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Staff from Harvest Housing Group in South Manchester are pictured putting their best foot forward in preparation for the Manchester Midnight Walk in aid of the charity on May 23.
The group’s Chief Executive, Ian Perry, who will be walking with his team nicknamed the ‘Harvest Honeyz’, said they had set a target of £1,500 to raise in sponsorship for the walk. He added: “We are really looking forward to joining together to offer support for one of the city’s most valuable organisations. We are thankful for the donations we have already been promised, which hopefully will go towards making life a little easier for the thousands of families affected by life-threatening illnesses.” To sponsor the Harvest team visit www.justgiving.com/harvesthoneyz
Hospice Fundraising Officer Wendy Bray said: “We hope that supporters throughout Manchester will sign up for our charity walk so we can raise more funds to provide free care for patients.”
The walk will start and finish at Manchester City Football Club’s ground at the City of Manchester Stadium, and follow a 10 km route through the city centre and back.
For more information on how to register for the Manchester Midnight Walk visit www.manchestermidnightwalk.org.uk or call 0161 498 3631.
Staff from St Ann’s Hospice are pictured putting their best foot forward in preparation for the Manchester Midnight Walk in aid of the charity on May 23. Staff from the Hospice’s finance department at Heald Green will be among hundreds of volunteers who have already signed up for the charity walk.
Finance Manager Jeanette Caddick said: “All the team in the Hospice Finance Department decided we would put our best foot forward and join in the fun of the Manchester Midnight Walk. We are all really looking forward to seeing what it is like to walk through the city streets along with all the late night revellers.”
Hospice Fundraising Officer Wendy Bray said: “We hope that our supporters throughout Stockport will sign up for the charity walk so we can raise more funds to provide free care for patients.”
The walk will start and finish at Manchester City Football Club’s ground at the City of Manchester Stadium, and follow a 10 km route through the city centre and back.
For more information on how to register for the Manchester Midnight Walk visit www.manchestermidnightwalk.org.uk or call 0161 498 3631.
Rugby heroes are in the line-up for a Sporting Dinner in aid of St Ann’s Hospice and hosted by the Captain of Mere Golf Club on Friday, May 2.
Sale Sharks’ top players including England Internationals Charlie Hodgeson and Mark Cueto; Scotland Captain Jason White; and Steve Hanley (pictured) will be among the star attractions at the dinner also featuring England international and former Wasps prop forward Jeff Probyn as guest speaker.
St Ann’s Fundraising Officer, Sarah Clifford, said: “With the chance of rubbing shoulders with some of the best rugby players in the land, this is an event that no sporting fan should miss.”
The dinner will also present the chance to acquire a race horse for a year.
For race horse owner and club captain Alan Baxter, a long time supporter of the Hospice, is donating the race horse for a whole year as the top prize in a charity auction.
Tickets for the Sporting Dinner, sponsored by George Davies Solicitors LLP in Manchester, as well as associate sponsors Sellick Partnership Recruitment Specialists and O2, are priced £50 each or £500 for a table of 10, and are available by contacting Sarah Clifford on 0161 498 3630 or email sclifford@sah.org.uk
Neighbours from Hilary Avenue in Heald Green will be donning mad hats when they set out on the Manchester Midnight Walk in aid of St Ann’s Hospice on May 23.
Hospice volunteer helper Anita Lee, who rallied her neighbours to join in the fun event, said: “We decided on the ‘Hilary Hatters’ to make sure our team stands out during the charity walk.”
She added: “To get in training, some of the men have decided they will make more regular walks to the pub, and the ladies will start walking to the shops more often.”
Hospice Fundraising Officer Wendy Bray said: “We hope that our supporters throughout Stockport will sign up for the charity walk so we can raise more funds to provide free care for patients.”
The walk will start and finish at Manchester City Football Club’s ground at the City of Manchester Stadium, and follow a 10 km route through the city centre and back.
For more information on how to register for the Manchester Midnight Walk visit www.manchestermidnightwalk.org.uk or call 0161 498 3631.
Prince Charles has praised a pioneering initiative by St Ann’s Hospice in helping patients from Manchester and Cheshire in their battle against cancer.
