What's On and Things To Do Around Greater Manchester

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Make the most of the longest day on a four mile stroll to Hartshead Pike.

The UK’s only Transylvanian festival of arts & culture returns to Manchester. Last year saw 10,000 revellers put their best foot forward to try out traditional folk dancing, soak up the unique sounds of a zither orchestra & sample Transylvanian craft beer & delicacies.

Ambitious entrepreneurs are invited to explore the potential of franchising at The Northern Franchise Exhibition at EventCity, Manchester on 22 & 23 June.

Please come to our Summer Fayre and help us raise money for much needed playground equipment for our school.

This is an interesting and reflective course containing relevant content for today’s society. The course teaches us how to use this up-to-date information to ensure we protect children from all types of radicalisation. The course identifies your responsibility in challenging views and reporting concerns.

Join us in a celebratory concert to mark 90 years of making music with guests Flute Salad & Poynton Male Voice Choir. We will perform a mix of sacred and secular choral music.

Big hair, big shoulder pads and the biggest hits of the ‘80s, all in one spectacular night. Join the full forces of the Hallé plus guest rhythm section and star vocalists Alison Jiear and Tim Howar for a night of chart-topping, record-smashing hits!

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills. .

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Join us at the Principal Hotel, Manchester on Friday 29th June for the Francis House Children’s Hospice Summer Ladies Lunch.

Laineys are holding a fruits-de-mer feast, at 8pm on Sat, 30th June, fresh local produce will be supplied by our friends, Gemma & Russell at M&O Fish

Come and join us for another fantastic display of scarecrows in our village. Programmes are just £2 and contain full details of where the scarecrows are, where to get food, car parks, toilets and what events are happening throughout the weekend.

A two day event to experience the taste of Thailand this summer at Platt Fields Park, Manchester is brought to you by Magic of Thailand.

Saturday 30th June 8.30am Pitches: Inside pre-booked £10; Outside pre-booked £7, £8 on the day. Tel: 01942 275507 Refreshments available

Over the weekend of 30th June – 1st July the Manchester Airport Aviation and Transport Festival will be taking place at the Airports Runway Visitor Park (WA15 8XQ). Attracting over 15,000 people this years event will be celebrating Manchester airports 80 years of operations.

8.30am Pitches: Inside £10; Outside £7 pre-booked, £8 on the day. Tel: 01942 275507 Refreshments available

A variety of tasks on Egmont Street Fields. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Spend the afternoon with the Hallé and Stephen Bell on a journey of a lifetime. This magical concert lets your imagination run riot with space ships, flying cars, thrilling train rides and the most exciting wardrobe in the world!

A fun-filled show about the Internet for 3-8 year olds and their grown ups, based on the best-selling picture book by Stuart Spendlow, illustrated by Amy Bradley. Sophie reads about an exciting creature called a Penguinpig on the Internet.

Bring your favourite poem and read it out on a short 2 mile stroll around the heights of Werneth Low Country Park.

A variety of tasks in this well-used park. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Make the most of the long summer evenings on a three mile walk up to Walkerwood with Paul Nethercott.

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

#artopenhouse is an artist initiative in which a group of Manchester artists - Kate Davies, Sarah Feinmann, Maggie Hargreaves and Fiona Moate - curate a weekend exhibition in the intimate setting of an Edwardian terraced house.

Malcolm doesn’t like animals, which is a problem because his family love them. Their house is full of pets. After a bizarre school trip unlike any other, Malcolm begins to understand animals more deeply than anyone. But will he end up the same as before? Because sometimes the hardest thing to be is…you.

A variety of tasks in this popular park. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Cannon will fire, drums will sound, and swords will clash as Roundheads and Cavaliers descend on 7-8 July for ‘The Storming of Bolton’ - an exciting weekend of thrilling battles and fascinating ‘living history’ in the grounds of Bolton School, all free for local people and staged by costumed reenactors from The Earl

Discover the moorland above Carrbrook on a strenuous 4 mile walk with Paul Nethercott.

