Following a long and dark winter of uncertainty, everyone is looking forward to better times ahead, with a late spring bonanza expected for golf. National…
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A team of zealous runners affiliated with Oswestry’s Business Networking Group, BNI Rhythm, took on a monumental running challenge over January to raise funds for…
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Cllr Duncan Kerr has been the Mayor of Oswestry since May 2020, it has been a hard time for many residents but a difficult time…
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Three runners from Rhydycroesau, Nick Blake, Alicia Shepherd and Tony Pepper have agreed to run 2021 miles, between them, this calendar year to raise money…
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People are being urged to sign up and represent a local charity at a major running event this summer. The Brynkinalt Running Festival is planned…
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A newbie runner is getting marathon fit in just six weeks to raise money for Hope House Children’s Hospice which supported his friends from Wrexham…
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Two teams of men and women will compete against each other in a challenge of speed and endurance to raise funds for Prostate Cancer UK…
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Carina Parkinson is a business owner in Oswestry and during the first lockdown, rediscovered her love of running (having completed the London Marathon in 2007…
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This February Hope House Children’s Hospices are challenging its supporters to complete 14 miles in 14 days in any way they want to. The virtual…
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More than a year since it held its last fundraising event where people could attend, Hope House Children’s Hospices is planning to hold its annual…
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The skills needed to help develop physical activity across a range of ages are being taught in a pair of short courses being launched by…
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Staff at a Shropshire law firm are going the extra mile for charity – 729 miles to be precise – with a virtual walking challenge.…
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Nearly 100 students, clients and staff from Shropshire’s Derwen College donned their festive best to join a Santa Dash to launch Derwen College’s festive fundraiser:…
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The Christmas season at Hope House Children’s Hospices will be a little different this year with the annual Santa Dash changing its format and going…
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Eleven remarkable runners who took part in the first ever virtual 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon in aid of The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt…
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Shropshire-based football star Josh Bailey, who has just earned his first professional contract with The New Saints FC, is celebrating a meaty new sponsorship deal.…
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An open water fundraising challenge has raised an incredible £8500 for League of Friends to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH). The…
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Oswestry, Whitchurch and Malpas Tae Kwon Do had four students, Cody Marshall, Carl Willmott, Dan Valentine and Emma Jupp achieve their black belts on Sunday 20th…
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Originally Jools Brennan from Oswestry was planning to raise funds for his trip to Nepal next year, donating a proportion of the funds raised to to…
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A golf day organised by Oswald’s Tree Foundation has raised £1400 for the League of Friends to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital…
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After being based at Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) in Gobowen since 1957, the Croesoswallt Archery Club, which were previously called the…
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Students and staff at Derwen College, in Shropshire, have been celebrating the success of their first ever virtual fundraising event, which has raised more than…
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A Shropshire student has her eyes firmly set on a showjumping career after taking first place in a national schools championship. Harriet Otter, 16, a…
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‘The National Para Equestrian Championships took place yesterday in the Castle arena at the NAF Five Star British Showjumping Championships held at Bolesworth. Once again,…
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Intrepid teams of Derwen College students, staff and supporters have signed up to a virtual walk which covers the length of Britain in just one…
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The latest BTEC Diploma results have been released and Ellesmere College students and teachers are celebrating with a 100% pass rate. Six Ellesmere College students…
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A caring Social Work student at Wrexham Glyndwr University has taken her voluntary work fundraising for charity online – with a week of social media…
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Oswestry’s Derwen College has been shortlisted for a prestigious building award for its innovative new hydrotherapy centre. The specialist further education college’s Bradbury Hydrotherapy Pool…
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Borderland Rotary, like everyone else has seen its fundraising events cancelled so David Kendal, the outgoing President, his wife Lyn and daughter Laura have been…
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In a coup for the school, Moreton Hall has recruited Carina Walsh to lead lacrosse development. With a number of Moreton’s lacrosse teams already in…
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The winners of Shropshire’s first ever ‘virtual’ primary school games have been revealed. The six-week event, organised by Shrewsbury-based active partnership Energize, was adapted for…
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An Oswestry pensioner has stepped up to raise funds for Derwen College Charity after embarking on her own sponsored walk after the college’s official walk…
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An exciting new online event celebrating the best of Shropshire and raising money for local good causes is taking place this summer. The Shropshire Virtual…
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Despite not being able to conduct Sports Day in the usual way due to the pandemic, The Marches School in Oswestry wanted to mark the…
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Back in 2019 when local businessman, Alan Lewis of Adrenaline Events, started to plan the first ever Welshpool 10k, no one could have anticipated what…
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Volunteers with The League of Friends at The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) are reaching out to their Disabled Swimming Club members.…
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An Oswestry tennis coach who set himself the goal of running 1,000 miles for Hope House Children’s Hospices has smashed his target despite injuries and…
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Although Hawkstone Park Golf Club’s Centenary celebrations have been somewhat curtailed by the Covid-19 crisis, husband and wife Captains, Stuart and Chris Apperley have set…
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Members of a county club that has raised more than £450,000 for Hope House Children’s Hospices are taking to two wheels this weekend in a…
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A Shropshire man paralysed in a climbing accident four years ago has launched a £3,000 fundraising campaign for a vital piece of equipment which he…
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Oswestry Otters ASC, Head Coach Timothy Hastie has embraced the Covid-19 locked down by creating online video contexts for his members but now wishes to…
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A group of lawyers and planning experts from Shropshire and North Wales have raised more than £2,000 for charity by completing a ‘Round Wales Walk’…
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After launching ShrewsFamily on 4th May Shrewsbury Town in the Community, along with Shrewsbury Town FC have made over 760 calls to the most vulnerable…
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A former Ellesmere College pupil, who owns and runs a successful international business, is offering its sixth form students the opportunity of an internship with…
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A sunny May morning with the trees in blossom and the Moreton Hall grounds in their full spring glory would ordinarily have provided the perfect…
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More than 40 children and adults have taken part in the national 2.6 Challenge for Hope House and Tŷ Gobaith Children’s Hospices, raising more than…
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A pair of teachers who ran a marathon around their six metre garden have helped raise thousands of pounds for the charity that supports staff…
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An Ellesmere College student has earned one of only 20 places on an international footballer’s mentoring programme after being chosen from more than 20,000 applicants.…
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Today saw Richard Edwards try something new for the members of Oswestry Golf Club. With golf in lockdown and members being taunted by the warmest…
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More than 30 staff from Derwen College, near Oswestry, are signed up to face a challenging charity climb up Snowdon. The group of intrepid walkers,…
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