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Beach Buggy Calendar Now Available

7th December 2010
You can now order your very own beach buggy calendar and help to make a difference to patients at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Andy Thompson and Tony Price have got together to produce the...


The Lowry Hotel Cheques In

9th August 2010
Staff from The Lowry Hotel recently visited the children's hospital to present Jenny Yates, Corporate and Inidividual Fundraising Manager with a cheque for over £2,200. Staff from the hotel...


Cameron’s Crew Create Castles

30th July 2010
Cameron and  around 20 friends set a challenge to see how many sandcastles they could build in one hour. On a cloudy and windy Saturday they hit the beach at Lytham St Anne's with buckets and...


Swap Till You Drop

26th July 2010
Take 100 ladies, add cocktails, cupcakes and rails and rails of clothes and you get The Bruntwood Clothes Swap Party. Guests joined in the fun at 1 New York Street to swap clothes and enjoy some...


Humphrey Joins Kids Allowed Storytime

13th July 2010
Toddlers at Kids Allowed Nursery in Cheadle met Humphrey when he recently joined their storytime.  Humphrey visited the award winning childcare centre to thank them for being the first...


Sunny Thinking Shines

9th July 2010
Sale-based marketing consultancy Sunny Thinking has launched a children’s book to tell the story of its first two successful years in business and is donating all proceeds from the book to hel...


Schools Score with Premiership Star Visit

28th June 2010
Everton captain Phil Neville and his wife Julie took to the air on Friday (25th June) on a whistle stop schools tour to personally thank pupils for taking part in Wear What U Want Day, a schools...


RBS Banks on Three Peaks Challenge Success

26th May 2010
The seven strong team of Richard Aspinall, Matt Davies, Joe Riley, Robin Tait, Frank Palazzo, Chris Payne, David Tomkinson and Alan Bennett, set off for Scotland to take on Ben Nevis.  At 4.30pm...

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