Winstanley Primary School Wins Festive Food Monster Competition
Winstanley Primary School takes home the trophy in The Brick’s Festive Food Monster Competition. The Brick, launched its annual Christmas Hamper Donation campaign in November with the launch of the competition, challenging 9 primary schools across the borough to design and create festive food monsters, out of green wheelie bins, for a range of Wigan […]
Latics trio make special trip to The Brick Works
First team players Callum McManaman, Gary Roberts and Jamie Jones visited the Brick Works on Hodson Street in Wigan town centre before Christmas, to learn more about the Brick and to take part in activities with our service users, which included restoring furniture, woodwork, engraving and fixing bicycles. Jamie said: “It’s great that the club […]
Wigan Warriors visit The Brick
The npower Wigan Warriors Community Blitz returned for its second year this week, as 120 players, officials and staff volunteered 15 hours of their time to spread some community spirit in time for Christmas. The 20+ Wigan Warriors players, coaches and staff stayed with us until 3am and spent over three hours with The Brick’s […]
The Brick teams up with Cloud Perspective to solve Period Poverty in Wigan
Research conducted by Plan International states that one in ten girls miss out on education due to their periods. The Red Box Project aims to break down the stigma and taboo against period poverty and it is one of many which have been set up around the UK. Alice Coren, Reuse and Recycle Coordinator for […]
The Brick Launches the Christmas Food Monster Competition
The Brick has commenced its annual Christmas Hamper Donation campaign with the launch of a food monster competition involving nine primary schools across the borough. The primary schools designed and created festive food monsters for a range of Wigan businesses, where food and gifts will be collected to go into the Christmas Hampers. Each year […]
The Brick raises £42,000 at the ‘Brick by Brick’ Gala!
It was an emotional evening at the DW stadium when we hosted our first Brick by Brick Gala, to raise money to help us to buy our current premises, The Brickworks and managed to raise an amazing £42,000 in one night! The Gala was attended by many local businesses and supporters, including Wigan Athletic CEO […]
Wigan Athletic and The Brick partner for the second successive year
We are delighted to reveal that The Brick have teamed up with Wigan Athletic for a second season. Following a selection process, we will once again work closely with Latics throughout the 2018/19 season. This year our aim is to raise an incredible £100,000 to buy the Brick Works facility, on Hodson Street, near the […]
Cash challenge turns Wigan pupils into fortune hunters
Pupils at a Wigan special school were given an introduction to business as they turned fivers into fortunes to help homeless people. The Hope School put on an enterprise week where each team had to transform their modest start-up fund into as much money as possible in just five days. The business-savvy youngsters used an […]
Join Gabrielle and help end holiday hunger for school children this summer
Support our Holiday Hunger donation drive on Thursday 12th July and Friday 13th July, 12-6.30pm at Central Park, Montrose Avenue, Wigan to make sure children don’t go hungry during the summer holidays. 14.8% of children in the Wigan borough eligible for free school meals. That’s approximately 8243 children (based on most recent census information). The […]