By Jonathan White
The Bob Hope Table Tennis Academy based in Nantwich has officially opened.
The opening was part of an all day table tennis festival held at the club’s purpose built facility on London Road at the Elim Church site.
Nantwich Food Festival organisers are staging a “welcome” event to encourage new volunteers to come forward.
The event takes place on Tuesday May 9 at the Red Cow pub on Beam Street from 7pm.
The Aqueduct Marina Boating Event, last held in 2019, will return in July this year.
The event is being held at the marina at Church Minshull near Nantwich between 10am – 4pm for day visitors and from 6pm until later for those who want to enjoy the evening’s entertainment.
Some of Cheshire’s most beautiful gardens are being opened up to the public for all to enjoy in aid of St Luke’s Hospice.
Several hospice supporters are opening their gardens this summer, while others who already open their gardens as part of the National Garden Scheme will raise money for the hospice through the sale of afternoon teas.
Nantwich Roots Festival – which runs from May 15 to 21 inclusive – is to stage a one-off event in aid of Ukraine featuring a Ukrainian choir!
Festival organisers were keen to dedicate one night of this year’s festival to a fundraiser, with all profits going to the Disasters Emergency Committee for the ongoing Humanitarian work in Ukraine.
Nantwich businesses and St Mary’s Church are getting ready for the King’s Coronation weekend.
Independent stores in the town centre have been dressing up their windows with Coronation-themed displays.
Folk rock legends Lindisfarne will continue their 2023 UK tour with a performance at Nantwich Roots Festival in the Civic Hall next month.
The band, who’s album ‘Fog on The Tyne’ gave them their breakthrough in the UK, will play in Nantwich on May 19.
By Jonathan White
The annual “Wybunbury Fig Pie Wakes” will take place in the village near Nantwich on Saturday June 10.
The quirky family-friendly event is organised by the Wybunbury Tower Preservation Trust and opens at 1pm with the pie rolling from 3pm.
Nantwich runners of all ages and abilities are being invited to take on the challenge of Mow Cop Killer Mile as the famous event returns for 2023.
The mile-long road race, which features 550 feet of continuous climbing and a 25% gradient in places, takes place on Thursday, May 11.
Everybody Health and Leisure has launched “This Girl Can” classes in Cheshire East.
The organisation has partnered with EMD UK, the national governing body for group exercise, to run the sessions.
South Cheshire Harriers’ annual Easter Sunday 10km race attracted special guest Port Vale Club President, John Rudge, as well as more than 300 runners from across the region.
The race, supported by Avanti West Coast, was a sell out event with male winner Alun Dight completing the course in 31:53 and female winner Donna Sherwin in 37:06.
Packed venues across Nantwich enjoyed a bumper Jazz & Blues Festival over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, which police say passed “largely peacefully”.
The festival featured more than 100 gigs at pubs, restaurants, and other sites across Nantwich.
By Jonathan White
Hundreds took place in the second annual “Nantwich 10k” road race to help raise funds for Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The race took more than 1,000 participants on a 10k (6.2 miles) loop on closed roads, starting and finishing close to Nantwich town square.
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