We had the pleasure of being Charity of the Year at the 2019 Stockport Business Awards and we were there on Thursday evening (10th October) at the prestigious awards at the beautiful Stockport Town Hall. Nearly 400 people were in attendance at the black tie dinner to celebrate the success and achievements of the region’s […]
News from Supportability
Read the latest news about the what we’ve been getting up to and how we’ve been helping out in the community.
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Author Sue Stern’s first blog for Supportability
We are delighted to feature Sue Stern on our website, not only a writer, but also a mother to Vanessa – The Child Who Spoke With Her Eyes – here Sue will be giving us an insight into her life and experience as a mother to Vanessa, living with Cerebral Palsy during her short life. […]
Volunteer of the Year 2019
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that our Volunteer of Year 2019 is Vivien Heighway. Viv has voluntarily helped Supportability organise the annual Golf Day for the past 6 years. She provides support, guidance and very useful knowledge to help make it the success it is today. The tireless help and support we receive from our […]
Introducing Katie Holmes’s Blog
We’re absolutely delighted to feature Katie Holmes’s blog. Katie is 13 and was born with Cerebral Palsy. She writes an inspirational blog on Instagram about living with Cerebral Palsy. Over to you Katie… Hi everyone! So things have been going well since the whole… incident… but we aren’t going to talk about THAT today, we […]
£1,000 raised at Comedy Night
We raised just over £1,000 for our Comedy Night at The Heatons Sports Club with tickets sales and an exciting raffle which included a bottle of Veuve Clicquot! Thank you to all those who attended our second ever Comedy Night – we received lots of positive feedback. Cheshire’s Rob Rouse kicked off the evening with […]
2019 Golf Day Review
Stockport CP Society’s 26th Golf Day raises a record £16,000! More golfers turned out than ever before for our 26th Golf Day event on Friday 13th September and we are thrilled with the whopping £16,000 that the event raised. A record number of 36 teams of keen golfers tee’d off at Heaton Moor Golf Club […]
AMET Raises £4,000 For Stockport CP
AMET (Associated Electrical Traders Manchester) were hugely successful with their fundraising again in 2017 – so much so that we were delighted to receive a cheque for £4,000 from them recently! Supportability has benefitted from the Association’s annual Christmas lunch several times in recent years, receiving donations towards our leisure groups. We’re very pleased to […]
Big Lottery Funding comes to SCP Skills centre!
It was smiles all round at Supportability when we learnt that we had been awarded a grant of £9,588 to support music and relaxation activities at Granville House. The news was especially welcomed by our Fundraising Manager: Samantha Case who applied for the award as part of her work to find grant funding to support […]
Supportability’s very own Stefan Granger joins Wizard 5 runners to raise £1208 for Supportability!
The annual Wizard 5 Race took place on 12th July with 230 runners taking part to cover the 5 mile course through the woods, trails and paths around Alderley Edge. Despite the hot temperatures, the race was a big success raising £1,208 for local charity Supportability. Among the runners was Stefan Granger –a Support Worker […]
