have. 🙌🏻🌹🌱🥔🌽🥕

We had a group Lego therapy session at the Learning Centre, everyone worked together to make some fun Lego creations.

It's Kirsty that brings us our Monday smile this week.
Have a great day everyone.

This week at the Learning Centre we have been been creative firework art.

Another fun afternoon with The Warrington Wolves Foundation at the Learning Centre sports session.

Everyone had a lovely time at bowling tonight.

A big thanks to the wonderful Co-op community champion Dave Appleton for coming to The Old School today with news of the success of our bid for the Co-Op community fund to help continue our activities on our Great Communities project here in Warrington. It’s wonderful to see how much Dave and the local co-op’s across the town contribute to the people and projects in our local community 👍🏻

We made some fantastic Chocolate apples in our cookery class at the Learning Centre.

Macintyre Bowling on Tuesday 8th November meeting at 5pm at Tenpin Bowling 10-15 Chetham Court WA2 8rf, come along and join us and make some new friends. Only £3 a game. Look forward to seeing you 😀

Next MacIntyre Disco will be on Wednesday 16th November 7pm - 10pm at St Benedict's Social Club, Rhodes Street, Warrington WA2 7QE. £3 ENTRY, looking forward to seeing you all. 😀

We have a very happy Gus and his chocolate apple to start our week with a smile.
Have a great Monday.

Have a fun and safe Bonfire Night from everyone at the Learning Centre.

The Friday group at the The Puddle Project cleaned out the chickens and the ducks for the first time today. Its not a popular job as it was a smelly and tough task. Its a great learning curve that it’s not all fun caring for the animals, but the group did a fantastic and professional job and the chucks and ducks now have a nice clean pen again. 🤢🐓🦆🙌🏻

Working hard at the Learning Centre on some creative images for Bonfire night.

Sophie and Harry were getting up to something fishy today! 🐠🐟🐡

Lesley is on the touch screen computer looking for inspiration for her next sewing project.

Fantastic turnout today for the second arts and craft group with June and Emily at The Old School. Just shows how successful people led community ideas with passion are. Great job from our dynamic duo again 🙌🏻

Big thanks to the wonderful team from the “bread and butter thing” at The Old School for the kind donation of some plants for our eco green project. If your in need of a helping hand saving some money with the weekly food shop give them a try (details on the flyer).

The garden team have already started planting the donated flowers and they look fantastic during the autumn/winter season. 🙌🏻🌷

A little bit of Halloween fun in the Learning Centre cookery session. Spider sandwiches! eat them before they eat you.

Last ride out today for the year for Rory’s cycling social. We certainly found some stunning autumn scenery on the route to Walton, and enjoyed a well earned break at Walton Hall and Gardens cafe ☕️🍰

See you all next year for more social active rides with Rory and the group 🚴🏻🚴🏻‍♀️

It has been a spooky morning today down at the New Routes Orchard we've been carving our pumpkins. Autumn is very much here now the trees are turning beautiful reds and oranges and falling to the ground which means lovely leaf mould for us.
🍄🧛🍂 🧙

Have a fun spooky Halloween.
From all of us at the Learning Centre.

Learning the basics of Volleyball with The Warrington Wolves Foundation in our sport session at the Learning Centre.

Liz and Julia joining in with a craft session with out reach from MacIntyre.