Didsbury-Magazine-Jun-Jul-2013
Didsbury-Magazine-Jun-Jul-2013
Didsbury-Magazine-Jun-Jul-2013
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LOCAL NEWS<br />
One million is the magic number<br />
Team members at Grosvenor G Casino <strong>Didsbury</strong> are celebrating after<br />
helping to raise a whopping £1million for Marie Curie Cancer Care.<br />
The partnership between the charity and the Rank Group, which<br />
owns Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca, began in January 2010 and<br />
saw the <strong>Didsbury</strong> casino take part in a host of different activities to<br />
raise much-needed funds. Some team members quite literally went<br />
the extra mile by undertaking a 1,000-mile bike ride from Aberdeen<br />
to Brighton, helping their casino raise £1,117 for Marie Curie to date.<br />
Other highlights include casinos arranging Be Gorgeous nights, poker<br />
nights and even playing ‘extreme poker’ in unusual locations.<br />
‘A Quid for a Kid’<br />
As part of Stress<br />
Awareness<br />
Month, Salfordbased<br />
children’s<br />
cancer research<br />
charity KidsCan<br />
is launching the stress-busting<br />
celebrity recipe e-book StarBites<br />
in partnership with renowned<br />
nutritional biochemist Jeannette<br />
Jackson and a team of ten top<br />
celebrities. Developed specifically<br />
to help parents of children with<br />
YOUR LOCAL<br />
CHEESE EMPORIUM<br />
&<br />
FINE FOOD STORE<br />
10 I JUNE/JULY <strong>2013</strong><br />
cancer, the star-studded recipe<br />
e-book offers a range of stressreducing<br />
alternatives to traditional<br />
recipes, which have been designed<br />
to help boost energy, reduce<br />
fatigue and support restful sleep.<br />
StarBites features ten wellknown<br />
faces, including Radio<br />
1 Breakfast Show host Nick<br />
Grimshaw and actress Catherine<br />
Tyldesley (who plays Eva Price in<br />
Coronation Street)<br />
Adoption Matters<br />
NW are highly<br />
commended<br />
www.cheesehamlet.co.uk<br />
Hale-based charity Adoption<br />
Matters North West (AMNW) celebrated a first this week after<br />
being ‘Highly Commended’ at the <strong>2013</strong> Social Impact Awards.<br />
The event, hosted by BBC presenter Andy Crane, celebrates<br />
and rewards charities and not-for-profit and social enterprise<br />
organisations for their outstanding contributions to local<br />
communities. AMNW was the runner-up in the ‘Large Charity<br />
of the Year’ category, and the first-ever runner-up to be ‘Highly<br />
Commended’. AMNW was honoured for its work across the north<br />
west in finding, preparing and supporting couples and individuals<br />
to adopt young people who can no longer live with their birth<br />
parents. Anybody interested in finding out more about Adoption<br />
Matters North West can visit www.adoptionmattersnw.org.<br />
Just the bill please<br />
While generous diners have<br />
been footing the bill, they<br />
have also helped to raise vital<br />
funds for North West Cancer<br />
Research (NWCR). Living<br />
Ventures Restaurants Ltd’s<br />
venues across the north west added £1 to every participating<br />
customer’s bill for a limited time and raised a total of £22,138.<br />
Anne Jackson, Chief Executive of NWCR, said: “Without<br />
fundraising efforts like this, NWCR would not be able to thrive<br />
and support the projects it does. Given the local incidence<br />
of cancer it is critical that that the north west remains at the<br />
forefront of cancer research. I cannot thank Tim and the team at<br />
Living Ventures enough for their support and for raising such a<br />
phenomenal amount of money.”<br />
www.cheesehamlet.co.uk 706 Wilmslow Rd, <strong>Didsbury</strong>, Manchester, M20 2DW Tel. 0161 4344781
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