Hattersley and Mottram Community Media

January 2010
While lots of other people are having to stay at home because of the snow the team at Hattersley & Mottram Community Media have been hard at work since Monday.

December 2009
The digital TV switchover Response Team, set up by Hattersley & Mottram Community Media (HMCM), made over 400 visits to the homes of older residents all over Tameside to offer support with the retuning of their TV and digital TV equipment following the two phases of the digital TV switchover in November and December 2009.

December 2009
If Christmas is for children we wanted to make this Christmas a very special one for three Hattersley children. Hattersley Forum Community Association, who organised this years Christmas lights switch on supported by Hattersley & Mottram Community Media (HMCM), contacted the estates primary schools and asked the head teachers to nominate a youngster from their school, who they felt had done particularly well in the past year or had overcome some obstacle, to turn the lights on.

December 2009
This year saw the biggest turnout ever for Hattersley’s Christmas Lights Switch On event, on Wednesday 2 December. More than 500 residents, of all ages, descended on the Community Square to enjoy all the fun inside at the Community Centre and Library and outside on the car park.

People were queuing up outside the Community Centre to watch the fantastic performances from children from Arundale, St James and Pinfold Primary Schools. Children from the Community Centre dance group wowed the spectators as did the youngsters who performed from Alder Community High School.

November 2009 - The Competition entry

November saw a fantastic entry come in for our competition of where’s the furthest or most unusual place you’ve seen the Community News is being. This picture from Steve Haycock, of fishing buddy Paul Cobb reading his Community News with a lion in South Africa might not make it as the furthest the newspaper is being read but sharing a read with a lion, even a youngster, has got to be unusual by anyone’s standards, but what do you think?

I had a dream I saw your face,
it was in a dark and distant place,
a place i knew from once before,
a place i'd hidden behind a door.

Locked up tight for nobody to see,
locked in a box only opened by me,
held closed by a lock made with hopes and dreams,
kept closed so nobody can hear the screams.

Not wanting to remember, not wanting to share,
hoping the lock holds so you'll all stay in there,
striving for more and not being beat,
these are the things that've kept me on my feet.

A happy smile to show life is good,
though you cut me deep you drew no blood,

November 2009
In October 2009 we worked with the St. Peter's Partnerships to support production of their first community newspaper, for the residents who live in the Town Centre, Holy Trinity, West End and Portland Basin area's of Ashton-under-Lyne.

Working with the St. Peter's community development team, HMCM provided the layout and print services for the publication. These are just some of the support services we can provide to anyone wanting to produce a community or other publication.

There's the poetry vault but I just can't get a gig.
I'm not bothered so I wont have a dig.
There's the poetry vault but I can't get on stage.
I say 'whatever' I don't feel no rage.

There's the poetry vault but my curtains come down.
I say 'whatever' I wont wear no frown.
There's the poetry vault no room at the inn?
all of -my poems- get thrown in the bin

There's the poetry vault, for me its a crypt
All of -my poems- get shredded and ripped
There's the poetry vault, that baby was mine.
I couldn't care less, in-fact I feel fine.

By Dessy Stuart
Whatever © Dessy Stuart

Did you know that if you meet their criteria you could have a room in your home decorated, once every two years, free of charge?

Click the 'read more' link below and you will find an attachment named Decorating, click this to download Peak Valley Housing Associations concessionary gardening application form.

When you have downloaded it you can print it off to complete it. Once you have completed it take it along to Peak Valley's offices on Hattersley Road East.