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Lloyds No 1 Bar on the Theatre District has reached a landmark total for its bid to raise £10,000. The team has raised £6.5k so far through a number of collections and activities in aid of CLIC Sargent, the charity who cares for children with cancer. However, the Lloyds team need your help to meet their ultimate goal of £10k and become the top fundraiser out of all the Wetherspoons pubs.
Interactive white boards magically turned into working cash machines and giant cheques appeared as pupils from Knowles Junior School in Queensway, Bletchley gained skills for life as they learnt about the basics of banking, thanks to NatWest's MoneySense for Schools programme – the largest financial education programme in the UK.
Gather the kids this half term and get out to Airkix at Xscape, Milton Keynes and experience a UK adventure trip of a lifetime guaranteed to make you giggle. Fly with the exhilarating Airkix indoor skydiving, or for the more seasoned extreme seeker, get booked into Air-Sphere for that extra adrenalin rush. 
Hard working volunteers at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust were honoured last week when 17 were presented with Diamond Awards in recognition of over 10 years service. The group, who have totalled an incredible 500 years of volunteering for the hospital between them, have supported the Trust in all sorts of ways, giving between a few hours to whole days of their time every month.
A career with the England Deaf Rugby team could be on the cards for Milton Keynes College barbering student Joshua Sprules. The 18 year old from Bletchley has just completed a gruelling England training session at Stowe School, alongside some of the best deaf players in the country. Joshua, who plays for Bletchley Colts and MK College's own rugby squad, is pressing for a place in the national team after being scouted by Tony Stoyles, Director of England Deaf Rugby.
Despite it being a horrible wet day Milton Keynes ground out another win in the league. Slough started the game Milton Keynes ran the ball back to them, lost possession and Slough moved up field. They were immediately awarded a penalty to take the early lead. It took 20 minutes to pull off the next score with Slough running out of defence the home side won back the ball thanks to Dan Pearson, this week playing at 13 due to several team changes. 
The staff at TK Maxx cycled and ran 860 miles raising nearly £800 in aid of Sport Relief. The original target was to cover the 351 mile distance from Milton Keynes to Paris from the 19 – 21 March; however, the team broke this target going from Milton Keynes to Paris and back again over the period. TK Maxx is a major sponsor of Sport Relief after being involved in with Comic Relief for the past six years and raising over £6.3 million. 
Lawrence Dallaglio and his team have cycled from Italy to Scotland during the Six Nations, Christine Bleakley from The One Show is attempting to water-ski across the channel and Eddie Izzard ran 43 marathons in 51 days all in aid of Sport Relief. Now staff at TK Maxx in thecentre:mk are getting in the act by cycling and running the 351 miles from Milton Keynes to Paris from the 19 – 21 March all without leaving the store. 
Since February 2008, Amway's NUTRILITE division has sponsored Brazilian football superstar Ronaldinho in a ‘Goal By Goal' initiative, part of its global ‘One by One Campaign' to provide children all over the world with a chance to live a better life. Each time Ronaldhino scores in the Italian League, UEFA Cup or for the Brazilian national team, Amway donate $10,000 dollars to a charity aimed at helping children in the country where the game is played.
Holding a contest to guess how many sweets could be stuffed inside a blazer was just one of the bright ideas from young people to raise money for Willen Hospice. Year 8 students at The Milton Keynes Academy were so moved by an assembly given by staff from Willen Hospice that they decided to raise money to support its work in caring for seriously ill people.
Schools in and around Milton Keynes are joining a major new campaign to encourage pupils into the garden. The ‘Grow Your Own With Schools' campaign, spearheaded by Frosts Garden Centres, is looking for ‘Growing Gardeners' to take part in its first event; the Sunflower Challenge 2010. Already 10 schools from the area have opted into the campaign and will receive free sunflower seeds, soil, digging tools and a growing guide, as well as badges and car stickers. 
Ever keen to develop themselves further, Cadets from 207 (Cranfield) Squadron Air Training Corps (ATC) recently attended a First Aid Course. Joining forces with cadets and staff from 1003 (Leighton Buzzard) Sqn, 7 cadets, accompanied by 2 qualified staff, from 207 Sqn worked hard to complete the 3 day course, supported by St Johns Ambulance, to obtain their Young Lifesaver Plus award. 
Amway UK, one of the global leaders in direct selling, based in Caldecotte, has been announced MK Dons official ‘Healthy Living Partner' for the second consecutive year. Throughout the year, Amway provide the first team players nutrition and health products - including Nutrilite Daily, a multi - vitamin and mineral product, and Strive+, an isotonic energy drink for rehydration.
A talented young squad of teenage footballers from Milton Keynes College have been crowned league champions of the SESSA Men's Premier North League. The MK College Football Development Squad beat off the challenge of older university sides to win the Southern England Students Sports Association league by two points.
MK Dons fell to their 14th defeat of the season as they were beaten 1-0 by Yeovil Town. Shaun MacDonald's thunderbolt strike in the 23rd minute was enough to earn the Glovers their first ever win over the Dons, who are now nine points adrift from the League One play-offs.
thecentre:mk's new restaurant quarter, Destination Dining, is now fully let as Carluccio's and Yo Sushi take the remaining 9,000 sq ft. Following the lettings to Café Rouge and Nandos in the autumn last year, both Carluccios and Yo Sushi! have taken 4,500 sq ft units in thecentre:mk's new restaurant quarter, Destination Dining, on 25 year leases.
Local singer/musician Jon Kendall from Milton Keynes has made it to the regional final of the national music competition ‘Live and Unsigned'. ‘Live and Unsigned' is the largest national competition aimed at, bands, groups and solo artists all hoping to make it big in the music world. During the last three years, more than 30,000 acts have auditioned, so competition is tight! 
This week saw the Orange Multimedia store in Milton Keynes transform itself into a traditional cinema for its very own premiere. The Centre MK store showed off its high-tech facilities as it hosted a late-night premiere screening of box office hit, Adventureland. Luxurious cinema-style chairs, popcorn, red carpet, a customary curtain and even ushers created the unique atmosphere for a handful of competition winners and guests.
Climb Your Mountain, a Milton Keynes charity helping support people with depression, stress and anxiety, is celebrating the return of its Mount Kilimanjaro team who were successful in reaching the 5,895m summit last week. With temperatures down to -20C, the team endured severe weather conditions in a physically and mentally demanding six day trek on the Machame route.
SNO!zone sponsored snowboarder Zoe Gillings proved that she is one of the world's best with a thrilling Olympic run. The 24-year-old took part in the women's snowboard cross event at the Vancouver Games which sees snowboarders race down a demanding course packed with bumps, turns and jumps. After a fantastic qualifying run Zoe took an easy second place in the quarterfinals of the event which was held on Cypress Mountain, Vancouver...
