Nantwich’s Salvation Army shop has launched its Christmas Charity Shop Challenge.
The Beam Street store, one of 200 across the UK, is challenging people to spend a little of their Christmas budget in charity shops to help those in need.
By Jonathan White
The Nantwich Saturday Night Sequence Dancers have raised £1,000 for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.
The money was presented by the group to Liz and Mike Boffey, from the South Cheshire branch of Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.
Two South Cheshire friends are organising a charity “Moustache Bash” in aid St Luke’s Hospice.
Now Nick Hughes-Jones and Dan McGarry have issued a plea for the community to get behind them and snap up tickets for the event.
More than £1,600 has been raised by a Nantwich marina in aid of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.
The bumper donation was raised by staff and customers at Aqueduct Marina, Church Minshull.
The RSPCA wildlife centre and cattery in Nantwich has teamed up with Sainsbury’s to hold collection points for donations of tinned dog or cat food.
Bosses at the Middlewich Road store approached the RSPCA Stapeley Grange manager Lee Stewart with the idea of holding collection points for food for the London Road animal centre.
A new neonatal intensive care unit funded by a two-year charity appeal has been officially opened at Leighton Hospital, near Nantwich.
Guests including Crewe & Nantwich MP Edward Timpson, who attended the opening, were given a tour of the unit to see the new facilities.
A Nantwich vet helped to raise hundreds of pounds for poorly children at Alder Hey Hospital – by caking herself in mud!
Laura Atkinson, from Aston, completed the “Tough Mudder” course at Cholmondeley Castle to help raise £550 for the hospital.
Nantwich Seals swimming club has been boosted by a Cheshire East Council grant of £3,000.
The council splashed the cash to help the club buy new equipment and keep fees down.
The Oxfam shop in Nantwich is urging residents to drop off unwanted musical instruments as part of a new UK-wide initiative.
Oxfam is involved in the “Don’t Stop The Music” campaign which aims to provide schoolchildren with instruments which may have been lying unused in people’s homes.
A team of workers from a South Cheshire car dealership toughed it out in the Cholmondeley mud to raise £1,000 for charity.
They tackled the annual Tough Mudder challenge in the grounds of Cholmondeley Castle in aid of Children In Need.
By Jonathan White
Real ale lovers were in heaven at a Nantwich pub’s fund-raising “festival of beer”.
There were 41 real ales on offer at the three-day event in The Globe Inn on Audlem Road.
Nantwich Town manager Danny Johnson has taken part in the charity Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon.
Johnson joined millions of others around the globe taking part in the challenge in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Association.
The RSPCA Stapeley Grange cattery is issued a desperate plea to find homes for abandoned cats.
Staff at the centre on London Road in Nantwich say they are now full and cannot take any more cats or kittens.
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