A grandfather of four is celebrating after receiving the MBE for services to a children’s charity and the Nantwich community.
Geoff Parsons received the honour for his long service to the Wingate Special Children’s Trust, as well as Nantwich Rotary and Guy Harvey Youth Centre.
South Cheshire Harriers runners have been cycling and pounding the streets in December – this time in aid of Nantwich Food Bank.
Local runners and cyclists have been braving the elements every day during Christmas Advent to raise awareness of the cause.
The Rotary Club of Nantwich has helped to raise £1,800 for a school in Nepal.
The Nantwich club, officially ‘twinned’ with the Rotary Club of the Himalayan Gurkhas, will help fund a water and sanitation block for 25 children and staff of Golmaraja Lower Secondary School.
By Jonathan White
Hundreds of Santas donned their red suits and beards to take part in the annual Nantwich Santa Dash.
There were two Santa Dash distances – one lap of 2.5 kilometres or two laps of five kilometres – which both followed the same route around the town centre.
By Jonathan White
Santa Claus has taken time off from his busy schedule to meet and hand out presents to boys and girls at his Nantwich Grotto.
He has set up a branch of his Grotto in the attic of the Nantwich Bookshop & Coffee Lounge on High Street.
Nantwich Concert Band and Nantwich Young Voices raised more than £450 for Cancer Research at a church concert.
The groups staged a performance at St Mary’s Church in Nantwich in aid of Crewe & Nantwich Cancer Research UK.
A South Cheshire student is unveiling his popular Weston Christmas Lights display in memory of his late sister.
Graham Witter has been working round the clock since October to turn Carters Green Farm in Weston into a festive lights spectacular.
The Nantwich Rotary Christmas Sleigh with Santa on board will be making its annual visit to the streets of Nantwich soon.
The Sleigh’s fund-raising journey will cover 3,000 houses from December 5 to December 19.
Reaseheath College students in Nantwich served up a host of fundraising activities to support BBC Children in Need.
Students and staff rallied together to raise funds by running activities including attempting the longest badminton rally!
Generous South Cheshire College staff helped raised more than £800 in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support.
The college’s award-winning Academy Restaurant and Deli hosted the event, where a selection of cakes were served throughout the morning.
Leighton Hospital bosses have unveiled a new MRI scanner after a two-year fundraising campaign.
The appeal was launched by Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity in March 2014 and has raised more than £960,000.
Nantwich folk have a chance to take part in a charity trek of a lifetime – up Mount Kilimanjaro!
The trek will help raise vital funds for Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity, C.R.Y For Matthew, and Wingate Children’s Centre in Wrenbury.
More than 50 people attended a charity fashion show at M&Co in Nantwich, which raised more than £400 for charity Climb.
Models, including staff, customers and their families and friends from the local community, took a turn on the catwalk.
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