The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has revealed it has so far invested over £237 million into businesses across the North as it celebrates its fourth anniversary. To date, the fund has been involved in 1,068 deals that have also attracted a further £288 million of private investment … [Read more...]
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E.ON launches recruitment drive to deliver Green Homes in Greater Manchester
Energy firm, E.ON, has launched a recruitment campaign to support Greater Manchester Combined Authority's delivery of the Green Homes Grant scheme. E.ON welcomes the Government’s recently announced reallocation of funding to local authorities to deliver the Green Homes Grant. The firm is working … [Read more...]
Stockport businesses invited to free health and wellbeing webinar
Businesses in Stockport are invited to take part in a free webinar to discuss how they can support health and wellbeing in workplaces across Greater Manchester. Did you know that approximately one third of UK employees have a long-term health condition? And 42% of these individuals feel that … [Read more...]
Citizens Advice SORT reports 41% increase in demand over pandemic
The Citizens Advice SORT group, covering Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford, reported that it supported a record 45,000 clients over the phone since the start of the pandemic, a 41% increase on the previous year. The organisation's 80 staff and 77 volunteers, who have been working from home … [Read more...]
30th March: Coronavirus News Updates
UK NEWS & HEADLINES: UK STATISTICS Total UK Cases: 4,337,696 positive testsLatest UK daily figure: 4,654 new casesNumber in UK hospital: 4,560 (296 fewer than previous day)New deaths across UK: 23Total UK deaths: 126,615England Cases per 100,000: 42 per 100,000 (daily change: 1 fewer)R … [Read more...]
Government expands workplace testing programme to offer rapid home testing
The Government has announced that all employers with over ten workers can access home test kits as part of an expansion of the workplace coronavirus testing programme. Over 60,000 businesses have already registered for the scheme, which had previously been limited to businesses with 50 employees … [Read more...]
Business leaders urge government to stick to reopening timetable
Businesses leaders from the across the country have called on the Prime Minister to maintain its current timetable for reopening the economy. In a letter sent by Cities Restart, a business network aimed to ensuring the economic recovery of UK cities after the pandemic, the organisation urged the … [Read more...]
Cheadle and Bramhall Santander branches to shut in latest round of closures
High street bank Santander has announced that branches in Cheadle and Bramhall are among 111 sites marked for closure. The Cheadle branch will close at 4pm on 8th July 2021, followed by the Bramhall branch at 4pm on 5th August. The two closures are part of a scaling back of Santander's … [Read more...]
Hazel Grove apartment scheme secures planning approval
Plans to build an apartment scheme of 32 one- and two-bedroom homes in Hazel Grove has been approved by Stockport Council. Kirkland Developments proposed the development to repurpose the site of the former Woodman Inn pub on the A6 in Hazel Grove, which has been closed for over eight years. The … [Read more...]
Trafford College Group students spearhead ‘register-to-vote’ campaign
Equalities Council students from the Trafford and Stockport Colleges are heading up a new register-to-vote campaign ahead of Greater Manchester's local and mayoral elections on 6th May. Students Esha Mumtaz, a health and social care student at the College’s Stockport campus, Michael Jarkowski … [Read more...]
Supportability announces return of annual charity golf day
Stockport charity, Supportability, has confirmed that it will be hold its annual charity golf day once again this year on 9th July at Heaton Moor Golf Club. The golf day is one of the most important dates in Supportability's calendar, and is the charity's biggest fundraising event in any given … [Read more...]
29th March: Coronavirus News Updates
UK NEWS & HEADLINES: UK STATISTICS Total UK Cases: 4,333,042 positive testsLatest UK daily figure: 3,862new casesNumber in UK hospital: 4,560 (296 fewer than previous day)New deaths across UK: 19Total UK deaths: 126,592England Cases per 100,000: 43 per 100,000 (daily change: 1 fewer)R … [Read more...]
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