Archive for April, 2019

Dragon Boat Festival 2019

Please come and support Wai Yin Society and our partner, Your Housing Group, at the annual dragon boat festival in Salford Quays on Sunday afternoon 12th May 2019.  We will be paddling in boat (team) number 8. Monies from charity sponsorship raised will go to MIND / Wai Yin Society services It should be a great day! We’ve set up a fundraising page for people to donate to the two charities: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/yhg-dragon-boat-race-2019

New Course Timetable 新課程時間表 April-June 2019

Wai Yin’s ETE Team have published our exciting new timetable for the summer term which, as always, offers a wide range of courses for everyone in the community. Our classes always aim to give our learners the tools to improve their English and ICT knowledge whilst learning a wide range of valuable skills which will help them to improve their employment prospects, access volunteering opportunities and live independent lives. This term we are offering ESOL classes based around sewing, gardening, food safety and budgeting, as well as our hugely popular DIY and furniture upcycling courses. Our well attended ICT courses […]

Wai Yin Courses in Salford

Wai Yin have just finished their first ESOL course in Salford called ESOL for Volunteering and Active Citizenship in partnership with Salford City College’s Community Learning Team. This course was held in Little Hulton where we worked with the Big Local, who gave us a venue for the course, as well as providing support by publicising it amongst their well established Salford partners and liaising with potential students who called into their premises to register. The course concentrated on enabling students to access opportunities to improve their English and employment prospects by learning about the benefits of volunteering. Part of […]