Who we support in the community
We support a number of charities that are operating in the Greater Manchester area on a day to day basis. Take a look below to see the amazing work they are doing in the local community.
Greater Manchester Food Poverty Alliance
Apex Self Storage is proud to support the Greater Manchester Food Poverty Alliance who are doing amazing work to eradicate food poverty in Greater Manchester and the surrounding areas.
“We convene and network organisations from public, private and VCSE sectors, and people with lived experience of poverty, to foster collaboration and innovation and to maximise the impact of efforts to address the underlying causes of poverty across Greater Manchester. We equip stakeholders with the knowledge they need to tackle poverty. We carry out research and advocate for changes in policy at a local and city-regional level and sometimes at a national level to address the structural and systematic causes of poverty.”
Moss Side Fire Station Boxing Club
Moss Side Fire Station Boxing Club was set up in 2008 by 3 operational firefighters who wanted to engage with the local community to raise aspirations and give them positive futures. Nigel Travis has continued to give his time to drive the club forward and enable the gym to continue as it does.
They are a boxing club run by local fire fighters and GMCFRS volunteers who give their own personal time and skills to help the community of the Moss Side and surrounding areas. Their commitment is to: “help develop the personal attributes of the young individuals within the community we serve to reflect the qualities and attributes we value as fire fighters. We aim to act as role models and mentors to help mould our members to be role models to the wider community.”
GREAT MANCHESTER HALF MARATHON
Our colleague Marie at our Apex Cheadle branch is fundraising for an amazing cause by running the Great Manchester Half Marathon on Sunday 28th May at 9.00am. Please feel free to donate towards the wonderful cause below, or you can even come along to cheer her on.
APEX SELF STORAGE LADIES TEAM ENTER RACE FOR LIFE
A team of ladies from Apex Self Storage entered the Race For Life event in Heaton Park in Manchester in July 2016. The eleven man (or should I say Lady team) consisted of Julie Bhamjee and Lisa Dawber from Apex Ardwick, Marie Cheatle and Terri Young (both from Apex Cheadle), Catherine Beswick (Apex Glossop), Joanne Summerfield (Apex Sport City), Kirsty Rigby and Carol Bosley (both from Apex Congleton), Becky Oliver and Michelle Croxall (both from Apex Hulme) and Carrol Ashton from Apex Head Office, even four week old Isabella took part. Race for life is organised by a women’s cancer charity and takes place in venues across the UK. Each girl is sponsored individually which raises a good deal of money for the cancer awareness charity.
CHARITY BOX CHALLENGE
Staff from Apex Radcliffe and Apex Hulme took on a charity box challenge to raise money for local charities. Donna Farr (Radcliffe) challenged Michelle Quinn (Hulme) to go out into the local neighbourhood dressed in a wardrobe box to see who could collect the most signatures and selfies. Apex Self Storage donated money to two local charities, The Frost Foundation and the Hideaway Youth Project for each signature and each selfie obtained.
A fun day was had by both girls and the two charities benefitted from the proceeds. Michelle managed to get the most signatures, with over 1000 people signing.
APEX SELF STORAGE MANAGER WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD
Kirsty Rigby, manager of Apex Self Storage in Congleton managed to beat off competition from over 2000 self storage centres across the UK and Europe, to win a 2016 European Self Storage association Manager of the year award.
The award was presented to Kirsty at the European Self Storage annual awards ceremony in Barcelona in October, by television presenter Mike Durden Smith, Rennie Schafer (SSA UK Chairman and Alisdair from the sponsors Radical Systems, all shown in the photograph.
The award is special to Kirsty and Apex Self Storage as it shows the commitment that we put in to the business to ensure that we serve our customers to the highest degree.
APEX SELF STORAGE FEED THE HOMELESS
In January 2017, seven members of staff from Apex Self Storage joined the Booth Centre, which is a charity for the homeless in Manchester. The seven all helped to prepare food, cook, serve and clean down afterwards. The eight members who took part were – Becky Oliver (Hulme), Steve Jones (Ardwick), Michelle Quinn(Ardwick), Marie Cheatle (Cheadle), Gail Hoolighan (Radcliffe), Carol Bosley (Congleton), Gary Cheetham (Warrington). Each one spoke of being humbled to be part of such an event and have all stated that they would like to do it again.
CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY
Christmas 2016 saw all of the staff in Apex including the General Manager participating in the annual Christmas Jumper Day and collecting funds for the Save The Children charity. This is the third time we have taken part in this worthwhile cause and even had a fancy dress day a couple of years ago to collect for the same charity.
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