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BABY BENJAMIN – ‘A PRISONER IN HIS OWN HOME’
August 2017
“You shouldn’t have to be a prisoner in your own home just because your child has a disability” says St Helens mum Laura Waterhouse. She was told by local health professionals that she would hav...
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DAILY PAIN FOR SIX-YEAR-OLD LYDIA
August 2017
Little Lydia Rankin could be facing spending most of her school summer holiday trapped at home in Pemberton, Wigan, sitting on her mum’s lap. The six-year-old has a rare chromosome disorder and she ...
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OLIVIA IS SCOOTING OFF TO A NEW LIFE AT UNIVERSITY, THANKS TO ‘FANTASTIC PLASTIC’
August 2017
A-grade student Olivia Dodd, from Rock Ferry in Birkenhead, is overcoming chronic pain and tiredness to take on the challenge of university life in September – thanks to the sale of thousands of pla...
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SPECIAL HELP SO ISLA CAN LEARN TO SIT UPRIGHT
July 2017
Little Isla Agnew has Cerebral Palsy, which affects her muscles, and needs special help to learn to sit upright and hold her head up. A partnership between Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children an...
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BRIGGS FUNDRAISING SETS ‘AMAZING’ AVA FREE
July 2017
A car seat that is too small – and therefore unsafe – for little Ava Galley means the family don’t go out unless they really need to. Not only that, but because the seat doesn’t support seven-...
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BARCLAYS VOLUNTEERS GET THEIR HANDS DIRTY
June 2017
Twenty members of the Barclays Management Team, volunteered their time to transform the woodland area at the Birches Specialist School in Didsbury, which has been supporting Newlife with fundraising e...
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MANCHESTER SUPPORTER GETS KNITTING TO SUPPORT NEWLIFE
June 2017
Ann Knowles, from Manchester, has been busy knitting a range of Knitted Nurses and has donated them to be sold, along with other knitted items from our supporters, at various fundraising events and cr...
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SPECIALIST SEATING HALVES JOURNEY TIMES FOR THREE-YEAR-OLD FINLEY
June 2017
Journey times have been more than halved for three-year-old Finley Monks and his family – thanks to provision of a specialist car seat. Finley, from the New Springs area of Wigan, has autistic spect...
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FABULOUS FUNDRAISER AT KLEENEZE HELP LOCAL CHILDREN RECEIVE VITAL DISABILITY EQUIPMENT
June 2017
Staff at Kleeneze & Express Gifts in Accrington have been putting the ‘fun’ into fundraising as they raised £5,179 to help children with disabilities and terminal illness in Lancashire. The h...
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SUPER SUPPORTERS JUMP TO IT FOR NEWLIFE
June 2017
Well done to the 11 super supporters from across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Staffordshire for jumping out of a plane at 10,000 feet at Tilstock Airfield in Shropshire and raising over £7k for...
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