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Logan’s Challenge
Rugby legend and TV Strictly Come Dancing star Kenny Logan launches his ambitious ‘People’s Pentathlon’ for charity….with the backing of a team of celebrity pals, including Jodie Kidd, Gethin Jones, Julia Bradbury and fellow rugby great Roger Uttley. Kenny’s twin goal is to help raise Britain’s fitness levels while also raising vital funds for Sparks, the children’s medical research charity where he and his wife Gabby are co-presidents. Kenny’s ‘People’s Pentathlon’, which will be open to individual competitors and teams of 4, will combine classic challenge disciplines like running and cycling and an assault course with Krypton Factor-type mind challenges.
The full ‘Logan’s Challenge’ schedule is 26th September @ Gibside in Newcastle; 3rd October @ Coombre Park in Coventry; 10th October @ Black Country Park in London/Bucks; 17th October @ Heaton Park in Manchester; 24th October @ Strathclyde near Glasgow.
For Further information please call Lindsey Cape on 0207 799 2111 or e-mail at Lindsey@sparks.org.uk
Lonely Weirdos Club.
We are a very mixed bunch of people who, for whatever reason, are seeking new friends and social activities. We meet
every Saturday in the Nexus Cafe, in the Northern Quarter, at 1 O'clock (ish). We generally talk and just see what happens from there, for example sometimes we go book-shopping, to the cinema or to a museum, and sometimes we don't do anything much at all! People are attracted to the group because the eccentric name makes light of the situation they have found themselves in, and how it makes them feel, and it means we all meet on an equal footing. Everyone who comes to the LWC knows definitively they are not alone in finding socializing tough. Anyone is welcome. We are not a Dating group.
For more info please checkout our website at
http://lonelyweirdosclub.synthasite.com
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Designer, Cheadle Hulme (19/05/2009 at 15:35)
Organised by the Stockport and South Manchester Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale, this event will take place at Edgeley Park Football Ground, home of Sale Sharks Rugby Club and Stockport County.
With over a hundred beers, ciders and perries on sale, this promises to be an excellent and enormously entertaining Festival. Whether one comes for the opportunity to enjoy some of the United Kingdom’s finest cask conditioned beers, the music and food or just the lively and exciting atmosphere, it will not be disappointing.
This year’s Festival Special Beer will be brewed by Marble Brewery.
The Friday lunchtime session is free and there is a modest admission charge at the other sessions but all sessions are free to CAMRA members. Why not join and help to maintain and promote high standards of choice and quality and enjoy yourself at the same time. We are likely to see the 900th member joining the branch at the Festival.
To add to the pleasure, there will be live music:
Thursday: Evening 28th May 5.30 – 11.00 p.m. Curragh Sons,
Friday: 29th May, Lunchtime 11.30 – 3.30 p.m. Stockport Cerebral Palsy Society band The Prospectors supported by Drake Music.
Evening 5.30 – 11.00 p.m. Soul Bandits.
Saturday: 30th May 11.30 – 4.00 p.m. Pete Goode, Ye Old Vic Band, Yes Sir.
Evening 6.30 – 11.00 p.m. Casual Ties, Blue Blasters, The Words.
There will be a bar devoted to Ciders and Perries. These are not the tame and tasteless ciders that you buy in off licenses and supermarkets. At a time when a lot of our native apple and pear varieties are disappearing cider making is helping to preserve some varieties that might otherwise be lost.
This year CAMRA are supporting the Stockport Cerebral Palsy Society who will have a stall and will sell additional donated beers, not found elsewhere in the Festival.
The Stockport Pub Guide, Viaducts & Vaults 4, will be launched at the Festival.
For further information please contact or visit the festival website: www.stockportfestival.org.uk
ann-marie simpson (08/06/2009 at 19:05)
Many thanks
Ann-Marie
jacqueline smith (09/07/2009 at 19:40)
all in memory of a very special young boy ANDREW ALBERT RYAN who sadly died on 17th April 2009.
at St Johns Social CLub, Chequers Road, Chorlton, M21 9PY on SATURDAY 18TH JULY 2009
8 TILL LATE £3 donation pay on the door
Dave O'Neill (15/07/2009 at 21:47)
This has just started on Facebook but a website/blog is now live
The way it works is there are items being offered, if you would like to have one of the items all you need to do is offer something of higher value
Once swapping starts to slow down everything is sold with all proceeds going to the chosen charity
Read more at http://www.charity-swap.co.uk
If you are a facebook member please join the group and invite friends here is a link to the group
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=238769&id=552030981&comments=#/group.php?gid=96303228806
Thank you
paul holmes (15/10/2009 at 15:15)
CALLING ON ANY KINGO'S TO THE EGERTON ARMS, EGERTON ST, OLDHAM OL1 3QJ. ON FRIDAY 6TH NOV, SHOULD BE A GOOD NIGHT TO MEET OLD FRIENDS AND KEEP THE CAP BADGE GOING.
FOR ANY FURTHER INFO CONTACT ME ON: sherlock999@tiscali.co.uk
lily noble (16/10/2009 at 00:47)
lily noble (16/10/2009 at 21:43)
Whitebeck Court, Manchester (31/10/2009 at 18:47)
I am trying to make the site as interesting as possible and trying to track down archive images of the construction of the tower block in the late 1960s and also images and information on the rows and rows of prefab homes that used to be located here before they were demolished and the towers put there instead.
The Area I am specifically after is: Broadmoss Drive and Moorway Drive in Charleston Manchester, (M9 7HR), and the building Whitebeck Court.
