Happy Somedays

Today is the day!!!

☀️ The weather is looking good
⚽ We've got a packed out football schedule during the day
😜 We've lot's of fun activities on for all the community (details below)
🕺 There's live music at night
🫵 All we need is YOU!

⭐ Daytime - Our festival of football kicks off from 10am with teams from across the community taking part, as well as our own men and women's sides playing games to showcase the great incentives Wythenshawe has to offer.

All games take place at St. Paul's High School on Firbank Road.

We have also got:
- Face Painting
- Ice Cream Van - Local legend Jeannie is popping down to serve!
- Family Tombola
- Adult Tombola
- Football Cards
- Drawing station where you can design your own kit
Plus loads more!

Unfortunately we haven't got the capacity for card payments, so cash only is appreciated for the above (except the Ice Cream Van)

⭐ Once you've watched some great footy, had an ice cream and won some fabulous prizes, it's time to head to the Jolly Butcher for a dance and a sing song with live band Hilda's Flying Ducks in the evening from 7pm.

We cannot wait to have you all along for what is going to be an amazing, fun filled day. So grab those bucket hats, dust off those wellies and don your best festival attire!

We are just 1️⃣ day away from our first ever Happy Somedays Festival!

☀️ The weather is looking good
⚽ We've got a packed out football schedule during the day
😜 We've lot's of fun activities on for all the community (details below)
🕺 There's live music at night
🫵 All we need is YOU!

⭐ Daytime - Our festival of football kicks off from 10am with teams from across the community taking part, as well as our own men and women's sides playing games to showcase the great incentives Wythenshawe has to offer.

All games take place at St. Paul's High School on Firbank Road.

We have also got:
- Face Painting
- Ice Cream Van - Local legend Jeannie is popping down to serve!
- Family Tombola
- Adult Tombola
- Football Cards
- Drawing station where you can design your own kit
Plus loads more!

Unfortunately we haven't got the capacity for card payments, so cash only is appreciated for the above (except the Ice Cream Van)

⭐ Once you've watched some great footy, had an ice cream and won some fabulous prizes, it's time to head to the Jolly Butcher for a dance and a sing song with live band Hilda's Flying Ducks in the evening from 7pm.

We cannot wait to have you all along for what is going to be an amazing, fun filled day. So grab those bucket hats, dust off those wellies and don your best festival attire!

Not long now 👀💛🖤

Not long now 💛🖤

Massive thanks to all who came out last night and did a litter pick with us.

We collected a lot of litter between Woodhouse Park Lifestyle Centre & St Pauls High School!

Massive thanks to WYTHENSHAWE WASTE WARRIORS for providing us with the equipment to carry this out.

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Tonight’s our football sessions, both filling up very quickly to book your slot head to: https://happysomedays.pembee.app/

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We took part in the “We ❤️ Southport” HopeNotHate tournament, a great day and a real credit to all involved and some funds raised for a worth cause.

The message, hate will not win and it certainly won’t.

Thanks to for arranging 💛🖤

Wednesday we’re out on a litter pick, we want to support our community and our friends Wythenshawe Waste Warriors.

Happy Somedays Festival week is here!

Tonight we have our free community fitness session with hdfitness_wellbeing book here: https://happysomedays.pembee.app/activity/65b182057a0d76958ab63183

We are also heading out this Wednesday evening to do a litter pick between Woodhouse Park Lifestyle Centre and ST Pauls high school the two local venues we host our sessions.

An exciting week for us and all our participants and friends 💛🖤

Which means it’s 1 week until our Festival themed party at the Jolly Butcher featuring playing some belting tunes!

All welcome & it’s free entry 🖤💛

https://facebook.com/events/s/happy-somedays-festival-party/1120449205703544/

One week to go until Happy Somedays Festival 🖤💛

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Who’s coming? 🎉🥳

Great sessions last night, no pic from the lads (they really are shy) but a belter from an impromptu mixed session!

We’re back next week with:

Monday: Free Community Fitness Session - 6-7pm WHP Lifestyle Centre

Tuesday: Womens Football - 7-8pm - Men’s Football - 8-9pm

Saturday: Happy Somedays Festival from 10am!

Exciting times 💛🖤

Not long now until Happy Somedays Festival & Happy Somedays Festival - Party!

