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A Cheadle Hulme hair and beauty salon celebrated its fifth birthday by raising money for Seashell Trust.

Vibe Hair and Beauty Salon hosted a ladies evening with prosecco, canapés, shopping and beauty treatments and collected £663.

The staff popped over to visit the trust’s national centre of excellence also in Cheadle Hulme with their donation and met some of the students the money will help.

As all of Manchester is buzzing about the official start of the Bee in the City street sculpture trail, Seashell Trust is set to unveil a unique creation every art lover will want to get their hands on.

While the more than one hundred giant bees will be a feast for the eyes, many people will miss out on their beauty through disability.

We made sure we considered the needs of all Mancunians in its design of our ‘Shellbee’.

Cheadle housing association Equity Housing has donated a £5,000 multi-media smart table to help Seashell Trust's profoundly disabled students learn and play.

It will be an invaluable touchscreen tool for our assistive technologist Sarah Keddy to use with the young people who attend our Royal Manchester School.

Many have complex conditions including significant learning difficulties compounded by additional disabilities such as deafness, blindness, deafblindness, autism, physical disability and a number of rare syndromes.

More profoundly disabled children will now be able to enjoy specialist short breaks at Seashell Trust after a charity donated a wheelchair-accessible minibus.

The Stoller Charitable Trust, based in Oldham, made the grant for the new vehicle, which can accommodate two wheelchairs and seven seats including the driver. It will enable Seashell Trust to extend its short breaks offering to eligible Oldham families who are caring for children or young people with complex needs.  

A giant bee created by our students with complex needs will be unveiled this week, as part of one of the largest mass participation arts events ever held in the North West. 

After months of hard work, Seashell Trust’s ‘Shellbee’ will go proudly on display INSIDE Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, forming part of the ‘Bee in the City’ trail. The bee has been designed to encourage children and young people with sensory impairment to engage with an art work which lights up when approached, and buzzes and vibrates when touched.