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Cheshire East Council is a unitary authority, serving over 420,000 residents and 20,000 businesses. The council delivers a wide range of services including education, social care, planning, transport, and environmental health. The Cheshire East Plan 2025–29 sets out a bold vision: “Enabling prosperity and wellbeing for all in Cheshire East.” It outlines three strategic commitments: Unlocking prosperity for all – through inclusive economic growth, improved transport, lifelong learning, and a carbon-neutral future. Improving health and wellbeing – by reducing health inequalities, supporting independence, and fostering safe, thriving communities. Being an effective and enabling council – focused on financial sustainability, digital transformation, and collaborative governance. Aligned with the council’s transformation and improvement programme and financial strategy, the plan provides clear direction for residents, partners, and staff, ensuring Cheshire East continues to be a vibrant, inclusive, and forward-thinking place to live and work.

Many thousands of people benefit from the services provided by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. More than 291,000 live in the borough, and many more look to Stockport for employment or entertainment. The borough of Stockport stretches from the borders of the Peak District National Park to cosmopolitan Manchester, and is easily accessible by air, road, or rail making Stockport an ideal place to live, work and visit.

EVERYONE IN THE UK SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE. So we bring people together to overcome some of society’s most complex issues through the power of volunteering. We partner with communities to overcome adversity, tackling social isolation and loneliness, improving health, developing skills and opportunity and making sure young people can lead change. And because we’re a national charity, we do this at scale, sharing our expertise and building partnerships to make an even bigger impact. In 2020 we launched a new strategy – Volunteering Matters Strategy 2020. Based on the impact our volunteers and programmes have in communities across the UK, we are bringing people together through volunteering to build stronger communities so that everyone has an opportunity to thrive. Our place-based approach, which is shaped by local knowledge, energy and understanding, is designed to support people in their local communities to overcome the challenges they may face and to unlock their potential. We provide a platform for volunteers, young people, and communities to challenge existing structures and work with decision-makers to overcome barriers and inequalities. Across the Volunteering Matters family – including ProjectScotland, Get The Gen, Employee Volunteering and #iwill – we turn local knowledge and energy into action and progress, building stronger communities and a better future for all.