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Home Instead Wigan’s Be a Santa Collection at Tesco

Wigan community pulled together to warm hearts at Christmas

Atherton Lunch Club

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A still from the video to Freezing This Christmas by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers

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With its own jetty, gym, and spa the Lake District house really is the stuff of dreams

Take a look inside the £4 million home you could win for just a tenner

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Volunteer asking Josh Simons questions on behalf of Age UK Wigan Borough's customer.

Tea with your MP

Cash prizes are on offer alongside a £4 million house

One week left to enter a special £1m Omaze bonus Christmas prize draw

Prizes of up to £500,000 are up for grabs

Omaze announces special Christmas giveaway with cash prizes to be won

Omaze Prize Draw: Win £4m lakeside home with jetty and spa in the Lake District

Omaze: Win £4m lakeside home with jetty and spa in the Lake District

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Turn over a new leaf this autumn with the Age UK shop in Leigh

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Bag a bargain with Wigan borough charity shop end of season sale this month

Bryonie Shaw, Kim Beardsmore and Bernardette Ashcroft reach Leigh to complete their sponsored dog walk last year

Charity holds sponsored walk across the borough

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Wigan borough charity shop has all the essentials for summer holidays

Members of Age UK Wigan Borough and Wigan and Leigh College students enjoyed afternoon tea

In pictures: Wigan students and seniors come together to enjoy afternoon tea

Bryonie Shaw, the chief executive officer for Age UK Wigan Borough

Charity sees increased demand for support

Donate a Coat to Age UK

Donate a Coat appeal
The borough’s Age UK shops are calling on locals to Donate a Coat as part of the charity’s Spread the Warmth campaign.
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Lisa Kidston, chief executive officer of Citizens Advice Wigan Borough

Partnership offering free, impartial advice to Wigan residents set to continue

Older people are being urged to get the flu jab

Nearly a quarter of older people not vaccinated against flu in Wigan

Age UK, in Leigh, is accepting unwanted Christmas gifts

Recycle unwanted Christmas gifts to Wigan borough charity shop to raise funds

Age UK in Leigh has a range of gift in store and proceeds will go towards providing support for those experiencing loneliness

Charity shops providing festive bargains to help raise funds

Bryonie Shaw, Kim Beardsmore and Bernardette Ashcroft reach Leigh as they complete their sponsored dog walk

Waggy tails galore as sponsored dog walk raises money for Wigan charity

NHS figures show 5,635 concerns of suspected abuse were made about adults with care and support needs in Wigan in the year to March – an increase from 4,690 the year before

Thousands of safeguarding concerns about vulnerable adults

Bryonie Shaw, chief executive of Age UK Wigan Borough, with her dogs

Wigan charity workers tackle eight-mile sponsored dog walk across the borough

Representatives of Citizens Advice, Age UK and Wigan Council at a pop-up event to make sure people are getting financial help

Pop-up events in Wigan offer financial advice in cost-of-living crisis

Lisa Kidston, chief executive officer of Citizens Advice Wigan Borough

Help on hand for Wigan residents eligible for support through pension credits

Makerfield MP Yvonne Fovargue

Yvonne Fovargue MP: Social care reforms are needed

Womble Tobermory spent the day at Age UK in Leigh as part of Volunteer's Week.

TV character helps out at Wigan borough charity shop as part of Volunteer's Week
A Wigan borough charity shop was treated to a visit from an iconic TV character as part of a week dedicated to the work of volunteers nationwide.
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Bryonie Shaw, chief executive for Age UK Wigan Borough

Wigan charity boss supports calls for a commissioner for older people

Age UK Wigan Borough's coronation tea party

Age UK Wigan Borough celebrates the coronation with a patriotic tea party

Of elderly Wigan people living alone, 294 (1.5 per cent) did not have central heating

Hundreds of elderly people living alone in Wigan have no central heating

Makerfield MP Yvonne Fovargue.

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Connecting Veterans: Age UK project helping Lancashire’s 50,000 veterans

Bryonie Shaw, the chief executive officer for Age UK Wigan Borough

Age UK supports households through cost-of-living crisis

As temperatures continue to plummet the NHS has issued advice to vulnerable people during the cold snap

NHS issues cold weather advice as temperatures plummet

People watch as workers place a giant bobble on top of a 23 foot high bobble hat in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the innocent Big Knit in partnership with Age UK (photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

First News: It's a supersize Bobble Hat

The winter fuel payment is a tax-free annual benefit paid to people over pension credit age to help them with their bills as temperatures drop.

Tens of thousands of older Wigan people received help to heat homes last winter

Put the plug in the bath before turning on the tap (photo: Unsplash)

Cost of Living Crisis: How to Save Water

Age UK is calling for more support for older people

Wigan charity helping older people backs calls for more financial support

From left: Brendan Hill, Tara Killen and Alex Lee from Wigan Council's Good Trader Scheme.

Wigan celebrates the International Day for Older People

WIGAN - 11-02-22 Wigan's honorary poet laureate Lilian Goulding, 92, has written a poem and sent it to the Queen, celebrating her platinum jubilee and was delighted to receive a letter back.

Wigan pensioner who sent jubilee poem to the Queen honours 'wonderful woman'

Iceland is giving pensioners £30 voucher to help them buy food - how to get one

Kim Beardsmore from Age UK Wigan Borough, right, with Kath Lewin, left, from Daisy Chain Stitches, the group meet every Tuesday afternoon at Clifton Street Community Centre, Poolstock, have been busy making little knitted hats to go on Innocent Smoothie bottles in partnership and raising funds for Age UK, the group have made about 600 so far.

Wigan tight knit group does a great job for charity

Iceland shoppers over the age of 60 will be able to make a 10% saving on their shopping (image: AFP/Getty Images)

Iceland to launch discount for shoppers over 60 as cost of living soars

Many young people rely on grandparents for emotional support, research found (photo: Adobe)

Mental Health Awareness Week: Let's hear it for the grandparents

Higher energy bills are stretching many family budgets to the limit (photo: adobe)

Cost of Living Campaign - Pensions up... but bills even higher

Shirley Southworth with her MBE

Royal appointment as founder of Wigan community group receives MBE

IN PICTURES: Silver Choir 10th Anniversary

Bryonie Shaw

Charity has a new boss at the helm to support Wigan's older people

Wigan Athletic Community Trust have been dropping off care packages

Wigan Athletic Community Trust combatting loneliness with new Christmas appeal

Walking football is available for over-50s

Walking football sessions available for over-50s

Millions of people at risk of losing free prescriptions in government shake-up

Immobility, loneliness and an inability to grieve as normal due to the Covid pandemic is leaving “deep physical and emotional scars” on a large proportion of the UK’s older population, a charity has said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Pandemic leaving ‘deep physical and emotional scars’ on large proportion of olde...

The Age UK Wigan Borough branch has launched a new walking football programme for older people (Credit: FA)

Chance to go out and meet new friends with borough walking football

A charity has warned that older drinkers who do not have smartphones to order food and drinks at pubs and restaurants are at risk of being discriminated against (Photo: Shutterstock)

Older people who do not have smartphones are ‘at risk of discrimination’ in pubs...

Older drinkers without smartphones at risk of discrimination in pubs

Older drinkers without smartphones ‘at risk of discrimination in pubs’

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