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You still have time to enter Forever Manchester’s ‘Magical Christmas Tombola’ to win £2,000

The festive draw aims to raise money to support community activity across Greater Manchester.

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant - 7th December 2020
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Forever Manchester’s Magical Christmas Cash & Prize Tombola draw is coming up at the end of this week and you still have a few days left to get your entries in.

And the grand prize this year is like never before.

Captain Manchester’s Magical Tombola is one of Forever Manchester’s main regular fundraising activities, aiming to raise money to support community activity across Greater Manchester, and has already seen a total of 564 community groups throughout the region benefitting from £2,594,863 of support from Forever Manchester’s Community Support Fund.

Support is needed more than ever this Christmas too after what has been a challenging year, and Forever Manchester hopes that the public will “continue to help us by buying tombola tickets during this difficult time”.

The draw for this month’s extra-special festive edition of Captain Manchester’s Magical Tombola – which is sponsored by ZenOffice – will take place on Friday 11th December and the charity is certainly going big for 2020 when it comes to prizes.

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Captain Manchester has quadrupled the top cash prize and is giving away £2,000.

As well as that impressive sum – which will be paid directly to the lucky winner’s bank account just in time for Christmas, to spend wherever and whenever they like – he’s also throwing in lots more top Manchester prizes up for grabs too.

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These include:

  • One night’s stay at Stock Exchange Hotel for two (inclusive of breakfast).
  • A SwiftyZERO Scooter.
  • 12-month membership at new boutique gym Blok.
  • Overnight stay at Kimpton Clocktower Hotel for two (including breakfast).
  • One week-night stay on boutique narrowboat – Moonshadow – including complimentary bottle of wine or prosecco.
  • 12-month FREE subscription to The Shirt Society.
  • A lady’s cut & colour and gent’s cut at by ATB.
  • £100 voucher to spend at Careaux.
  • Exclusive framed ‘This Is The Place’ print signed by Trevor Johnson and Tony Walsh.

More information about all of the prizes can be found here.

Forever Manchester

The deadline to enter Forever Manchester’s Magical Christmas Cash & Prize Tombola is 12pm on Thursday 10th December.

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You must be over 18 to enter.

It costs just £5 to enter one ticket – with all proceeds going to Forever Manchester to fund and support community activity across Greater Manchester – but you are able to purchase more than one ticket if you’re keen to increase your chances of winning.

All you’ll need to do is read the Terms and Conditions, click the ‘BUY A TOMBOLA TICKET’ button and fill out the form, then wait patiently with everything crossed for the draw at the end of the week.

You will then receive a notification via email that your entry has been submitted.

Forever Manchester will then contact you to acknowledge receipt of your payment, and contact you again after the draw to let you know if you’ve been lucky or not.

Visit the Forever Manchester website here to get your entries in.

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Home Bargains has announced a special two-day closure of all UK stores

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Home Bargains has, once again, announced it’ll be closing all its UK stores on both Boxing Day and New Year’s Day this year.

And it’s to make sure staff get a ‘well deserved break’.

After what has been yet another busy year for the retail industry, many workers have been left feeling like they could do with a little extra time off, which is why Home Bargains is following on with what has become a now-annual tradition by shutting up shop on two bank holidays.

All of our stores will be closing for Boxing Day & New Years Day.

Announcing the move in a post on social media, the discount retailer confirmed: “All of our stores will be closing for Boxing Day and New Years Day. We would like to thank all our colleagues for how hard you have worked this past year, and want you to relax and enjoy the Christmas break with your loved ones.”

Of course, this isn’t the first time the retailer has kept its doors shut on bank holidays.

Many shoppers will recall it has made the same decision to give hardworking staff a break every year since 2019.

Explaining a little more about the decision taken to close all its stores, Home Bargains said: “As a family-run business, we know the importance of being together at Christmas with those we care about most, now more than ever.

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“This is our way of saying thank you to our colleagues for their continued hard work and dedication.”

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Two Greggs in Manchester will be serving their breakfast menu in the evening next week

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Who says breakfast has to end at 11am?

In news that’s set to be music to the ears of breakfast lovers in Manchester, Greggs is giving them exactly what they want.

We all know that brunch is a ‘thing’ by now, so now it’s time for brinner to make a name for itself instead, as Greggs has teamed up with Heinz to bring its much-loved breakfast menu back for tea time, kicking off from 4pm onwards.

The move comes as a new survey has found that the majority of Mancs (69%) admit to enjoying eating breakfast food in the evening, saying it’s ‘convenient and comforting’ – even ranking breakfast as a ‘more important’ meal than tea, as well (38% vs 36%).

Two Greggs in Manchester will be serving their breakfast menu in the evening next week / Credit: Greggs (Supplied)

Greggs says it has ‘lost count’ of the amount of customers that have tried to order breakfast items after the usual cut-off time, especially in Greater Manchester.

But luckily for those breakfast-loving Mancs, they can finally get their favourite breakfast and sauce pairing long after the morning rush is over next… but only at two Greggs branches, and only for a very limited time.

On Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 October, the Heinz x Greggs Brinner collab will be available at Greggs St Mary’s Gate and Greggs Oxford Road, from 4-7pm only.

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“We’ve lost count of the number of customers who have tried their luck ordering breakfast after 11am, so when Heinz came to us with the idea of making Brinner a reality, it felt like the perfect excuse to give the people what they want,” explained Zoe Harris, who is the Customer Director at Greggs.

“And let’s be honest, a Greggs Bacon Roll just wouldn’t be the same without a squeeze of Heinz Tomato Ketchup.”

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