Weekend Guide: The Gruffalo, Peppa Pig and Warwick Davis visit Manchester
There’s plenty to do with the kids in Manchester this weekend, so MM gives you the lowdown on some of the best options.
‘Difference between life and death’: Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital launch appeal for equipment to revolutionise brain surgery
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital has launched an appeal to secure a new scanning suite that will revolutionise brain surgery at the hospital.
The colour and the glory: Help City in the Community give Manchester’s kids a boost this Mother’s Day
City in the Community has launched its first all blue colour run to help give 50,000 Manchester kids a better shot at life this year.
‘Power of poetry’: Lemn Sissay aims to inspire Retrak’s street children mission
Renowned poet Lemn Sissay MBE has enough African spirit in him to encourage Retrak in completing their ultimate goal of a world without street children.
‘It could have been my kids’: Mother of four to travel to Calais to assist migrants
After watching the news and reading stories of the desperate migrant situation in Calais, a Mobberley teacher and mother of four has decided to join the volunteer movement there.
‘I don’t wear make-up so I’m not scary’: Meet the magical Manchester clown who ‘fell into’ children’s entertainment
There can’t be many jobs that can inspire joy in most of the people they meet, but wide-eyed terror in others.
People of Manchester invited to celebrate all things Indian with week of charity events
A week of Indian cultural events being held to raise money for charity will begin in Manchester on Monday.
‘Wonderful’: Bolton nursery jumps from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ in just four months
A Bolton preschool has turned itself around in record time, jumping from an Ofsted rating of ‘Inadequate’ to ‘Good’ in just four months.
‘Break free and aim higher’: Manchester school for BME kids aims combat trend of ‘settling for mediocrity’
A group of Manchester teachers and professionals are raising money to launch a school for black minority ethnic and under-privileged children.
Tameside nursery’s play area branded ‘unsafe’ and kids’ wellbeing at ‘significant’ risk
A Tameside nursery’s outdoor play area is so dangerous that the welfare and safety of the tots is at ‘significant’ risk, according to Ofsted after an inspection last month.
‘Get kids in the kitchen’: Two Manchester children in final to be UK’s best mini-chef
Two budding Greater Manchester chefs have impressed celebrity Irish cook, Paul Rankin, on route to the final of his competition to crown the UK’s best mini-chef.