The Prince congratulated staff from the Hospice when they were declared UK Joint Runner Up in the prestigious Prince of Wales Foundation for Integrated Health Awards in London. He paid tribute in particular to Karen Livingstone, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, who leads the Fatigue Management service at the Hospice’s Neil Cliffe Cancer Care Centre based at Wythenshawe Hospital.
Speaking after the awards ceremony, Karen said: “We were presented with a certificate by His Royal Highness. I then had an opportunity to speak with the Prince later, when he asked more about the service and he seemed impressed by what we were doing. He said that he hoped this recognition would help us develop the service more in the future.” The ceremony was presented by TV gardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh.
Karen explained how she and her colleagues devised the centre’s award winning Fatigue Management Service to help patients who suffer from acute tiredness during and after treatment for cancer. The initiative encourages patients to manage their fatigue more effectively by combining conventional physiotherapy, occupational therapy and dietary advice with complementary therapies such as reflexology, relaxation and aromatherapy.
“This approach is very successful, and can be applied from the early stages of cancer or to a time when the disease may be more advanced,” Karen added. The service is available to patients referred to the Neil Cliffe Cancer Care Centre as well as Day Therapy patients at St Ann’s Hospice centres at Heald Green, near Cheadle, Stockport and Little Hulton in Salford.
St Ann’s Hospice latest charity shop in Mauldeth Road, Ladybarn, South Manchester, was officially opened by Lib-Deb MP for Manchester Withington, John Leech, on Monday, April 21.
This was the charity’s 11th shop selling donated goods to help fund free care for patients with life-threatening illnesses throughout Greater Manchester.
The new shop is located next door but one to the charity’s furniture store on Mauldeth Road, already popular with people looking for bargain buys to furnish their homes.
Mr Leech said: “I am delighted that St Ann’s have chosen to open a second shop in my constituency. I am sure it will be well supported, as it will be raising funds to help St Ann’s provide its vital service to the community.”
The new shop’s Manager, Nita Linton, said: “We hope the local community will support us in donating items for us to sell in our shop, and come and have a look around the many bargains we have on offer.” The charity is also looking for more volunteers to help keep the shop open six days a week.
The craze for ‘Retro’ and ‘Vintage’ fashions are creating a storm at St Ann’s Hospice charity shop in Altrincham.
Shop manager Alison Hynes said: “Over the past few months we seem to have built a reputation as the place to buy genuine ‘Retro’ fashions from the 70s and 80s, as well as ‘Vintage’ styles from the Sixties and earlier.
“We have had Vivienne Westwood dresses from the 80s, and Mary Quant from the Swinging Sixties, and if the donations in these styles continue, we will have to set aside a special ‘Retro’ and ‘Vintage’ area in the shop.”
Donations of Retro and Vinatage style clothes and fashions can be delivered
to any of St Ann’s charity shops throughout Greater Manchester.
GB Building Solutions’ staff is taking part in a 1,000 mile charity bike ride through Manchester and Stockport, partly in aid of St Ann’s Hospice. They will be travelling through the North of England over the next few days taking in all of the company’s building sites and offices.
Staff at the Manchester office, together with GB Building Solutions’ customers and supply chain throughout the North West, aims to raise at least £5,000 for Manchester charity, St Ann’s Hospice. Each leg of the journey will be undertaken by up to four riders with more than 100 members of staff taking part over the whole ride.
The charity ride will take in a circuitous ten mile route to the £11million, ten-storey high , Peel Court office building being developed just off Manchester City Centre; from there it is on to GB Building Solutions’ offices at The Embankment at Stockport. After leaving the office, the different teams will all cycle a minimum of ten miles each to five different sites that make up the £65million PFI scheme with Cheshire County Council to build over 430 extra care homes.
The final site before leaving the region will be the £13 million Northumberland Road apartments in Manchester, which the final team will leave on the 21st April on their way down to the West Midlands.
The North West portion of the ride will encompass ten projects on which GB Building Solutions is currently on site in the region and the company’s office. The cyclists will start at the £4million project to refurbish Crystal House in Preston on Monday and will cycle for 26 miles to the £5million Aintree Mortuary. A longer stretch on Tuesday sees a new team of cyclists ride for 31 miles to Emmanuel Church in Salford, followed by ten miles to the £25million Housing Investment Framework which is regenerating housing in the area.
