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  • [ 17th June 2022 ] Heaton Moor Rugby Club raises £500 for Emmie’s Kitchen Charity
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  • [ 3rd June 2022 ] Community reporters crowned with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service Business
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South Manchester is a busy and vibrant business area and is to become the centre of the Northern Powerhouse. It is home to Trafford Park, one of Europe’s biggest industrial parks, and is home to a number of international brands including Adidas, AstraZeneca and Kellogg’s. This section will cover businesses large and small, start-ups and multi-nationals, across South Manchester, Stockport, Trafford and Cheshire.

Jo McGrath, director of Sector3 Stockport
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Investment and training programme launched for Stockport entrepreneurs to tackle inequalities

5th June 2022 Kirsty Day

An £8.25m investment and support programme will support entrepreneurs to start or grow businesses that tackle inequalities in communities. The Proper Good programme is offering grant funding, social investment and free-to-access, tailored training and business [Read More]

Talking About My Generation reporters
Business

Community reporters crowned with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

3rd June 2022 Kirsty Day

Community reporters from the UK’s first older people’s led newsroom has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. The team of volunteers which run the Greater Manchester-based news platform Talking About My Generation create [Read More]

Business

Kids’ media club reaches 1,000 ‘mini reporters’ since launch

11th May 2022 Kirsty Day

A Greater Manchester-based kids’ media club has reached 1,000 children since launching. Media Cubs, the pop-up TV studio and newsroom club for children, has delivered after-school clubs, holiday camps and virtual clubs across the region [Read More]

Grace Dyke and Kirsty Day
Business

Social entrepreneur secures investment to expand community media projects

10th April 2022 Kirsty Day

A Trafford-based social entrepreneur has secured investment to expand their projects that enable people aged seven to 70 to develop news reporting and media skills. Kirsty Day, from Sale, has been awarded £21,600 from the [Read More]

Matthew Peoples
Business

Clarion Wealth Planning appoints trainee associate financial planner

29th May 2021 Paul Harrison

Cheshire-based Clarion Wealth Planning has appointed a new trainee associate financial planner. Matthew Peoples, 21, was so eager to begin his career in the finance sector he completed his cybersecurity degree at Sheffield Hallam University [Read More]

Business

Manchester Credit Union invests in workforce to increase members and grow payroll partnerships

13th May 2021 Kirsty Day

Manchester Credit Union has made two new appointments to grow its membership and build new partnerships with companies across the city and beyond, so workers reap the benefits of loans and savings. The social enterprise, [Read More]

Life Leisure fitness staff
Business

Life Leisure centres open as lockdown eases

12th April 2021 Paul Harrison

Stockport’s Life Leisure has reopened its doors to fitness fans. Following the Government’s announcement that it is now safe to reopen gyms and swimming pools, the fitness provider has confirmed its Stockport-based centres are open. This [Read More]

Staff at the Community Grocery Store
Business

Community Grocery receives £1,000 from Amazon in the Community

5th March 2021 Paul Harrison

The Amazon team in Manchester has donated £1,000 to a charity based in Wythenshawe in Manchester. The Community Grocery is a low-cost food shop in Wythenshawe and is a branch of The Message Trust charity [Read More]

Children at Wythenshawe Children's Centre
Business

Wythenshawe Children’s Centre handed £2,000 Amazon donation

27th November 2020 Paul Harrison

A children’s charity based in Wythenshawe has received a donation of £2,000 from the Amazon fulfilment centre in Manchester as it continues its services following the impact of Covid-19. The staff and volunteers at Wythenshawe [Read More]

Jackie Atkins
Business

Boutique estate agency launches in Hale

9th October 2020 Kirsty Day

A new estate agency is set to make its home in Hale – but it won’t be found on the high street. Hale Homes will be headed up by Jackie Atkins, who has 30 years’ [Read More]

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  • Photo caption: Coach Martin Hagger (right) with Stephen Nicholas from Emmie’s Kitchen with the rest of the Heaton Moor under-14s players and coaches
    Heaton Moor Rugby Club raises £500 for Emmie’s Kitchen
    17th June 2022
  • Jo McGrath, director of Sector3 Stockport
    Investment and training programme launched for Stockport entrepreneurs to tackle inequalities
    5th June 2022
  • Talking About My Generation reporters
    Community reporters crowned with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
    3rd June 2022
  • Kids’ media club reaches 1,000 ‘mini reporters’ since launch
    11th May 2022
  • Grace Dyke and Kirsty Day
    Social entrepreneur secures investment to expand community media projects
    10th April 2022
  • Young reporters put the Deputy Mayor in the spotlight
    30th November 2021
  • Chorlton project reclaims car parking spaces for people
    30th November 2021
  • More Mancunians set to gain financial wellbeing following credit union campaign  
    30th November 2021
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    Milk and Honey: Popular community cafe reopens
    15th October 2021
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    5th October 2021

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