Salford Lads Club

Belly Dancing in the dark

Billed as an evening stroll with hot soup, visitors got quite a few Surprises when they joined in a procession organised by ORDSOCS and Friends of St. Ignatius. The idea was to use music, dance and drama to link two remarkable Edwardian buildings in one Salford street. While the future of Salford Lads’ Club is looking good, the future of St Ignatius, at the bottom of the street is far less certain. More than 60 people took part in the event, which was part of The Seven sites project.

Science comes to Salford Lads’ Club

Yesterday we hosted an amazing science event as part of the month long Manchester Science Festival. A team from Salford University set up experiments and workshops in the gym, kitchen, boxing gym and billiards room. In the concert hall Dr Steve Rossington treated a delighted audience to the wonders of chemistry, creating explosions, bangs and flashes in a show that lived up to its title “Louder than bombs”

Boxing film highlights aim to end racism in a generation

Riffat Ahmed’s film CLENCH premiered last week. The film is about a mixed race Asian teenage girl who takes part in a boxing course run by a black boxing coach. The film explores the girls own experience of racism and also her own preconceptions of other people and places. Adam Crosby one of the boxers at the club took part in the film which was shot on location here and Old Trafford. It was commissioned by the Runnymede Trust to highlight their project Generation3.