Category: In the News
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Archie and pals win top award
The Nationwide Building Society Community & Heritage Volunteers of the Year Awards 2008 Archie Swift MBE and the team of 14 senior volunteers from SLC have won the top award as Heritage Volunteers of the Year for the North West. They will go forward to the national final in London in November. Club member, 15…
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Our new volunteers are off their trolleys!
A community initiative set up by our local Tesco Express store at Salford Quays has helped the club get in shape for the new season. Local store manager Nigel Phillips took up the challenge of local councillor and club volunteer Ray Mashiter to get out into the local community Nigel organised a team of managers…
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Star of “Love Actually” donates to SLC appeal
We have sent a Salford Lads’ Club T-shirt to thank Bill Nighy for his generous donation to our appeal. Bill was staring in a play at Salford’s Lowry Theatre about 18 months ago and heard about the club’s fundraising appeal. Bill Nighy memorably stared as Billy Mack in “Love Actually” and as Davy Jones in…
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Another ‘Charming Man’ visits the club!
‘This Charming Man’ is the favourite Smiths track of Conservative Party Leader David Cameron who toured the club yesterday. He wrote in our visitors’ book: “Inspirational club – thank you for all you do (and for providing such a great shrine for Smiths fans!)” Follow this link for an article and picture of his visit:…
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Morrissey Donates To Our Appeal
Morrissey’s donation to our £1,000,000 fundraising appeal made the front page headline of the Manchester Evening News today. Please follow the link below to see the whole story http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1029969_morrissey_gives_lads_20k
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The Secret Millionaire
The club featured in a Channel 4 programme called The Secret Millionaire earlier tonight. If you missed the programme, and live in the UK, you can view this online at www.channel4.com/ If you would like to find out more about the club, ask about volunteering, or arrange a visit, please contact us by email. If…
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Thieves Stop Restoration Work
We started work last week to make the roof of the concert hall and boxing gym watertight, using some of the £250,000 that we have raised as part of our £1,000,000 appeal. Unfortunately thieves got there before us and overnight they removed 2 long channels of lead from both sides of the main gym roof.…
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Salford Lads’ Club on BBC Radio 4
The Front Row Arts programme on Monday 14th November,featured an item about the club and interviews with Andy Rourke, Stephen Wright, Archie Swift, Leslie Holmes, Stephen Lord and Stephen Buckley. To hear the programme again go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/frontrow_mon
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BBC News, Salford Lads’ Club in The National Gallery
On the BBC news website yesterday was an item about Stephen Wright’s iconic photograph of The Smiths.It has been selected to be part of the collection in the National Portrait Gallery in London. More details on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4241096.stm To see pictures of The Smiths by Stephen Wright go to: www.smithsphotos.com