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Welcome to Manchester Active Voice.
In this edition, we share details of activities, events and news taking place across the city.
Read on to learn more!
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 Have you registered yet?
There are thousands of FREE places for activities during the Christmas school holidays.
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3 to get involved:
1. Register for FREE benefits-related school meals
2. Create a family account MCRactive Go account
3. Find and book your sessions.
Click this link for more information.
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KEVIN'S ALMOST HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
 Don't forget that tomorrow on 7 December, the final stage of Kevin Sinfield's 'Running Home for Christmas' fundraising challenge takes place in Manchester.
Kevin and the team have raised nearly £700,000 for Motor Neurone Disease Association, Leeds Hospitals Charity, Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, MND Scotland and The Darby Rimmer MND Foundation.
Kevin will begin a run at Old Trafford and then throughout Manchester, stopping off at Manchester Regional Arena on the Etihad Campus.
The week long challenge started on 1 December with Sinfield and the team covering over 50km per day, visiting seven regions across Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Support his incredible journey by watching his run tomorrow and by donating at this link.
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 We're already breaking records!
The Women's Rugby World Cup 2025, taking place in Manchester and around the country, has now exceeded the 150,000 tickets sold for Women's Rugby World Cup 2021 in New Zealand.
Over 220,000 fans will watch, with Manchester as a host city, and games being played at Salford Community Stadium, England 2025 is officially set to be the biggest Women's Rugby World Cup ever. You don't want to miss this.
For more information about the event and for ticket details, click this link.
#RWC2025 | #ThisEnergyNeverStops
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If you’re a Manchester resident, your bin days will change during the Christmas holidays.
Between 25 December and 1 January, the days when your bins are emptied may change due to how bank holidays fall. Please note the following dates:
- No change to collections on Monday 23 December and Monday 30 December
- No change to collections on Tuesday 24 December and Tuesday 31 December
- Wednesday collections move to Friday 27 December and Thursday 2 January
- Thursday collections move to Saturday 28 December and Friday 3 January
- Friday collections move to Sunday 29 December and Saturday 4 January
For those of you wishing to dispose of your real Christmas trees, you can recycle your real Christmas tree in January, after removing any lights, decorations, stands and/or wooden bases.
For more information about bins, recycling and tree disposal over this period, please click this link.
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 Recently we delivered the ‘Manchester: Let’s Walk!’ 2 hr workshop to The Beautiful Minds group, based in Moston.
The group will deliver walking activity to older people as part of their Active Seniors sessions, which support local residents to become more active, and also address loneliness and isolation in the local community.
The interactive session covered the many benefits of walking, the barriers people may face and how to overcome them, how to design and deliver walking activity, plus creative walking ideas and further resources.
One attendee said: "This walking workshop was so educative. An eye opener of the benefits from frequent walking exercise".
Interested in the next workshop? Please contact l.kinrade@mcractive.com for more details.
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 Over the past few weeks and months, British Cycling have recently been developing a ‘Community Activator’ training course.
The first pilot course, delivered on 12 November, was attended by a range of volunteers & instructors who deliver cycling activity.
After the training, John Wynch (Community Developer, British Cycling) gave a tour of the National Cycling Centre to the participants.
One of the attendees, Sumayra, was captivated by the velodrome and asked if someone like her could ride it. A session was arranged for Sumayra and a group of women, who wouldn’t normally believe they could ride on the track, to have a one hour session coached by John and Craig Ansell.
Both British Cycling and Manchester Active are keen to make this a more regular event, and have already had a number of enquiries from the participants based on their positive experience.
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Manchester City Council is asking you to help them decide how they balance their budget for 2025/26, while protecting frontline services and delivering on your priorities.
Your views on savings options of up to £41.5m which have been identified for 2025/26 and beyond, plus proposals on how much you pay for council tax, can help shape the decisions.
Please have your say before 12 January via this link.
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 With a winter season full of events, such as Christmas shopping, festive markets, pantomimes and concerts, we all have a role to play in keeping each other safe.
Your safety and security is paramount, that’s why we are supporting the Counter Terrorism Policing winter vigilance campaign.
Stay alert to people filming security exits, entrances or CCTV or anything that doesn’t feel right. We can all play our part in defeating terrorism, by reporting via this link. You won’t be wasting police time.
#CommunitiesDefeatTerrorism
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 Manchester City Council & Manchester Active have launched a survey to better understand how people use our leisure centres and facilities.
We are currently meeting with as many groups as possible to engage further to understand how different sections of the communities are accessing physical activity within Manchester.
We are particularly interested to hear people's feedback on the targeted sessions which currently run across leisure centres. These can include activities such as:
- women only swim or gym sessions
- wheelchair tennis
- walking football for over 50s
- LGBT+ club sessions
Have your say! Complete the survey by clicking this link.
The closing date for the online survey has been extended to Monday 16 December.
 Breaking news!
The UK B-Boy Championships, one of the world’s premier breaking competitions, is set to return in Manchester on 23 and 24 August 2025.
This prestigious event will gather the globe’s top breakers to battle for the coveted title of World Champion.
After Manchester hosted a sensational European Breaking Championships in 2022, we’re thrilled to get the opportunity to again welcome explosive performances from some of the biggest global names in breaking to Manchester.
As a city continually voted in the top ten global cities for sport, the World Breaking Finals offers a valuable opportunity to connect another sport with a whole new audience along with our long-standing strong community of breakers. Stay tuned for more details!
#AliveWithSport
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 Across Manchester, we're promoting daily messages of support, inspiration, guidance and updates to the city across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – tagging #MCRactive.
Follow @MCRactive to stay connected with the latest updates on staying active and healthy and share details with your friends and family.
We'd also love to hear about the innovative ways Mancunians are being active to share with others. If you have inspiring content – a short video, image or message, you can send via: info@mcractive.com or share them through @MCRactive on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
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