Spend a relaxing evening with the Bamforth Brothers in close study of the local flora.

Join Paul Nethercott on a walk around Portland Basin looking at its natural and historic aspects and spot the views which Lowry used.

In the well-loved Stamford Park there will be litter picks and checks to see if signposts, benches, picnic tables etc are in need of repair before the summer.

A variety of tasks in Stamford Park. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills. Please make sure you bring a packed lunch.

SOS Festival 2018 Friday 13th to Sunday 15th July 2018 Longfield Suite, 3 Longfield Centre, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, M25 1AY, England £20 for 3 days + booking fees SOS Festival is an indoor, all ages welcome, rock & metal live indoor music event currently in its 10th year which takes place from Friday

Collectable vinyl, cds. Dvds etc book a table saturday special.

A three mile stroll with Brian Taylor around a once industrial area, now rich in wildlife.

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Spend a relaxing evening with the Bamforth Brothers in close study of the local flora.

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Manchester’s longest running music event and Europe’s most adventurous jazz festival returns for its 23rd year with 96 gigs across the city, featuring a line-up of local and international talent from 20 – 28 July 2018. The full programme is now live at manchesterjazz.

Please join us for a summer-themed Quiz Night on Saturday, 21st July 2018 being held in the Community Room at St Paul’s Monton. Come as a team of max 6 players or on your own and link in with one of the teams put together on the night.

Bring the kids on a 2 mile, family friendly ramble around Silver Springs. Suitable for single buggies.

Join John and Margaret on this moderate 11 mile walk over the Nab and round the back of Cown Edge to Rowarth. Enjoy panoramic views over Derbyshire, Cheshire and Tameside.

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Spend a relaxing evening with the Bamforth Brothers in close study of the local flora.

Winner of the 2008 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations, IN THE HEIGHTS, is coming to the Grange Arts Theatre in July 2018.

This session’s theme - Moses (of the Old Testament). For accompanied children of all ages. Craft, games, fun & songs all around the theme, followed a simple meal together. Free, though donations toward cost of food & craft welcome. Christ Church Heaton, Chorley New Road Bolton BL1 5AH

Help us stop this invasive alien species ruining our woods and meadows. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

My Life My Way is working in partnership with My Life charity to present the Live Life Music Festival. Includes: live music on two stages (main stage and acoustic stage), comedy tent, fire eater, festival crafts, stalls, games, festival hair and make-up, accessible go-carts, and much more!

A four mile walk looking at the literary legacy of Werneth Low’s greatest author.

A variety of tasks in Cheetham Park. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.

Spend a relaxing evening with the Bamforth Brothers in close study of the local flora.

Discover Greater Manchester’s public road transport history with the Museum of Transport, Boyle Street, Cheetham, Manchester M8 8UW – approximately one mile north of Manchester City Centre near Manchester Fort Shopping Park.

An easy two mile walk around Lower Brushes with Paul Nethercott.

Explore Hyde Park on a short walk, then enjoy a family treasure hunt.

Spend a relaxing evening with the Bamforth Brothers in close study of the local flora.

Join Paul Nethercott on a very strenuous 11 mile walk to what was the highest reservoir in Britain and looking at one of the World War ll aircraft wreck sites.

Volunteers from the Northern Mill Engine Society have rescued and restored 30 old stationary steam engines - some of the engines which once powered the cotton mills and woollen mills of the North of England. The collection includes 2 rare beam engines (the oldest is 180 years old!

An easy four mile stroll with Brian Taylor, volunteer for over 40 years, in the woodlands around Denton, now rich in wildlife, which hide evidence of a once industrial past.

Saturday 1st September. Lots of bargains to be had!

FREE family friendly day out featuring classic and modern transport based in Heaton Park. With something for everyone, classic and modern buses, military and commercial vehicles, cars and motorcycles on show. Close by are the Boating Lake, Lakeside Café and the fun fair.

You are very welcome to join us at St Paul’s Church in Monton on Sunday Evening, 2nd September 2018 at 6:30pm as members of the Eccles Team Of Churches come together with friends from Monton Methodist Church and others to sing a selection of wonderful hymns and hear the reasons why those hymns have been chosen.

