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Key Appointments at Prest Financial Planning Supports Growth

Stockport based Prest Financial Planning has boosted its operations with two significant new appointments. The firm of Chartered Financial Planners has taken on Simon Baggott as Practice and Operations Manager and David Kershaw as a Paraplanner to support its continued growth. Simon has worked in … [Read more...]

Beechwood Cancer Care Ladies Lunch

An Afternoon in Paris is the theme of this year's Beechwood Cancer Care Ladies Lunch. Based at Chelford Grove in Stockport, Beechwood is a charity offering support to those living with cancer and other life limiting illnesses, their relatives and carers. The Beechwood Annual Ladies Lunches are … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester Launches Hate Crime Awareness Week

As it is Hate Crime Awareness Week, the call to Greater Manchester people is STAND together against hatred and prejudice This year for Hate Crime Awareness Week, people from across Greater Manchester have shown their support to end hate crime by featuring in a video, reciting the Hate Crime … [Read more...]

Together Personal Finance appoints new Chairman

Together, one of the UK’s leading specialist mortgage and secured loan providers, has appointed Richard Gregory OBE as Chairman of the Group’s subsidiary, Together Personal Finance Limited. Richard replaces David Bennett who is stepping down after nearly nine years with Together. Richard brings … [Read more...]

Local: Stockport Accountants Acquired by UK Firm

A firm of Stockport accountants has been acquired by leading business advisory firm Baldwins to strengthen its regional footprint in the North West.  Booth Ainsworth, which was formed in 1959 and has been based on Greek Street in Stockport since 2002, is the latest professional services firm to … [Read more...]

Local: CDL achieves international Top Employer status

Stockport-based tech firm CDL has retained its Top Employers certification for the third year running, an official recognition that it is one of the best places to work in the UK.  The company, which was recently named in the FT Future 100 UK, employs almost 700 people at its campus on Kings Reach … [Read more...]

Local: Innovative Project for Stockport Children’s Services

Stockport Children's Services team is one from six local authorities who have been selected and secured funding to partner on an innovative change project with the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care.   The two project areas have a total budget of £2.4 million and Stockport Children’s … [Read more...]

Stockport Local Fund Helps Local Communities

Stockport Local Fund, the community fund that is supporting great ideas that make a difference in your neighbourhood, is now in its second round of funding Stockport Council have once again seen a wide range of applications from across communities in Stockport. Groups funded in the first round … [Read more...]

Regional: Transport for the North sets out £70 billion blueprint

Transport for the North has today set out an ambitious vision for the future of the North’s economy, unveiling draft proposals for northern infrastructure for the next 30 years. The Strategic Transport Plan (STP) and the Investment Programme would rebalance decades of underinvestment and transform … [Read more...]

Regional: Biggest Pay Increases are in the North West

The biggest pay increases in the UK (+7%) in 2019 are expected to be in the North West compared with any other region in the country for *professional salaries. This compares with London (+3%), Yorkshire (+3%), and the Midlands (+1%). The data comes from leading recruiter Robert Walters annual … [Read more...]

Regional: Manchester Airport Welcomes Year of the Pig

Manchester Airport is ready to celebrate the Year of the Pig as 260,000 passengers travelled to and from China in the last year.  As Chinese New Year beckons and we enter the Year of the Pig, Manchester Airport is celebrating another strong 12 months as passenger numbers to China grew 17%. With … [Read more...]

Local: Three Sixty build a brighter future

Fast-growing local construction company, Three Sixty, have offered exciting career progression opportunities to four of its employees. The local labourers from Three Sixty, part of the Stockport Homes Group, will be completing a roofing apprenticeship to become qualified workers, which have been … [Read more...]