Seashell Trust students running their car wash. Tokens from Tesco will help by equipment

Seashell Trust is hoping to bag carwash cash from Tesco shoppers

09th March 2018

Seashell Trust students are hoping to bag shoppers' support for our community car wash

Seashell Trust is part of this month's Bags of Help scheme at six local Tesco stores including the Handforth Dean store.

Shoppers can back a specific charity with a blue token received at the checkout. The project that receives the most tokens will receive a grant of up to £4,000. The money comes from the sale of plastic bags.

Seashell Trust is planning to use the money raised for a community work skills project. 

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'Listen to Me' MSI Conference - Bookings are open

06th March 2018

Bookings for the ‘Listen to Me’ Multi-Sensory Impairment Conference are now open. Save £50 by booking your place at the event for just £95 before Thursday 29th March.

The ‘Listen to Me’ Conference is designed to equip you with innovative ideas and methods for supporting children and young people with MSI. #ListenMSI will explore the latest research and thinking in key areas including communicating effectively, managing behavioural issues and sensory regulation.

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Robin Windsor from Strictly Come Dancing will be judging the Seashell Trust ball

Seashell Trust are having a total ball - Strictly-style!

05th March 2018

We are having an absolute ball tearing up the template of an annual fundraising ball.

Our Strictly Come Dancing-style evening is bound to bring out the competitve streak in the business and high society worlds of Greater Manchester and Cheshire.

Eight business leaders are deep in training in advance of the dance-off in front of Strictly favourite Robin Windsor to decide who will lift the coveted Seashell Trust glitter ball on Saturday, April 28.

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Seashell Trust: Cyclists in road race

Cyclists: RideLondon 100 places on Team Seashell up for grabs

14th February 2018

Seashell Trust has managed to bag five places in the prestigious cycling Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 event this year.

The sold-out sportive, which attracts around 25,000 amateur riders to the start line each year, takes place on Sunday, July 29

Following in the tyre tracks of the heroes of the 2012 Games, the leg-busting 100-mile route on closed roads will start in the iconic Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and include the infamous Box Hill before finishing on The Mall.

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Seashell trust student at Bendrigg activity centre

Will you help our students to fly high at Bendrigg activity centre?

29th January 2018

Seashell Trust needs to raise £14,000 to send our students on an residential activity trip to the Lake District which could change their lives.

Scott Straughan, an infrastructure delivery manager, at Lloyds Banking in Wythenshawe, has already raised £1,000 for the trip after running the Great North Run in 2017, following as year of fundraising challenges he took on with his wife Justine in 2015 which raised £2,000.

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Seashell Trust students Jake Redfern and Antony Zichlarz, both age 9 at Shellstock

Gorvins Solicitors names Seashell Trust as its charity of year

25th January 2018

Seashell Trust has been chosen as charity of the year by Stockport law firm Gorvins Solicitors.

They will be raising money to give Seashell Trust students, like Jake Redfern and Antony Zichlarz pictured above enjoying the our summer festival, the best life possible.

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Stockport Council Planning Decision Statement

11th January 2018

At the meeting of Stockport Council’s Planning and Highways Committee on 11 January members voted 7 to 5 against the planning officials’ recommendation to approve.

Following the decision Mark Geraghty, Chief Executive of Seashell Trust, said:

”We are obviously very disappointed and somewhat surprised by the committee’s decision to go against the planning officers’ recommendation and refuse our application for the new school and campus at Seashell Trust.

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Sale Sharks with Seashell Trust student

Seashell students' scrum fun with Sale Sharks

18th December 2017

Premiership team Sale Sharks will be bringing rugby to Seashell Trust students.

The ten-week programme will be run by Sale Sharks Community Trust in early 2018.

It is part of ‘In the Pack’ programme tailored for people who have additional and special needs, both physical and learning impairments, and aims to encourage people to become more active in an inclusive way.

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Seashell Trust student Daniel Hall feeling the music through Royal College Manchester teacher Greg Davies' guitar watched by Halle's Chris Emerson

Hallé viola player helps students communicate through music

13th December 2017

A symphony orchestra viola player is using the power of music to help our students with complex disabilities communicate.

Hallé Orchestra viola player Chris Emerson is leading seven 'natural world' themed music sessions at Seashell Trust this term, thanks to PZ Cussons’ sponsorship of the Hallé’s education programme.

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Seashell Trust student Erin (13), Steven Gavin, Matthew Sudworth, Seashell Trust student Cayman (11) with the cheque.

Drivers fuel generous donation to change students' lives

11th December 2017

Drivers in Wilmslow are changing lives of our young disabled people with their spare change.

The M&S store at the BP garage in Alderley Road has been collecting coppers from its customers.

Deputy store manager Steven Gavin handed over a cheque for £2,100 to our students Erin and Cayman.

He said: “The support we have received from our customers has been amazing.  We are so proud to be able to support this wonderful local charity.”

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Artist's impression of new school

Seashell School Campus Recommended for Approval

05th December 2017

The plan to build a new school and campus at Seashell Trust for children and young people with special needs has been recommended for approval by planners.

Planning officials from Stockport Council have today published their detailed report on the application which will see a new £45m campus developed on the site at Stanley Road, Cheadle Hulme, and recommended that the development is approved.

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Hearing dog Chance and June Battye from Seashell Trust

Hero hearing dog Chance rescues collapsed woman

05th December 2017

They only stayed overnight by chance but Chance the hero hearing dog rescued a woman who had collapsed.

June Battye, British Sign Language teacher here at Seashell Trust, was visiting friends Joan Proctor and her husband Stephen in Congleton.

June, who is deaf, was accompanied by her hearing dog Chance, a six-year-old black miniature poodle.

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