Before Whitebeck Court was built the prefab homes were all on streets that no longer exist. They were called: Fairmead Close, Mossfield Close, Moorway, Broadmoss Drive, and Highgate Avenue. The only two that remain is Broadmoss Drive and the renamed Moorway Drive
Did anyone used to live in the prefabs?, do you have any images or stories about them and/or Whitebeck Court towe block?
The website is: www.whitebeckcourt.info
You can contact me though the comments page on the website link above.
PATRICK DOWLING (04/11/2009 at 13:42)
carol leach (12/11/2009 at 00:51)
Catherine Keen (13/11/2009 at 15:46)
We would like to talk to people who have been bereaved and have felt the continued presence of their loved one. The study involves either a face-to-face interview at a location convenient to you or an interview over the telephone. The findings of this study will hopefully inform Clinical Psychologists and other health professionals who are working with bereaved people.
If you have been bereaved in the last three years from losing someone you were close to and would like to take part in the study or would like to discuss any aspect of the study prior to deciding whether to participate, please make contact via the following email address or telephone number:
c.keen@lancaster.ac.uk or 07763 839095 (Craig Murray)
Catherine Keen, Craig Murray and Sheila Payne
School of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University
Ace Riley, outsidethebox (14/01/2010 at 13:33)
Lynn W (29/01/2010 at 12:47)
"The One in Three" (The Fight for Life) by Laura Walsh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01M3TaCSNHo&feature=channel
Censored, Stretford (21/02/2010 at 14:31)
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/bridgewater/
Rebecca Munton (22/02/2010 at 13:11)
If 850 people donate £2 each, we'll raise the £1700 we need.
Please visit http://www.justgiving.com/manchesteroxfambuyaclassroom to donate, and search 'Whitworth Park Classroom' on Facebook to show you've donated!
Thank you.
Tom Northey (01/03/2010 at 11:46)
Sign up to the 10k Bupa Great Manchester Run 2010, Sunday 16th May, and raise money for a great cause.
Springboard for Children is an education charity helping disadvantaged primary school children in Manchester who struggle to read and write.
To secure your Guaranteed Place contact: Tom Northey, tomnorthey@springboard.org.uk Tel: 0161 226 7903
Alicia Wilson (02/03/2010 at 09:05)
I am hoping to raise as much money as possible for Prostate Cancer Research and I need all the support I can get. I also need the generosity of everyone to help me in my challenge.
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men and more than 10,000 die in the UK every year as a direct result of the disease.
A man aged 50 has a 1 in 11 chance of being diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Last year more than 30,000 men in the UK were told they have prostate cancer. One of which was my father who is continuing to fight this horrid disease.
Please donate anything you can to help me raise money for this worthwhile and necessary research.
http://www.justgiving.com/Alicia-Wilson
Thank you
jane Charilaou (05/03/2010 at 19:42)
Arc Space Manchester are proud to announce a new course called Connect Yourself!
It’s about cutting your carbon footprint in new and funky ways that will help you to do your bit for the planet whilst meeting new people and learning about ethical arts and technologies.
We can show you how to tackle climate change in a positive ways by trying your hand at lots of cool activities, such as designing clothes and re-cycling computers! There are 12 sessions, every Wednesday afternoon from 11-2.30pm. We run an evening and weekend session too for those who can’t make it during the week. The course runs until May 24th and you can enrol at any time!
Its fun, its informal and its free to everybody. We are a community organisation so we welcome everybody. We even give you your own pen drive half-way through the course and provide free internet. Go on, become environmentally savvy. What are you waiting for?!
Contact us at arcspacemanchester@gmail.com or call in and see us at St Wilfs Church, Royce Rd, Hulme. Or you can call us on 07872 939216 and leave a message.
In partnership with Manchester City Council and The Manchester Carbon Innovation Fund.
jane Charilaou (05/03/2010 at 20:02)
How much do you really know about lowering your carbon Footprint? Everyone knows that it’s important – but it can all sound a bit confusing and daunting can’t it? Well…
Arc Space Manchester are proud to announce a new course called Connect Yourself!
It’s about cutting your carbon footprint in new and funky ways that will help you to do your bit for the planet whilst meeting new people and learning about ethical arts and technologies.
We can show you how to tackle climate change in a positive ways by trying your hand at lots of cool activities, such as designing clothes and re-cycling computers! There are 12 sessions, every Wednesday afternoon from 11-2.30pm. We run an evening and weekend session too for those who can’t make it during the week. The course runs until May 24th and you can enrol at any time!
Its fun, its informal and its free to everybody. We are a community organisation so we welcome everybody. We even give you your own pen drive half-way through the course and provide free internet. Go on, become environmentally savvy. What are you waiting for?!
Contact us at arcspacemanchester@gmail.com or call in and see us at St Wilfs Church, Royce Rd, Hulme. Or you can call us on 07872 939216 and leave a message.
In partnership with Manchester City Council and The Manchester Carbon Innovation Fund.
Frankie Holah (26/03/2010 at 15:16)
Variety Club Children's Charity has places for The Great Manchester Run 2010...Run with Team Variety and help to improve the lives of children who are sick, disabled and disadvantaged.
Sponsorship money of just £175 would provide a child with a fully adapted swing seat that helps to improve balance and communication....EVERY little HELPS!!
Bring Freedom, Independence and Hope in 2010 - JOIN TEAM VARIETY TODAY!!
Please contact Frankie on 0207 428 8118 or frankie@varietyclub.org.uk for more details.
Thank you
Alan Bowden (25/04/2010 at 07:26)