An 11 moderate mile walk with Paul Nethercott linking Stamford, Cheetham and Stalybridge Country parks.

Widely considered to be one of the best ever Abba Tribute Acts, they play to packed theatres and festivals throughout Europe. A stunning stage show, which combines costume changes, lighting effects and a faithful reproduction of the Abba sound.

On National Heritage Weekend, explore the history of the growth of Millbrook and the decline of the cotton industry on a two mile walk with Paul Nethercott.

MANCHESTER MUSIC COMPETITION OPEN MIC UK 2018 AUDITION DATES RELEASED Music competition auditions dates for Manchester Open Mic UK 2018 have been announced! Open Mic UK is coming to Manchester with auditions at the National Exhibition Centre.

Three times a year there is the chance for men only to get together to enjoy breakfast together in the pub on a Saturday Morning and listen to an interesting speaker. This time the guest speaker is Rev Ross Garner, the Rector Of Eccles.

Join John and Margaret on this moderate 11 mile ramble through the woods and over the moors to the heights of Tameside.

After seven sell out UK tours, half a million tickets sold, and countless television and live performances, Diversity have announced another groundbreaking UK tour, “Ignite” The Street Dance Circus Spectacular for Autumn 2018.

On the morning of equal night and day, enjoy a short walk in Cowbury Dale Local Nature Reserve looking for wildlife preparing for Autumn.

Indulge in this diverse programme as London Concertante present Four Seasons from both hemispheres, works by English mastermind Sir Edward Elgar, and German giants, Bach and Mozart.

Enjoy this popular 12 mile walk with grand views, old stories and lots of fresh hill country air.

A fantastic event with a super-fast, flat course, great entertainment, outstanding crowd support and a glorious finish at Emirates Old Trafford, the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club. If you only enter one half marathon this year, make it this one! One of the flattest and fastest around.

Bring your dog for a 5km walk around beautiful Heaton Park and raise money to transform the lives of people with disabilities. Meet some of our dogs who are transforming lives of people in the area, and some puppies and dogs in training.

Vintage,used & new Guitars Buy - Sell - Trade, Guitars, Amps & Accessories.Have our guitar valued (Free) loads of stands full of all kinds of instruments including Guitars, electric & acoustic, banjos, Ukes etc Free valuations Plus live music & Guitar workshop

This session’s theme - Wedding at Cana. For accompanied children of all ages. Craft, games, fun & songs all around the theme, followed a simple meal together. Free, though donations toward cost of food & craft welcome. Christ Church Heaton, Chorley New Road Bolton BL1 5AH

The hugely popular live band performance, returns to rock the UK with the ‘Queen Extravaganza Tour’. ‘Queen Extravaganza’ – described by the legendary Roger Taylor himself as ‘A rock celebration in the Royal tradition’ and designed to enable new fans and old to celebrate the music of Queen - will play 17 shows...

Cancer Research UK’s Tough 10 is a brand new series of epic 10k runs. No obstacles - this is the chance to take on some of the UK’s toughest terrain. Double-knot your trainers and prepare to thigh-burn your way to raising serious money to help beat cancer sooner.

Enjoy a concert of some of the finest composers of the Classical and Baroque periods as London Concertante present a concert headlined by the works of Mozart, Bach, and Vivaldi.

A wide range of books, models and collectables for sale plus a display of vehicles Christmas draws near and this is the event to bring the year to an end in a happy way with opportunities to spend your money on transport memorabilia from books to models, photos to spare parts.

Sorry, we are closed over the Christmas and New Year holiday period

Touring their ever-popular festive programme, London Concertante travel the length and breadth of the country presenting treats from across Europe to get you in the mood for mulled wine, mince pies, and baubles.

The UK’s second biggest marathon is BACK! Accomplish a lifetime achievement, smash your PB and celebrate the spirit of Manchester on Sunday 7th April. Be a part of the action and secure your place in the UK’s flattest, fastest and friendliest marathon.