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A restaurant in Bramhall will be hosting a charitable Indian banquet dinner fundraiser in aid of St Ann’s Hospice. 

This is a collaboration between a St Ann’s supporter, the Heald Green Volunteer Fundraising Committee, and Bombay to Mumbai restaurant. 

The banquet dinner will take place at Bombay to Mumbai and will cost £30 per person. 

The event is to fundraise for the St Ann’s Hospice Build it Together appeal for the construction of a new hospice building in Heald Green. The appeal has now surpassed £1.5m of its £2m goal. 

The banquet dinner event will take place on March 4. Guests are advised to arrive at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. 

There will be an entertainment singer included in the price of the ticket. There will also be a raffle and an auction on the night. 

Community Fundraiser for St Ann’s Hospice, Julie Peters says the event will be a fantastic occasion. 

To purchase tickets please visit the St Ann’s Hospice website, here. 

Liam Saberton is running the Great Manchester Run in memory of his grandmother Sylvia and in an effort to raise funds for St Ann’s Hospice. 

This year St Ann’s is once again a charity partner for the Great Manchester Run and has a number of places for the 10k, half-marathon and marathon. 

Liam originally decided on running the marathon as he believes that setting himself goals helps with a better frame of mind. He hadn’t decided on running as part of #TeamStAnns until Sylvia was admitted to the hospice in November. 

He did not know that St Ann’s relies heavily on donations from the public to keep the doors open. 

“I was visiting one time shortly after she was admitted and as I was walking around I noticed in the reception there were all sorts of trinkets on sale and a donation box,” Liam said. 

Sylivia was admitted to St Ann’s in November. She was able to go home at the start of December but then she took a turn on Christmas Eve. 

“Fortunately St Ann’s were able to take her in. I was working on Christmas Eve. It got to about 3 o’clock that day and my dad said I needed to come see her. She wasn’t in the best of states. She was getting help and all sorts to make her more comfortable,” Liam said. 

“It was distressing to see her in that state. She got through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day but she passed away on January 4. Due to the care she got in St Ann’s, if I could do my bit to hopefully help another family out I’d be quite happy,” he added. 

Liam is now training for the Great Manchester Run and has set up a Just Giving page where he has already raised over £600 for St Ann’s Hospice. Click the link above to visit the page. 

If you are interested in joining #TeamStAnns for the Great Manchester Run there are still places in the 10k run and a few places remaining for the half marathon. You can sign up by clicking here.  

Jennifer and Alan Bradbury who live locally to St Ann’s raised a sum of money for the hospice by placing a collection bucket next to their stunning Christmas light display. 

Jennifer said her husband Alan puts up Christmas lights every year and this year they decided to put all the lights out in an effort to raise funds for the hospice. 

The bucket raised approximately £130 for St Ann’s Hospice. 

“We didn’t expect very much coming in,” Jennifer said. 

One thing that surprised Jennifer and Alan was the children on their way to and from school who stopped by the lights and donated small sums of money. 

“The little bits of money that people were putting in kept adding up,” she added. 

The husband and wife duo decided to put up Christmas lights during the festive season over the Covid pandemic in an effort to cheer people up. 

“We had one lady crying at our doorstep because she thought it was so beautiful. So Alan has put the lights up every year. 

“We wanted to give the money to St Ann’s because of all the great work we know the hospice is doing for the community,” she added. 

The money raised by Jennifer and Alan will go towards the new St Ann’s Hospice building, currently under construction as part of the St Ann’s Build it Together appeal. 

Two St Ann’s supporters recently went ‘down under’ to take on a vertigo-inducing challenge to raise funds for the hospice. 

Ally Elliot and Jeff Bor climbed the over 1,300 steps of Sydney Harbour Bridge. The duo have already raised over £2,000 ahead of their climb, you can donate via their Just Giving page, here.

The climb took between three and three and a half hours, with the summit being 134m above sea level. 

“The idea to climb Sydney Harbour Bridge began as a fabulous adventure and a desire to challenge ourselves now that we’re getting on a bit,” Ally said. 

Ally’s father was cared for at St Ann’s Hospice during the final six weeks of his life almost 20 years ago. They have been supporters of St Ann’s ever since. 

“Following his death, my twin sister, Sue and I joined a local fundraising team to help raise money for numerous projects at the hospice such as refurbishing the pharmacy and the family rooms and purchasing an ambulance. After several years our team unfortunately disbanded,” Ally said. 

Click through the Flickr feed below to see some astonishing photos taken during and after Ally and Jeff’s Sydney Harbour Bridge climb.

“When I started as a volunteer in the fundraising office at the hospice in Cheadle just a few weeks ago it really inspired me to raise funds once again. It started to give our bridge climb a much deeper purpose than a personal challenge for us. Every step we take on the bridge will be a tribute to the incredible work being done in support of the new hospice,” she added. 

The money raised by Ally and Jeff will go towards the Build it Together appeal for the construction of the new St Ann’s Hospice building in Cheadle. So far almost £1.5m has been raised by the community as the hospice nears its £2m goal.

A Greater Manchester garden centre have smashed a walking challenge they set out for staff in an attempt to raise funds for St Ann’s Hospice. 

Notcutts Woodford Park Garden Centre in Stockport set their staff a challenge to reach 10 million steps within a month and have exceeded that goal by hitting 15 million steps.  

In doing so, the garden centre raised £2,100 for the Build it Together appeal at St Ann’s Hospice. 

The current hospice building in Heald Green is 150 years old and through the Build It Together appeal St Ann’s hope to raise the final £2 million needed to build a new hospice next door to the current building. 

Community Fundraiser for St Ann’s Hospice, Greg Kelly thanked Notcutts Woodford Park Garden Centre for their fundraising efforts. 

Kerry Speight of Notcutts also commented: 

“We wanted to do a charity event for our local community as St Ann’s is not far from the garden centre. We agreed it would be a great charity with the new build going ahead. We wanted to do something to help the patients and families. We were delighted with our outcome smashing the 10 million steps. We actually did over 15 million collectively throughout the garden centre. It is such a good cause,” Kerry said. 

So far the St Ann’s Hospice Build it Together appeal has raised over £1.4m out of the £2m target all thanks to community efforts such as the Notcutts steps challenge. 

A piano concert in memory of Suzanne Karn who was cared for by St Ann’s Hospice has raised over £600.

Suzanne passed away in September from cancer at the age of 43, she was cared for in Little Hulton during her final weeks.

The concert, which featured a range of classical, jazz and popular piano music, was organised by Suzanne’s brother Jim Pendrill and was held at Cheadle Hulme School.

Together with Philip Underwood, Jim played a number of piano duets for two pianos, while they also both played individual pieces by composers including Bach, Chopin and Einaudi.

They were also joined on stage by Suzanne’s nephew and Royal Northern College of Music student Sam Pendrill who performed songs by Keane and Oasis.

St Ann’s ambassador and previously a doctor at the Hospice, Barbara Murray spoke at the event about the fundraising campaign for the St Ann’s New Hospice Appeal.

Jim said the turnout on the day was fantastic. 

“We were overwhelmed by the generosity of those who attended, helping us to raise this amazing amount. After Suzanne passed away our family wanted to give something back to St Ann’s for the wonderful care she received at Little Hulton, and Philip and I came up with the idea of performing the concert.  

“It was a very emotional but special day for Suzanne’s family. As well as those who attended on the day, I would also like to say a huge thank you to Cheadle Hulme School for their support in putting on the concert, and to Barbara for her very kind words on the day too.”