Schedule Below! Massive thanks to our sponsors Jolly Butcher Wythenshawe Park Riding Stables Reliable Electrical Supplies

Who you excited to see? 💛🖤

⚽️ Our football sessions are back tonight!

Last week, we had a sold-out men's session, and our women's one was booked up quickly, too, so if you want to play tonight, you need to be quick! Come along and play some no pressure, no stigma casual football.

🕐 Ladies session - 7pm - 8pm
🕐 Men's session - 8pm - 9pm
📍St. Paul's High School, Wythenshawe, M23 2YS
📅 Every Tuesday evening

💻 Head to https://Happysomedays.pembee.app to book on all sessions

Slight update to Happy Somedays Festival the amazing Manchester Laces ️will now be part of our special day and playing us 💛🖤

Massive thanks to them jumping in due to a late change!

Don’t forget on the day we have lots of games going in, we will have an ice cream van present, face painting and much more!

Two amazing sessions tonight!

Lots of new faces too 🖤💛

⚽️ Our men's football session for tonight is now sold out!

If you missed out on booking on, give us a message as we can put you on reserve in case we get anyone dropping out

As a side note, this year, we've had 2572 participants across all of our sessions, which is amazing! You all make Happy Somedays what it is, and we thank each and every one of you for that. From football to fitness and then onto friendship and the family we now have, it's incredible to see!

Looking forwards to some sunny football later 😎

Following a day of football and family fun, we will again hosting our Summer Party at The Jolly Butcher.

This year our guests are Hilda’s Flying Duck (who for the record are brilliant!)

It’s a festival themed party so dress like you’re off to Glasto (minus the mud!)

More information here: https://facebook.com/events/s/happy-somedays-festival-party/1120449205703544/

Not long now!

Happy Somedays Festival will kick off on Saturday 17th August!

We wanted to bring together groups and teams that really showcase including and support everyone.

We are excited to have Boys, Girls, Men, Women and Walking football all part of the day.

And best of all you’re all invited!



Sponsored by Jolly Butcher Reliable Electrical Supplies & Wythenshawe Park Riding Stables

🎙🎧 On Friday 26th July at 8am, a very special episode of our Podcast is releasing on all major platforms

🤝 We were extremely honoured recently to be invited to collaborate with an exciting Football Festival that took place right here in Wythenshawe in mid-July -

⚽️ Ball Together Now is a Trans inclusive festival of football for women and non-binary people. Now in it's 2nd year, 60 teams/incentives from across the UK and Ireland came together across the weekend of the festival for one big celebration of inclusiveness and togetherness to promote opportunities for Women, Trans and Marginalised Genders to have a safe space to play a sport they all love without any prejudice or stigmas attached.

🌈 It was a real pleasure to be invited along to see the festival happen and the impact it is having on the football world and the wider society as we move towards a more inclusive community.
To find out more about the festival, you can follow them on Instagram () or X/Twitter (), plus check out their website www.balltogethernow.com

❤️ Thanks to the participants and incentives featured in this special show, which were: Ball Together Now (), Happy Somedays (), Pride Sports (), Football For Foodbanks CIC (), Rainbow Devils (), Diversity Role Models (), and Manchester Laces ()

Due to a late cancellation we have a pitch and ref next Saturday in Manchester 1pm kick off for a mens friendly game.

Mixed ability groups / teams.

That means no Saturday / Sunday leagues teams / charity teams of a high ability.

Drop us a tweet / DM if you fit the bill.

What a weekend at roll on next year 🖤💛

🔜 The Happy Somedays Podcast is on location this weekend at , which is taking place right here in Wythenshawe!

⚽️ Now in it's 2nd year, Ball Together Now is a Trans inclusive festival of football for women and non-binary people which promises to be bigger and better than it's first year in 2023, with 60 teams taking part across the weekend of 13th-14th July 2024 at Wythenshawe Sports Ground, Willenhall Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester, M23 0BD

🗣 If you're at the festival, either playing or watching and you fancy giving your team or your cause a shout out, come and find Josh on Sunday in the Sports Pavilion and have a chat to be featured in a special collaborative episode. Also, look out for updates regarding our own ladies' teams success across the weekend!

This weekend we have a team entered in which is hosted in our hometown of Wythenshawe!

