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Age Concern Trafford - Local charity providing services for older people, lists jobs, staff, insurance and holidays, volunteering and contact details.
MERCi's Bridge-5 Mill - Charity, lists information on the community, enterprise, environment, provides a newsletter and contact details.
Voluntary Action Manchester - A council for voluntary service, offering advice, information and support to voluntary and community groups. Lists a site map, jobs, partnership details, grants and contact details.
Pasion Project - Peer advice and support to young people up to the age of 25 on drugs, sex and alcohol. Lists a youth survey, project information and newsletter and real life stories.
Citizens Advice Bureau - A charity which provides independent, confidential, impartial and free advice, support and guidance to members of the public on a wide variety of topics. Lists aims and principles and contact details.
Ke Laman Web MCCH - Malaysian community site in Malay language. Lists activities, news, support services, gallery and links.
Community Foundation for Greater Manchester - Provides access to grants and funding for local groups to support local community activity.
Toucan Millennium Volunteers - Encourages and supports 16 to 24 year olds in the city to complete the national MV Award for volunteering. Profile, news, forum and contact details.
Post Games Volunteer Project - Aims to provide a wide range of opportunities in volunteering in the Greater Manchester area, building on the momentum and good will of the Commonwealth Games.
Victim Support and Witness Service - Supporting victims of crime and witnesses in court. Provides help, volunteers, information on going to court and victims of crime information.
ALL Community Group Network - Network of voluntary and community groups in the Ardwick, Longsight and Levenshulme. Details of groups, events, newsletters and maps.
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(Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Organisations The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Organisations blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Organisations Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Organisations "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Organisations Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler Organisations Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Organisations I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Organisations Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Organisations Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Organisations "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Organisations No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Organisations "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Organisations Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Organisations "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Organisations This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Organisations Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Organisations
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