The Headmaster of Stockport Grammar Junior School, Mr Tim Wheeler, has been awarded an MBE for services to charity and to education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
In addition to his work at SGJS, Mr Wheeler has been the Chair of the Little Princess Trust, since 2011. The charity provides real hair wigs to children and young people with hair loss, and funds vital research into childhood cancer.
King’s pupils, Alex and James Price, have kindly donated their mini Tesla Model S to the Countess of Chester Hospital, so that children can drive themselves for operations and investigations. The donation is part of a wider campaign that uses the generosity of Tesla Owners UK
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King’s School Sixth Form students have joined forces with Age UK’s local army of volunteers to empower older people in the community by teaching IT skills to the older generations, using skills that come as second nature to the younger mind but are more difficult to grasp as the years pass.
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King’s School Macclesfield pupils responded immediately to an appeal from the Children’s Adventure Farm Trust for extra Christmas presents. In less than a week, Senior pupils in King’s Girls’ Division collected 272 selection boxes to be handed out at CAFT’s rip-roaring Christmas parties for disadvantaged children
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On Sunday 2nd December, the annual Jingle Bell Jog will return to MediaCityUK in Salford for a day of Christmas fun for the whole family!
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Kids Collective out of School Clubs have raised a fantastic £977 for the ‘Children’s Adventure Farm Trust’, that provides a variety of programmes for terminally ill, disabled and disadvantaged children.
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Holly Myers, a 12 year-old school girl from Marple Bridge shaved 17 inches of her hair and donated it to the Little Princess Trust Charity whilst raising a staggering £5,000.
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A group of teachers and pupils from Hazel Grove High School are taking part in the Great Manchester Run on Sunday, 20 May 2018 to raise funds for Francis House Children’s Hospice.
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Imagine your child running through a field of dancing daffodils, peeping up through the golden heads and having a lovely time! Well, this Easter your imagination could become a reality.
For the third year running, Cheshire children’s photographer, Helen Rae, joins forces with Daffodil Walks near Northwich to help raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, the UK’s leading source of cancer care, by photographing happy children in the daffodils.
The windows of twenty shops and restaurants in and around Didsbury Village became the new homes for a band of giant knitted chicks as part of the ‘The Great Didsbury Easter Chick Hunt’ organised by Francis House Children’s Hospice.
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Twenty life-size knitted chicks will be on display in the windows of local businesses in Didsbury village from March 1. To spread the word about ‘The Great Didsbury Easter Chick Hunt’ staff from Francis House and local traders will be outside Didsbury Library on March 1, from midday, handing out maps and selling mini-knitted chicks.
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