Greenbank has announced it will participate in Purple Tuesday 2019, taking place on 12 November. Purple Tuesday promotes the £2.25 trillion* global spending power of disabled people and their families and calls on all organisations to make changes to improve the customer experience for disabled people. Greenbank has a key focus on helping people with…
It was great to welcome the Cash for Kids team – Simmo, Alison, Katie, alongside Paralympian Jamie Burdekin, who dropped in to Greenbank Sports Academy for a game of power hockey. The novice team were thrashed 22 – 3 but everyone had a great time sampling the sport that has been developed at Greenbank for…
We are delighted to have secured funding from Big Lottery for our 3 year Empower Project (due to start May 2018), which will support up to 3000 disabled people to achieve improved health and fitness. The project will take a holistic approach to supporting and empowering disabled people to take full advantage of what Greenbank…
Greenbank’s 34th AGM took place on 5th March 2018 to report on the charity’s performance during the year from 1st August 2016 to 31st July 2017. Council of management chair, Alan Irving presided the meeting in the absence of Greenbank’s president, Lady Angela Morgan, who sent her apologies. This was the first AGM for Greenbank’s…
The achievements of Greenbank founder and Chief Executive, over a career that lasted more than 30 years, were celebrated at a ‘This is your life’ style event held at Greenbank on 5th March. Gerry founded the charity in 1983 and has spent a life time dedicated to improving opportunities for disabled people on Merseyside, particularly…
A big thank you to Andy, Ian and Phil, from Essex Hi Wire UK, who called in to the Sports Academy recently to drop off a cheque for £170 to support our work. Their generosity is really appreciated. The Huyton based company only has 12 employees and they save all year, so that they can…
Thanks to everyone that supported this year’s Christmas Raffle and congratulations to the winners listed: Ticket Number Winner Prize 240 Mark Bradley Afternoon Tea @ London Carriage Works 471 Joel Murphy Breakout Liverpool Tickets 419 Libby Kane Family Pass for Knowsley Safari Park 245 Mark Bradley Her Benny Tickets @ Royal Court 094 Mary B…
Staff at Deloitte’s Liverpool office gave Santa a helping hand at our recent Christmas Party, by donating gifts for all of the children that attended. They bought more than fifty great gifts for Santa and his elf to distribute, much to the delight of everyone there. Party organiser James Dixon commented: “Everyone at the party…
It’s that time of year again when we have a competition to design our Christmas Card to send out to our customers, supporters, colleagues and friends. We have an exciting change this year too – your design will be available online for anyone to send to their family and friends at the same time as…
Brian Webster is a Senior Manager at Deloitte who also loves to cycle, so when the opportunity came up to take part in the Deloitte Ride Across Britain – a cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats, he jumped at the chance. In accepting the place, he made a commitment to fundraise for Greenbank. …