A brand new charity shop stocked full of sportswear will open its doors in Salford Shopping Centre at the end of this month.
Sports Traider will sell hugely-discounted branded sportswear with most items priced at £5 or less – featuring clothing from the likes of Regatta, Kickers, Tokyo Laundry and Speedo.
Owners say all purchases will have a direct and positive impact on Salford and surrounding communities – whilst opening up vital employment opportunities and investing in sports participation projects.
Sports Traider was set up as a charity 12 years ago by 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero award-winner Lance Haggith, with a mission to enable young people to fulfil their sporting potential, whatever their background or ability. Since then, the charity has provided over 168,000 hours of sports and life skills coaching whilst donating more than one million units of sportswear and equipment to children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Haggith started the charity after seeing the health benefits that sport provided to his own children and the positive impact on their social skills.
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Sports Traider will sell hugely-discounted branded sportswear, with most items priced at £5 or less / Credit: Facebook (Hanley Sports Traider)
“It started off in a youth centre,” Haggith explained.
“We were primarily looking after young carers so they could come to us and be children [and] I noticed children coming in without coats or appropriate sports footwear because they couldn’t afford them, so I started off by going into schools and asking if they had any unwanted equipment or training shoes and then I distributed it to children in need.
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“However, I needed more revenue to help more children, so I came up with Britain’s first charity sports shop.”
As well as providing funding for sports activities from sales at the charity shops, Sports Traider also champions inclusive employment in their stores by offering opportunities to ex- offenders and people with additional needs.
Sports Traider was set up as a charity 12 years ago, with a mission to enable young people to fulfil their sporting potential / Credit: Facebook (Sports Traider Runcorn)
“Kids that get into sport tend to grow up into more well-rounded people and Sports Traider wants to make sure there are opportunities for current kids in the Salford area,” Haggith added.
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“So help us to help your community.”
Sports Traider Salford will launch later this month, with an official opening date to be confirmed.
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Salford
Body of missing 15-year-old boy recovered from water at Salford country park
Emily Sergeant
The body of a missing 15-year-old boy has sadly been recovered from the water at a country park in Salford.
Officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were called to reports of a teenager getting in to difficulty in the water at Clifton Country Park in Salford at around 4:51pm this past Saturday (27 June).
Since then, emergency services – including partners from Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (GMFRS) and North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) – have been working together to locate the missing boy.
But despite their best efforts, a body was, unfortunately, located in the water yesterday (29 June).
The body was recovered from the water by specialists at North West Under Water Search and Marine Unit, GMP confirmed.
Formal identification is yet to take place, but police are supporting the family of the missing boy in the meantime.
“Saturday’s incident is truly heartbreaking,” commented Detective Inspector Dave Ogden, from the Salford CID.
“My thoughts remain with the family and loved ones of the young boy who has so tragically lost his life. While we are satisfied there are no suspicious circumstances, this incident is an incredibly upsetting reminder of the serious risks associated with open water.
“We understand people want to make the most of the warm weather, but we would urge everyone to stay safe and avoid entering reservoirs, rivers, canals or ponds.
“Please take care and enjoy the weather in a safe way.”
Featured Image – David Dixon (via Geograph)
Salford
Inside the Greggs outlet store where you can get a sausage roll for 55p
Daisy Jackson
There’s a Greggs Outlet store over in Salford where you can pick up the bakery chain’s top products for a vastly lower price than the high street.
We’re talking sausage rolls for just 55p, four-packs of jam doughnuts for £1.35, and filled baguettes for £1.50.
The items in store at the Greggs Outlet have all been saved from waste and redistributed to customers for a reduced price.
It could be that it’s come out the oven a bit wonky, not sold in a local Greggs shop, has been discontinued, or they’ve simply made too much.
Whatever the reason, you’re likely to find everything from yum yums and fresh bread to filled sandwiches and pastries.
Depending on what you choose to buy, customers can save more than 70% on what they’d paid in a typical high street Greggs bakery store.
Designed to provide ‘affordable food in areas of social deprivation’, a share of profits generated from Greggs Outlets is donated to the Greggs Foundation to distribute through the Greggs Foundation Community Grant Programme.
Inside the Greggs Outlet at Radclyffe Park, you can find steals like a four-pack of sausage rolls for £2.20, or 55p each – around a 60% discount.
There are also two-packs of Yum Yums for 80p (normally £1.70 each), big packs of fresh bread rolls for 30p, and four-packs of filled doughnuts for £2.
You can even pick up fresh sandwiches at Greggs OutletPacks of discounted sausage rollsThe shelves are stocked daily
Then in the fridges, you’ll find classic filled sandwiches sold at exceptional value, like a honey roast ham and egg roll for £1.50, a Mexican chicken flatbread for £1.50, a classic tuna sandwich for 80p, or a roast chicken mayo baguette for £1.50.
That’s all better than half price.
Greggs says on signs in-store: “We can offer you food at a reduced price because we may have made too much, it’s come out slightly misshapen, it’s been unsold at a local Greggs shop, it’s being discontinued or the weather has changed so we’ve over-ordered.
“Whatever the reason, you can be sure of one thing: all our food is tasty and fantastic value for money!”
Emily Sergeant -
10th August 2021 
