More than 22,000 supermarket and energy vouchers have been sent out to vulnerable children and families across Cheshire East – with more in the pipeline to cover the Easter school holiday.
The scheme has been coordinated by Cheshire East Council with schools, colleges, early years settings and other family support services.
Cheshire East Council bosses say they will distribute more food and energy vouchers to vulnerable children and families ahead of the February half term.
More than 11,000 vouchers have been distributed so far, funded from Cheshire East’s share of the government’s £170 million Covid Winter Grant Scheme launched in December last year.
Work to improve a South Cheshire cemetery which had caused upset among bereaved families, has been completed.
The project at Meadowbrook Cemetery in Crewe aimed to improve access to an area for cremated remains.
Nantwich Museum will be among venues across the North West bringing children and families a day of online activities at their “Museums@Home 2020” event on August 30.
By Stephen Topping
The number of homeless households in temporary accommodation across Cheshire has risen year-on-year, according to new Government figures.
Street restaurant in Nantwich is to open on Christmas Day to help families and children struggling to afford the celebrations.
Bosses at Street Nantwich, on Welsh Row, are now appealing for help to reach out to those families deserving of help.
Families in Nantwich and Crewe have been hosting students from across the globe.
More than 200 young people have travelled to the area to study at South Cheshire College for a taste of education in UK.
Hundreds of families flocked to Reaseheath College in Nantwich for the first lambing weekend event of the year.
Spring has sprung in the college’s lambing sheds with the arrival of the first newborns of the season.
Almost 600 troubled families in Cheshire East are to be targeted by the Government as part of a new David Cameron initiative. The Government wants to transform the lives of 120,000 troubled families under the new £450million project.
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