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April 3, 2025
It was a lifeline, slashing shopping bills while prices continued to rise and enabling people to put ...
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March 25, 2025
Living Well Rochdale’s volunteer-led Therapeutic Thursday Group has opened new horizons for 81-year-old Eddie.
January 17, 2025
Volunteers with the Kath Locke Heritage Project are helping create an exhibition to tell the history of Hulme and Moss Side. It'll showcase the community's activism, love and legacy over 50 years.
July 18, 2024
The Sugar Group was one of the first groups born at the Kath Locke Centre when it opened and Big Life began. Decades on it’s still going strong, celebrating its 25th anniversary in style.
June 17, 2024
At the Big Life Volunteers Celebration 2024 on 4 June we applauded the remarkable achievements of the many volunteers who support our services, our staff and community projects.
March 2, 2023
The Investing in Volunteers Award has taken its place as the latest addition to the Big Life trophy cabinet. The bid to get the award renewed for the third time on the trot, began in 2019 and marks over fifteen years of award success in supporting volunteers.
February 24, 2021
Living Well recently helped to set up the borough’s first pop-up vaccination clinic at Castlemere Community Centre.
August 28, 2020
Wesley Community Furniture who provide low-cost furniture and household items has become the newest member of The Big Life group’s family of services.
January 27, 2020
Four years ago I stepped off a stool with a rope around my neck. Before he called Living Well in Rochdale, Jon He...
January 9, 2020
“I wanted to share my lived experience on a one to one basis and I thought volunteering with Peer Support would give me a good foundati...
“It’s been good for my mental health. It’s made me into a different sort of person and given me confidence. I know I’m no Mo Farah but ...
"I’m enjoying myself and getting my own life back because of Big Life and Living Well. It’s given me a purpose to keep going."...
July 17, 2018
I looked in to volunteering as a way of gaining the skills and experience I was missing.