The ride started at GB Building’s most northern site at Foundry House in Newcastle on the 1st April and will take in all of the company’s 31 sites and six offices. It will finally be completed at GB Building Solutions’ head office in Sunbury on the 15th May, with the directors: Martin Smout, Peter Stone and Mike Lethaby, cycling the final 28 mile leg of the journey.
Each office has organised sponsorship to go to a different hospice in its own area. GB Building Solutions hopes to raise a minimum of £30,000 providing at least £5,000 to each hospice. The charity bike ride is being supported by staff and GB Building Solutions’ supply chain, clients and consultants.
Martin Smout, Chairman and Chief Executive of GB Building Solutions, says, “We take our community responsibility very seriously. The bike ride is a fun and active way to get all of our staff and our clients involved while at the same time putting something back into the communities in which we work.”
St Ann’s Hospice is provides services free of charge to people with life threatening illnesses. It is one of the largest adult hospices in the UK, with 65 beds and cares for over 3,000 people each year; it aims to improve the quality of life of people living with life-threatening illnesses in Greater Manchester, while supporting their families and carers. St Ann’s needs to raise £16,000 every day through voluntary contribution to offer its wide range of services.
St Ann’s Hospice Fundraiser Dipti Lakhani said: “ We can only provide free care for our patients thanks to wonderful fundraising efforts like this by GB Building Solutions.”
Stockport based insurance broking solutions software house, CDL, have adopted St Ann’s Hospice as their charity of the year, and have signed up seven of their team to raise funds for the charity by running in the Manchester 10k race on May 18.
Their Director, Melissa Hogg, said: “Cancer has touched the lives of many people at the company and we wanted to support a local charity to help people with this terrible illness. We look forward to working with St. Ann's Hospice to raise funds for this worthy cause.”
As well as the 10k race, staff from CDL have already raised £1,668 for St Ann’s by staging a pub quiz in Stockport and auctioning off a number of laptop computers.
St Ann’s Fundraising Officer, Dipti Lakhani, said: “We look forward to working with CDL and hope it will encourage other firms to join in some our fundraising activities such as the Manchester Midnight Walk on May 23, which would be a great team building exercise for company employees.”
Students from Manchester Metropolitan University had a laugh raising £2,700 for St Ann’s Hospice when they arranged a line-up for stand-up comics for a charity show at the city’s Comedy Store in Whitworth Street.
Line up for the show included comedians Justin Moorhouse, Toby Hadoke and Luke Toulson.
Fundraiser Louise Kelly of St Ann’s said: “The students did a great job putting together a very professional and entertaining event, which was enjoyed by all and raised a fantastic amount of money for St Ann’s. We are delighted that the students chose to support our patients and we hope this will encourage more young people to do the same”. The students staged the show as part of their university course studies.
Two staff from Manchester accountants KPMG are setting off for the Himalayas in a mountain challenge in aid of St Ann’s Hospice. Kit Dickson and Justin Moody will leave on September 4 to climb Cho Oyu, the world’s sixth highest mountain.
Climbing the mountain, just 70 miles from Everest, has been a longstanding ambition for both Kit and Justin, and both are tying in their efforts to raise funds towards KPMG’s staff selected charity, Help the Hospices.
Cho Oyu, meaning Turquoise Goddess, sits on the border of Nepal and Tibet, and has slopes knifing through the air to reaching 8,201 metres high.
Kit said: “To succeed will require immense mental and physical endurance. It will also take teamwork of the highest order and not a small element of bloody mindedness and luck. If successful we will take about five weeks to complete the climb due to the need for your body to acclimatise to this extreme environment.”
He added: “The risks we are facing include avalanches, extreme cold, wind, the possibility of frostbite, and only having 35 percent of the oxygen we have at sea level. With this in mind, you can really begin to picture the scale of this challenge.”
Only a small group of people have the physical capability to climb the heights of Cho Oyu, but the challenge is even greater for Kit and Justin, who are aiming to reach the summit without supplemental oxygen.
They will be raising funds for St Ann’s Hospice in Manchester and Richard House Hospice in Canary Wharf. KPMG is backing their expedition and have agreed to match donations received up to £10.000. To sponsor the charity climb visit www.justgiving.com/kitdicksononchooyu
