NEG About

Manchester
England

About North English GrommOffs (NEG):

Origins:

Greater Manchester GrommOffs (GMG) started in the beginning of 2015 officially, however we did have 2 unofficial events happen from October 2014 and have been happening every to every other month since. In 2017 NWG started running alongside GMG but for the areas outside Manchester. In 2018 NWG started being used for all former GMG events. NWGs traditionally target the areas around Greater Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, and Sheffield, however, others have joined in and through our Travel NWGs we have created a few additional monickers of East Midlands GrommOff (EMG), West Midlands GrommOff (WMG), North East GrommOff (NEG), and East Anglia GrommOff (EAG). Further afield we have Twin Cities GrommOff (TCG) in Minnesota, USA, and North Rhinelander Westphalia GrommOff (NRWG) now Stammtisch in Germany.

North West GrommOffs (NWG) in 2019 merged with North East GrommOffs (NEG) to form the North English GrommOffs (NEG) this happened at the same time as the East Midlands and West Midlands GrommOffs merged to become the English Midlands GrommOffs (EMG) to simplify our English GrommOffs both of which now meet roughly 3 times a year.

More about EMG: https://Grommr.com/event/EMG

Questions:

Some questions have been asked about how many people come and what happens at a GrommOff? Well we feel it only right to answer and here it is. We have seen from 3-14 guys at every event from the very beginning. As to what happens, well that varies on what people want and the event though typically a social activity and food are staples for every NEG and EMG. This is an event to meet guys in the local area in person so as not to feel stuck in a potential bad date and to feel safe in a public get together setting, so as to be less stressful about the person you are meeting from online.

Here is a list of some of these have happened:

Food: Buffet, Restaurant, and even a Grub Crawl

Social Activities: Bowling, Irish Festival, Pool Party, Karaoke, Christmas Markets

You can see a lot of things can happen and we are completely open to new ideas add yours via this form: http://goo.gl/forms/NZ8VLkqvy1

Please note that Fatsohugebig, the NEG/EMG founder, is looking for others to help him run these events locally, let him know if you're interested otherwise if you are outside the area visit GrommOff https://www.grommr.com/Member/Details/GrommOff who is the official liaison of Grommr GrommOffs.

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Links:

Ideas: http://goo.gl/forms/NZ8VLkqvy1

Booking: http://goo.gl/forms/llZMZYBjBI

Participation Survey: http://goo.gl/forms/jdgB7J4kv2

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Travel for Manchester:

See Free Shuttle Map for Points of Interest, Car Parks, Train Stations, Bus Interchanges, and Tram Stops as updated on the 28th of June.

By Car: For car parks Arndale is fairly cheap with plenty of room Piccadilly and palace are multi-storey car parks closer to the village.

By City Bus: Piccadilly Gardens is the main bus terminus for routes to manchester city centre and is not too far away from Arndale nor the gay village.

By Intercity Bus: Shudehill near Victoria train station and Central Coach Station near the village are the 2 major Coach bus stations Megabus uses Shudehill and is fairly cheap while National Express uses Central Coach Station. Both have nearby Free shuttle links, see photo.

By Tram: For Trams the Market Street Tram stop is the best for Arndale and Piccadilly Gardens/Station are closer to the Village.

By Train: For Trains Victoria is close to Arndale and Piccadilly to the village though All train stations in Manchester are linked via the free shuttle bus service. See photo.

Free Shuttle system runs on Saturday 8am to 7:30pm every 10 minutes (green 2) and every 8 minutes (orange 1) and connects the 4 train stations of Manchester and 2 Bus exchanges as well as providing a link between the 2 ends of the city crossing. See Photo.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask me/Fatsohugebig as he knows most of the transportation system around Manchester or where to look.

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Travel for Liverpool:

By Car: Liverpool One has a lot of Parking

By City bus: Queens Square Bus Station is the closest though Liverpool One is not far away.

By Intercity bus: Megabus uses Liverpool One and National express uses Liverpool Coach station

By Train: Liverpool Central is the closest train station though Liverpool Lime St is not far away.

These are all near where we will be in Liverpool.