Wednesday 4 May 2011 ‘A Home For Alice’ Benefit Gig at Roadhouse, Newton St, Manchester. 7.30 pm £10 – All proceeds going to Shelter & The MustardTree.

Compared by Jake from the Blues Brothers, this is an evening of wonderful music with Mike Dignam; Anthony Fogg & James Jefferies; Butterfly Jam; Wolf Ghost (members formerly of Tramps and Horses), and the Beeky Chastards … wonderful musicians donating their time, Roadhouse have donated the venue, generous folk have contributed ads, flyers, ticket printing etc so that all proceeds will be split between two homeless charities: Shelter and The Mustard Tree Foundation (www.mustardtree.co.uk).  Tickets £10 and are available online now:http://www.wegottickets.com/event/116089

Helen Wilson has organised this event and tickets are also available from her: T: 01565 654 625, cheques to 28 Southfields, Knutsford WA16 8LF.  E:wilson8lf@btinternet.com

Retail Manager

The Mustard Tree is a Manchester based charity, whose mission is to ‘rebuild and improve the lives of the homeless and marginalised in Manchester’. Part of our operation includes a large warehouse based ‘charity shop’ that provides essential items for our clients as well as being a critical source of income for the charity.

We are looking for a Retail Manager who will be able to combine excellent customer and client service with developing and managing a successful enterprise. Ideally the candidate has significant retail experience and is comfortable working with people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The individual will need to develop our retail operations as well as managing and training a volunteer force in the running of the enterprise.

Salary: £17,500 per annum. 37.5 hours per week, Mon-Fri, with occasional Saturday and out of hours work required.

Closing date for applications is 6th May 2011.

For a job description and information pack please contact:

Janet Wong

Email: office@mustardtree.co.uk

The Mustard Tree,
110 Oldham Road,
Ancoats,
Manchester,
M4 6AG.

Tel: 0161 228 7331

www.mustardtree.co.uk

Below is a note from Martyn Maund of Icon who are sponsoring us this year.  Martyn and his team are doing a sponsored 30 mile walk in Snowdonia later in the year.  We are extremely grateful for all of Icon’s efforts and blisters on our behalf.

‘This is the bulk of the team training in the Lake District on Sun 5 Mar 2011. The main walk will be 30 miles in Snowdon on 17 June 2011.  As you look I am on the left  with the very smart polka dot hanky protecting my head from the sun!  We camped at Buttermere on the Saturday night then did a 5 hour training walk on the Sunday. This foto was taken high up on the ridge to the West of Lake Buttermere.  Very steep climb to get to the top then life improved as we ridgelined.  Talk about feeling my age!

We will be doing a longer training walk early May.   Where’s my personal trainer?’

Martyn has persuaded his friend Dean Copley to organise the walk and to train the team for which we are all very grateful.  Dean is pictured at the right hand side.

If you’d like to follow in Martyn and his team’s footsteps and do a sponsored activity for the Mustard Tree, please contact Lydia:

lydia@mustardtree.co.uk or 0161 2287331

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