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This category relates to all things to do with charities and their activities in Preston.

Fulwood woman takes on the Ration Challenge to support refugees

The Seasiders Centre Ration Challenge team. A Fulwood woman has taken on The Ration Challenge to raise money for refugees. Mary Roberts, a curriculum manager at The Seasiders Centre Blackpool, has been eating the equivalent of […]

4 years ago
Preston warehouse opens doors for prison-based recycling workshop

Preston warehouse opens doors for recycling charity A Preston charity which supports prisoners through providing workshops where offenders recycle electrical goods has opened a new workshop. When prisons were forced to close their doors to the public, […]

4 years ago
Preston cancer survivor walks miles to raise money for Rosemere

Preston mum-of-two and PR copy writer Jacqueline Ballard has been walking to raise money for charity When diagnosed with breast cancer last year, Preston mum of two and PR copywriter Jacqueline Ballard spent her month of daily radiotherapy sessions at Rosemere Cancer Centre planning her life […]

4 years ago
Over £80,000 has been awarded to help reoffenders in Lancashire

Over £80,000 of additional funding has been awarded to reducing reoffending and making communities safer by Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw. Charities, organisations and partners were again able […]

4 years ago
Advertisement Advertisement Preston schoolboy raises thousands for cancer charity

Summer might have meant staying put for Preston schoolboy Lewis Simpson, but that didn’t stop him from staying still. The sporty 12-year-old used his holiday from Kirkham Grammar School to […]

4 years ago
Eight year old Saara opens snack shop for Rosemere

Saara Ali A young girl from Fulwood, Saara Ali, has opened her snack shack to raise money for Rosemere Cancer Foundation. Together with mum Farzana, who is head of Religious Education at […]

4 years ago
In case you missed it: Five stories from Preston this week, September 7 to September 11

A583 Riversway and Watery Lane/Strand Road junction. Pic: Google maps A lot has happened in Preston over the last seven days. A school in Longridge saw a partial closure after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19, and a row […]

4 years ago
Ice lollies all round for Rosemere patients

Christine Ryan of Rosemere Centre with ice lollies Rosemere Cancer Foundation has set aside £300 for enough ice lollies for patients on the Ribblesdale Ward to last this year and next. The ward is Rosemere Cancer Centre’s in-patient […]

4 years ago
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