St Luke’s (Cheshire) Hospice is to stage its nerve-shredding Fire Walk Challenge to help raise vital funds. The hospice is looking for daring fundraisers from South Cheshire to complete two-hours training before walking 15ft barefoot, over red-hot wood embers reaching a scorching 800°F.
A Nantwich golf club event helped to raise more than £1,000 in honour of a young boy badly injured in a skiing accident. Teams taking part in the Brook Hill Foundation Am-Am at Brookfield Golf Club in Hankelow helped to raise £1,153.
A brass band of 30 musicians from across Britain including two ex-Nantwich pupils, has completed an amazing Three Peaks Challenge. Ex Brine Leas pupils Ian and Sarah Raisbeck were among those who conquered the challenge complete with instruments.
Nantwich residents are invited to the Macmillan Cancer Unit at Leighton Hospital for coffee and cake as part of a national fundraising day. The Macmillan team is taking part in Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday September 27.
Three friends from a Nantwich village celebrated their 50th birthdays – by raising vital cash for a local Scout group. Rick Carter, Ade Peever and Giles Semper teamed up to hold a joint party at The Swan Inn, in Wybunbury.
St Luke’s (Cheshire) Hospice is appealing to South Cheshire residents to help mark its milestone 25th anniversary in style. The hospice has launched a commemorative £25,000 fundraising campaign.
The RSPCA Stapeley Grange cattery in Nantwich is desperate for new homes to cope with rising numbers of abandoned and stray cats and kittens. Staff at the London Road facility fear the centre is reaching crisis point unless more people come forward to offer homes.
Three Nantwich friends have completed a London to Paris cycle ride to raise vital hospice cash. Charlie Gobbett, Tony Hoy and Gareth Roberts took on the three-day “Avenue Verte” challenge in aid of St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice.
A volunteers group has been thanked for helping buy new wheelchairs for hospital patients. The Royal Voluntary Service has worked with Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) to bring in 40 new wheelchairs for visitors and patients at Leighton Hospital.
A dedicated St Luke’s (Cheshire) Hospice supporter is in training for a once-in-a-lifetime climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Becky Platt, 26, who works in the catering department at Reaseheath College in Nantwich, is all set for her gruelling challenge.
The Wingate Centre in Wrenbury has been chosen as the Sainsbury’s Nantwich store’s charity of the year. And fund-raising is off to a flying start by selling the store’s award-winning cheese at the Nantwich Show.
A 60-year-0ld has completed a tough “60 at 60” fundraising challenge in Nantwich – on his birthday! Ben Reinhardt, from Crewe, swam 60 lengths of Nantwich outdoor pool, cycled 60km and then ran for 60 minutes.
Fundraisers who helped pay for a new neonatal unit for Nantwich and Crewe families have seen plans for the project. Donors to the Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity’s One in Eleven Appeal were invited to Leighton Hospital to view plans for the new unit.
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