Graham Witter has been hailed a hero by hospice chiefs after raising an incredible £26,760 for local children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
Graham once again transformed his family home in Weston near Crewe into a magical light spectacular in December.
The biggest St Luke’s Hospice fundraiser of the year is receiving a New Year makeover – and for the first time will include men!
The “Midnight Walk”, which has seen thousands of women taking part in a sponsored walk between Nantwich and Crewe for the past 14 years, will look a little different this year, say organisers.
A Nantwich mum with a phobia of heights is embarking on a mountain climb challenge in Africa to help raise funds for a local Adventure Farm trust.
Sarah Smith, 43, is hoping the charity trek to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro will raise more than £2,000 to fund youngsters’ breaks at the Adventure Farm Trust in Altrincham.
Cancer Research UK Race for Life events will not take place at Reaseheath College in Nantwich and Delamere Forest in 2019, organisers have revealed.
They say they are having to reduce the number of the “smaller” events in the county.
Crewe and Nantwich Round Table have broken festive records this Christmas after collecting more than £11,000 on Santa’s Float.
The float has spent the last two weeks on its traditional tour of all corners of Crewe, Nantwich and surrounding villages.
A Nantwich patient cared for at Crewe’s Leighton Hospital this year, has handed over £4,000 to the Breast Care Unit team.
Barbara Burrows and her husband Nigel held an event at their home, hoping to raise around £1,000 for the unit.
By Jonathan White
The 7th annual Nantwich Santa Dash took place today to raise funds for Hope House Hospice.
The best dressed competition was judged by Neil Clarke, of Recycling UK Limited, and was then followed by an energetic warm-up to Christmas music before everyone moved to the start line.
A Crewe & Nantwich fundraising group is appealing for new members to help support the work of Cancer Research UK.
The fundraising group has already raised more than £45,000 in 2018 to help fund its life-saving work.
Richmond Village Nantwich teamed up with one of the country’s newest Rotary Clubs for a “Who’s wine is it anyway” night and raised £1,800 for Nantwich Foodbank.
Wyche-Malbank Nantwich Rotary Club was formed in the summer, after being founded by two members of staff from the retirement village, Lynne Griffin and Nicola Jackson.
South Cheshire bar firm Beer Dock is raffling off a signed guitar of the late Pete Shelley, to raise funds for local Foodbanks.
Sam McGarrigle, who runs Beer Dock with shops in Crewe and Nantwich, remembered he had the guitar stored away after Buzzcocks frontman Shelley died aged 63 last week.
Big-hearted Nantwich methodist Richard Fox swapped his birthday gifts for donations – and raised £660 for the dementia appeal.
Richard, a member of Nantwich Broad Lane Methodist Chapel, decided to ask his friends and family to donate to the “Everybody Knows Somebody – dementia appeal” instead of buying him birthday presents.
Pupils in Nantwich cooked up a great idea to raise funds for charity when they staged their own Great British Bake Off contest!
Young bakers at Highfields Academy wowed judges with a stunning array of painstakingly decorated cakes and biscuits.
A prostate cancer group which offers support, awareness and prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing for Crewe and Nantwich men has raised almost £2,000 Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity.
The money has been used to buy three specialised phlebotomy chairs, two for the Phlebotomy Service and one for the Imaging Department at Leighton Hospital.
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