Have £250,000! Manchester charity to get disadvantaged young people into sport
A Manchester charity that encourages young people to get active has secured £250,000 of funding from Sport England.
Malawian students travel to Manchester to save country from hearing loss pandemic
Four Malawian students have come to Manchester to train as audiologists, thanks to the charity Sound Seekers.
MM’s top five… older (and wiser) people we’re proud to call Mancunian
At MM we decided we would spend International Older Person’s Day choosing our top five elderly Mancunians – after much debate, here’s our list!
‘Inspirational and humbling’: Manchester CEOs cycle across Britain raising £25k for The Christie’s new cancer centre
Ten Manchester businessmen have cycled from Land’s End to John O’Groats, raising over £25,000 for a new cancer care centre being built at The Christie Hospital.
‘Everyday things a problem’: Alzheimer’s sufferer sheds light on living with disease at Heaton Park Memory Walk
Seven thousand people turned out at Heaton Park to raise a suspected £180,000 for the Alzheimer’s Society at the weekend.
‘THIS is community’: Neville and Scholes ‘humbled’ by work of Wythenshawe charity
Gary Neville and Paul Scholes gave their support to the Wythenshawe Community Initiative, taking time out to chat with the centre’s staff and children.
Manchester chefs dish up meal for poverty project to ‘give people a purpose’
David Gale has worked as a senior chef at the Hilton Hotel, The Lawn Club in Spinningfields and Mughli in Northern Quarter, and will open his new restaurant Louie next year… but this lunchtime, he’s dishing up a meal in slightly different circumstances – on the first floor of a warehouse on Oldham Road.
‘Like growing up in reverse’: Son reveals family struggle with dad’s Alzheimer’s ahead of Manchester memory walk
Dementia and Alzheimer’s Syndrome are illnesses which most of us will come into contact with at some point in our lives.
The word is not enough: Amir Khan warns more Syrian refugee lives are at risk
Amir Khan has warned that more needs to be done to save the lives of those embroiled in the Syrian refugee crisis.
Going the ‘extra mile’: Salford swimmers’ in-jean-ious charitable splash
Salford’s Synchronised Swimming Club were doing their bit for charity this week as they donned swimming caps, goggles and JEANS for a practice to help raise awareness for Jeans for Genes Day.
Manchester urged to get their hearts pumping with night charity bike ride to Blackpool
A University of Manchester professor is urging the city’s cyclists to join in the Manchester to Blackpool Night Ride to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation on September 26.