MaTReC's 25th Anniversary Celebrations
Calling people from the Manor estate and anyone who has links to the organisation, past or present!! Manor Training & Resource Centre ( MaTReC ) is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2012. Many people and organisations have been involved with the organisation but many changes over the years mean that direct contact cannot be made.
MaTReC would like to use the contact column to send an invitation to past learners, employees and partners it has worked with, or helped to achieve qualifications, to attend a celebratory event on Friday 30 March 2012 at 304-8 Prince of Wales Road, Sheffield .
If anyone has any early photographs or memorabilia, such as machine knitted MaTReC jumpers, then please contact Sami on 0114 2642194 . We are putting together a montage, using photographs and items, illustrating life, people and events throughout the years.
It would be wonderful to hear learner success stories. Did any previous learners make a million, start their own business or continue into higher education, etc? If MaTReC helped then we want to know!
The event will start run from 10.00 am until 2.00 pm and the Lord Mayor will be present at 11.00 am to present certificates to learners who have successfully completed training courses. There will be fun taster sessions for people to get involved in, other local organisations, raffle and tombola stalls, with a free barbecue and buffet.
The pictures show past celebration events, can you put names to faces?
 
“Flaming Hell” – Manor estate centre marks Silver Jubilee
Party to mark 25 years of MaTReC 30 th March 2012
It was once dubbed the worst council estate in Britain and ‘Flaming Hell' by the Sunday Mail, but those who live and work there have always known there is something special about Sheffield's Manor estate.
Now an adult education centre which has helped local people gain more than 10,000 qualifications is celebrating 25 years of helping to improve the lives of the people that live there.
Launched in 1987, Manor Training and Resource Centre, was originally intended to help those hit by the closure of the steelworks in the Lower Don Valley to get back to work.
Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs, and lives and communities were shattered as the manufacturing industry on which Sheffield was built came to an end.
People living on Sheffield's Manor estate, which was predominantly home to those working in the nearby steel industry, were particularly hard hit. MaTReC was quickly set up to help them retrain for new jobs and industries. |