Josh will also be down there doing a special edition of the podcast but more information on that later this week!

Good luck to our squad and we hope you have the best weekend 💛🖤

📅⚽️ It's Tuesday! This means it's our football sessions for both men and women over at St. Paul's tonight.

Ladies: 7-8pm
Men's: 8-9pm

At the time of posting, our ladies' game is SOLD OUT, however if you are wanting to play just give us a message and we can add you to a reserve list in case of any last minute drop outs.

There are plenty of spaces left on the men's game at this moment in time.

Come along for some no pressure, no stigma, non-judgemental football in a supportive environment. We hope to see you there!

Big thanks to for making the journey to Manchester from Wales, a brilliant game with both teams playing some great football but again proving that football can be inclusive for all.

The score is irrelevant to us but what matters is everyone had a good day, well done to Players of the match, Ross & Meg!

Thanks for coming back to the Jolly Butcher and we hope enjoyed the food and football! 💛🖤

Sidenote: we really need to get better at photographs and group pics 😫😂

Our men's football provision welcomes Jumpers for Goalposts back to Wythenshawe this weekend for another game amongst our series of summer networking friendlies.

Feel free to come along and show your support! Details are:

📍 St Paul's High School, Firbank Road, Wythenshawe, M23 2YS

📅 Saturday 6th July

🕐 ⚽️ 1pm KO

📢 After our game has finished, we'd be honoured for everyone attending to join us at the Jolly Butcher pub in Baguley to watch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 vs 🇨🇭 and the next step on football's journey home. Come on England!

This Sunday 30th June, our men's football provision welcomes to Wythenshawe for a networking friendly.

Feel free to come along and show your support! Details are:

📍 St Paul's High School, Firbank Road, Wythenshawe, M23 2YS

📅 Sunday 30th June

🕐 ⚽️ 2pm

(Side note - We will be finished in plenty of time for the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 game!)

🎙🎧 Episode 21 of our Podcast has gone live this morning

👥 Our guest for this is "local legend", Lewis BigLou Jones, a brilliant comedian and all round good guy.

📆 Tonight- Sunday 23rd June 2024 - 'Big Lou: Name Dropper' will be treading the boards of where so many comedy legends have performed before at the Lowry Quays Theatre in Salford.

🔘️ 'Name Dropper' comes from the fact that Lewis always thought that he would be famous. He was a nobody who always thought he would be a somebody. After 15 years working in hotel catering, he ended up with a job working for a private aviation company at Manchester Airport, where he met an incredible amount of famous faces - a real who's who of music, sport, entertainment and more!
The show tells the story of how a nobody who thought he'd be a somebody ended up meeting almost everybody!

🔘 In this podcast, Big Lou will explain the origins of the show further, go into some encounters that didn't make the final cut, explain his comedy beginnings and why he is so thankful for finding a comedy course that took place right here in Wythenshawe and the effect is has had on his life and what he hopes to achieve and do next with the show once the performance at the Lowry is done.

Big thanks to Lewis for coming on to plug it. If you'd like to see the show yourself, last minute tickets are available here:
https://thelowry.com/whats-on/big-lou-name-dropper-quays/

You can also keep up with where Lewis is performing next by following his social media page:

https://www.facebook.com/BigLouComedy

🎙🎧 Coming soon...

Our Podcast is back very soon indeed with special guest Lewis BigLou Jones who will be plugging his 'ultimate bucket list' item - his own solo show performing stand-up comedy at The Lowry Theatre in Salford Quays.

His comedy career started in Wythenshawe in 2009, and across the last 15 years, he has built up a repertoire of material from thousands of gigs. But it is his previous life working at Manchester Airport that is the inspiration behind this show, his encounters with various celebs working for a private airline company that make up the anecdotes of 'Name Dropper'.

Lewis is performing in the Quays Theatre at the Lowry THIS SUNDAY. You are in for a real treat if you are able to attend. Last tickets are available here: https://thelowry.com/whats-on/big-lou-name-dropper-quays/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR31DdJNwiBkwFCEfjY9P7Zr_q7J0ZOaLh9BiYQWjkpqleMAJbxwJZClzn4_aem_zhi91KmWM1fw2mjt3ndugQ

This will be a great chat, so look out for it dropping over the weekend!