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Didsbury florist celebrates a decade in business

11th October 2019 Paul Harrison

Award-winning Didsbury florist boutique, The Flower Lounge, celebrated turning 10 with a community birthday party . The event included flower crown making, face painting, birthday cakes and fizz, plus the launch of a brand-new birthday [Read More]

Calendar to feature the best photographs taken in Stockport

9th October 2019 Paul Harrison

The Vernon Building Society is looking for the best photographs taken in and around Stockport for its 2020 calendar. Running for the eighth year, this competition gives the local community the opportunity to have their [Read More]

Yellow Jigsaws Kirsty Day and Grace Dyke celebrate with friends, family and clients

Media and PR social enterprise Yellow Jigsaw celebrates fifth birthday

2nd October 2019 Paul Harrison

Manchester media and PR social enterprise Yellow Jigsaw has celebrated its fifth birthday. Former MEN Media journalist Kirsty Day and charity project manager, Grace Dyke, started Yellow Jigsaw CIC in 2014 to specialise in communications [Read More]

The winning groups in the 2018 Vernon Building Society Community Awards

Vernon Community Awards shortlist revealed

3rd September 2019 Paul Harrison

The 14 groups that will share £10,000 in Vernon Community Awards have been revealed. A judging panel at the Stockport building society reviewed 98 applications from not-for-profit organisations in Stockport. The 14 groups on the [Read More]

St Ann’s Business Development Director Paul Jarvis with Emma Hamnett from Clarke Willmott.

Businesses challenged to turn £100 into charity funds in Accumulator Challenge

23rd August 2019 Claire Briscoe

St Ann’s Hospice is calling for businesses to sign up to take on the ultimate corporate challenge this Autumn. The Accumulator Challenge is back for 2019, supporting St Ann’s as Dragons’ Den meets The Apprentice [Read More]

Former footballer a rising star in business community

14th August 2019 Paul Harrison

Former footballer Seb Rowe has been recognised as a business champion changing lives in Stockport. The former Bury trainee, now the Assistant Head of Operations for Life Leisure, is one of four contenders shortlisted to [Read More]

Gerrard Appleton, Phil Evans and Jane Bulley with Eamonn O'Neal

Garage drives up donations for St Ann’s Hospice

17th July 2019 Claire Briscoe

A garage is driving up donations for St Ann’s Hospice with its latest fundraising initiative. BI Appleton in Heald Green is donating £5 from every MOT it carries out in July and August to the [Read More]

Friends revved up to revive Timperley garage

6th July 2019 Kirsty Day

Two friends have turned their passion for cars into a business by reviving a garage in Timperley. Ben Ray and Martin Stone – who have each 20 years’ experience in the industry and are long-time [Read More]

Life Leisure wins two awards for work with community and staff

14th June 2019 Paul Harrison

Life Leisure has won two awards for its services to the community and its staff. The charitable trust that manages 12 sports and leisure facilities in and around Stockport and one in Cumbria returned victorious [Read More]

Air Products makes donation to St Ann’s Hospice

30th May 2019 Claire Briscoe

An outstanding safety record has seen industrial gas company Air Products donating £7,226 to St Ann’s Hospice in the last three years. Each year the company’s employees around the country are set a target of [Read More]