A British Transport Police officer is putting the wheels in motion for his next Nantwich charity cycle ride – which saw him raise more than £20,000 for Alzheimer’s Society in 2014.
Darren Greatbanks, who lost his dad Mike to Alzheimer’s in April this year, held the Alzheimer’s 100 cycle ride at the beginning of Dementia Awareness Week in May.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity at Leighton Hospital has reached £250,000 in its MRI Scanner Appeal.
Charity bosses say they have been “overwhelmed” by the response to their latest appeal.
Members of a charity group called Movers & Shakers have helped to raise £89,000 for two causes.
The fundraising committee of the group held a Sunday Night Supper evening to raise awareness and much-needed funds for The Cure Parkinson’s Trust, and Kidney Research UK.
The Oxfam shop in Nantwich is one of just 21 in the UK chosen to sell an exclusive vinyl by Tim Burgess, lead singer of The Charlatans.
The vinyl is a collaboration between Burgess and best-selling author Ian Rankin
Hospital bosses in South Cheshire have launched a festive fundraising campaign for the MRI Scanner Appeal – called “Send Us Your Elfie”!
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity wants people to don their best elf outfit and take a selfie, post it on social media sites, and nominate friends, family and colleagues to join in.
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.
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