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A major new campaign to encourage smokers in Greater Manchester to quit is to be launched on National No Smoking Day (13 March).

The new ‘exsmoker’ campaign centres on the real life experiences of former smokers from across Greater Manchester, providing a positive message that you can stop smoking.

While reminding smokers of the serious health impacts of tobacco, the focus is more on the personal benefits of quitting, as experienced by these local residents.

The first ever Food Poverty Action Plan for Greater Manchester was launched on Monday 4 March. Coordinated by Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA), the Action Plan has been co-produced during the last 12 months by over 100 organisations, including Bolton at Home, from across the public, private and voluntary and community sectors, as well as individuals with experience of poverty. The aim is to end the scourge of food poverty in Greater Manchester.

Housing associations Bolton at Home and Irwell Valley Homes, and developer and contractor Watson Homes, have submitted plans to build 118 new affordable homes on the fringes of Bolton town centre.

With funding from Homes England, the development will be delivered to meet demand for high quality affordable homes in the area.

A reminder that from April 2019, and where it is appropriate, we will require some customers to pay an increased estate maintenance charge and some to pay a new service charge to cover the cost of lighting in communal areas. We first wrote to customers between 12 and 17 November 2018 to explain plans to introduce some further charges and to get feedback on the impact this might have. We tailored the letters to people’s circumstances and properties. We are now sending out annual letters that will confirm precisely what you will pay for your rent and for any service charges from April 2019 to March 2020. This Q&A explains more.

Crompton, Halliwell and Tonge with the Haulgh in Bolton has been officially recognised as an age-friendly neighbourhood by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.

A new community wellbeing project launched in Bolton has been praised after winning a top health award.

The ‘Peer Navigators’ project has seen us employ Bolton at Home tenants to work in their community, helping neighbours access support to make positive changes and live healthier lives.