Businesses across the region are being given an opportunity to enhance their staff’s physical and financial wellbeing, thanks to a successful ‘skills swap’ between two Stockport organisations. Life Leisure, which manages sport and leisure facilities [Read More]
Tough Tribe – one of the UK’s most exciting newcomers to the OCR (obstacle course race) – is returning to Stockport after a successful debut in 2017. It will take place on Sunday, September 23, at [Read More]
Life Leisure’s Sport Development Team is bidding for a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants from £1,000 [Read More]
Stockport’s main leisure centre, Grand Central, is undergoing a £2.8m refurbishment with upgraded gym changing and showers now open and work taking place on a new health spa. The new spa at the facility managed [Read More]
Former media make-up artist Anita Nickson believes regular gym sessions helped save her life after she developed a serious auto-immune disease. Anita, 50, from Stockport, became a weekly visitor to the Avondale gym after being [Read More]
Twelve months ago, 43-year-old John Lee was on the brink of developing Type 2 diabetes. Weighing almost 16.6 stone, and measuring 5ft 4inches, the father-of-four was warned by his GP that he was “a heart [Read More]
Retired maths teacher Brian Povey has always had a passion for numbers, but one particular figure now means more to him than most. Just eight years on from a heart attack, the 70-year-old is celebrating [Read More]
Stockport’s elite athletes, clubs and volunteers were rewarded for their hard work and dedication at Sport Stockport’s annual sports awards at Houldsworth Golf Club in Reddish. Winners of the nine awards were announced on the [Read More]
More than 500 runners and obstacle race enthusiasts took part in the first-ever Tough Tribe event in Stockport. The event at Stockport Sports Village, set to be an annual fixture, was the brainchild of charitable trust [Read More]
More than 1,000 runners took to the streets and trails of Stockport for the Big Stockport Run – an event that has doubled in size in just two years. The 10km and family fun race, [Read More]
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