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  • Fri
    24
    Jan
    2025
    Sun
    26
    Jan
    2025

    Big Garden Birdwatch 2025

    Registration for the Big Garden Birdwatch 2025 is now open!

    Big Garden Birdwatch is the largest garden wildlife survey in the world, and we’d love for you to be a part of it! Thousands of nature lovers will be counting birds from their gardens, balconies, parks and local green spaces over one weekend.

    It’s fun, free and will only take an hour, whenever it suits you, from Friday 24 – Sunday 26 January.

    Count me in

  • Tue
    04
    Mar
    2025

    Flip your way to victory . . .

    Macclesfield Market Place

    . . . and support your local NHS charity at this year’s Macclesfield Pancake Race

    The much-loved Macclesfield Pancake Race is back for 2025 with teams from businesses, schools, clubs and organisations across East Cheshire – all hoping to flip their way to victory and raise money for East Cheshire NHS Charity – your local NHS charity.

    The Shrove Tuesday event, which this year falls on Tuesday 4th March will see competitors sprinting up and down Mill Street while tossing pancakes in frying pans. The event starts at midday and registration is £30 for a team of four people and multiple teams per organisation are allowed – but encouraged.

    Lily Preston, East Cheshire NHS Charity Fundraising Manager, said: “The pancake race is a fantastic community event that unites local businesses and organisations to support our exceptional healthcare services.

    “Last year’s event was a tremendous success, and we’re excited to make this year’s race even bigger and better.

    “We encourage everyone to participate and help us raise vital funds while having a great time.”

    The charity is also looking for local businesses who are looking to partner with sponsorship opportunities in the event. For more information contact Lily.preston1@nhs.net.

    There will be lots of prizes up for offer, including an award for best fancy dress with local radio station Silk FM on hand to keep crowds entertained before, during and after the race.

    Money raised by East Cheshire NHS Charity helps support East Cheshire NHS Trust go the extra mile in providing funding for enhanced facilities, state-of-the-art medical equipment and all the added extras that make people’s experience at Macclesfield District General Hospital, Knutsford Community Hospital, Congleton War Memorial Hospital and within our community services the best it can be.

    To register a team please fill out an online form here or for more information, please email ecn-tr.ecnhscharity@nhs.net.

  • Thu
    10
    Jul
    2025
    Sun
    27
    Jul
    2025

    Buxton International Festival

    Buxton

    The award-winning Buxton International Festival is an annual celebration of world-class opera, music, books and jazz with over 160 events to choose from every summer.

    Here are five reasons to make Buxton your ‘go-to’ summer festival for 2025 (10-27 July).

     

    1. Buxton – the beautiful spa town sits in heart of Derbyshire’s Peak District, worth a visit in itself. All the festival’s events are within easy walking distance of each other.

     

    2. Operas Galore – In 2024, Buxton staged five new operas in four days and was nominated for an International Opera Award.  2025 sees a yet more impressive plans:

    • Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet, conducted by Adrian Kelly with the Orchestra of Opera North
    • A double bill of Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Taihiti and Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, a Buxton International Festival and Norwich Theatre production
    • Opera Zuid production of Mozart’s The Impresario
    • La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, a Vache Baroque production
    • Shorts – four brand new 20-minute operas by composers 

    Jasper Dommett, Martin Green and Carmel Smickersgill

     

    3. Jazz Weekender Tickets – Jazz Weekender tickets for just £175 offering 12 world-class gigs varying from jazz, blues, funk and Latin, plus an Oscar Peterson extravaganza. Stand-out artists include Ineza, Graham Clark Quartet, Emily Masser Quartet, Trio JDM, Baiana, Alan Barnes with an all-star band, Dean Stockdale Quartet, Emma Rawicz Quartet and Xhosa Cole Quartet.

     

    4. Books – 33 book talks including Diane Abbott MP, Baroness Lola Young, Petroc Trelawny, Ben Macintyre and Jonathan Sumption.

     

    5. Classical Music – World-class concerts every day from artists including Steven Hough, Imogen Cooper, Benjamin Grosvenor, Tallis Scholars, English Concert, Simon Keenlyside and Sarah Connolly.

     

    Box Office – Tel 01298 2072190 

     

    Booking office opens at 10am on Tuesday 15 April 2025

    Become a BIF Friend for Priority Booking, from just £36 per year.

    Website – http://buxtonfestival.co.uk