September 2023

Readers will be aware that 2023 marks the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the NHS and so this year the Trust was keen to ensure it had a suitably large presence in the Manchester Pride Parade and to ensure that their efforts were captured for their Internal LGBT Community along the wider community of healthcare workers across the whole of the Trust.

The clubs association with the Trust began in 2022, when it was invited to photograph the Trusts contribution to the Pride Parade, and it seems they were so pleased with the results that they appointed OCC their official photographers for this years much enlarged representation. 

Mindful of the need to photograph a projected 200 plus members of the Trust as they gathered for the parade and then capture their experiences as they paraded through the streets of Manchester, the club was able to call upon the invaluable experience of Dave Kennedy from the Leica Store in Police Street  Manchester to assist the clubs representatives Roger Donallon, and Heather and Steven Birds to capture the events of the day and return to the Trust over 800 informal images, for use on their internal network, which boasts a potential audience of some 26,000 people. A few of the images, selected at random from the ones each photographer took appear below.

It seems everyone enjoyed themselves and Oldham Camera Club would like to take this opportunity to thank the Trust for expressing their confidence in its members to deliver what they required in terms of images and in particular to thank David and the rest of the team at the Leica Store in Manchester for enthusiastically supporting the club and helping out on the day.

The Trust were so pleased with the results…that they have already asked if we will cover the event again for them next year. !