You can order GIANT buckets or bags of premium quality pick n mix, filled with sweets of your choosing, to be delivered to your home this Christmas.
Once you’ve made your selection, you can add a custom festive message or picture to your bucket or bag of sweets, free of charge for that personal touch.
Sweet Cheeks, a business based here in Greater Manchester, is also joining in with the massive Black Friday discounts and is slashing prices on their website right now.
Through its easy to use website, you can choose from classic pick n mix sweets like fizzy cherries, cola bottles, giant strawberries, jelly snakes, fried eggs and sour dummies.
Credit: Sweet Cheeks
There’s also giant dolphins, gummy meerkats and jelly Minions up for grabs, as well as some festive Christmasthemed sweets. In fact, you can select your own custom mix from over 100 different varieties of sweets.
Having had masses of the sweets delivered to The Manc office, we can wholeheartedly vouch for them being absolutely delicious, with varieties of pick n mix we didn’t even know existed. They even had The Manc branding on the bags and buckets.
Stockport-based Sweet Cheeks stocks options to cater to vegans, vegetarians and people with gluten or dairy allergies too.
For Black Friday, which falls on 25 November this year, Sweet Cheeks will be offering a 25% discount, so you can get your Secret Santa gifts or stocking fillers sorted.
The family-run business was first launched during lockdown in 2020. Owner Donna McCafferty told The Manc it was ‘a way for people to send a sweet little customised message or picture on custom bags or buckets of sweets to help cheer people up when they were not allowed to meet up’.
She continued: “It really helped put a smile on people’s faces during the hard times and we have continued to do this for people since then.
“We do get quite a few very cheeky messages from time to time too! ‘I love you Chippy Tits’, ‘Sorry for being such a d*ck’, and ‘I love you more than fizzy cola bottles’ being some that stick in our minds.”
Sweet Cheeks pack all their orders fresh on the day of ordering, ready for delivery all over the UK – including free delivery in the SK6 postcode in Stockport.
You can browse the massive range of pick n mix sweets and place your order at www.sweetcheeks.store.
You can follow Sweet Cheeks on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok at @sweetcheekspicknmix.
Sweet Cheeks is also doing bespoke corporate orders for events.
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Hit theatre production set at a house party to visit Manchester on UK tour
Daisy Jackson
Alright then, 24 hour party people, we’ve found a theatre production you might like the sound of – it’s called The House Party, and it’s set in (you guessed it) a house party.
This smash hit production by pioneering theatre company Headlong is set to land at HOME in March as part of the arts venue’s 2025 theatre season.
It tells the tale of a wild 18th birthday party, where Christine is trying to pick up the pieces of her best friend, a newly-dumped Julie (who happens to be the birthday girl).
Themes of class, power and privilege are all explored with a raw intensity as the cast on stage plough through shots and dive head-first into a night that will change everything they know.
The House Party, which has received glowing reviews from previous showings, is filled with ‘privilege, desire and destruction’.
When it stops off in Manchester, its cast will include Bridgerton’s Sesley Hope as Christine, Synnøve Karlsen (Miss Austen, Last Night in Soho) as Julie, and Tom Lewis (Gentleman Jack, Patience) as Jon.
The ensemble of Frantic Assembly performers includes Ines Aresti, Oliver Baines, Cal Connor, Micah Corbin-Powell, Rachael Leonce, Jaheem Pinder and Jamie Randall.
The House Party is written by Laura Lomas and is a reimagining of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie for today’s generation.
It’s directed by Headlong’s artistic director Holly Race Roughan, who directed the Royal Shakespeare Company’s world premiere of David Edgar’s major new political play The New Real.
The House Party. Credit: Ikin YumThe production will be at HOME. Credit: Supplied
Movement direction will come from Frantic Assembly’s Scott Graham.
Prior to the UK tour of The House Party, Headlong celebrated its 50 year anniversary, including the hit production of A Raisin in the Sun which played nationwide.
The House Party will be at HOME in Manchester between 25 and 29 March, 2025 – you can get your tickets HERE.
Greater Manchester’s annual Repair Week is back to make you fall back in love with your stuff
Daisy Jackson
If you’re not a handy person, when something breaks, the temptation is often to abandon or bin it straight away.
But that’s just not how we’re gonna do it here in Greater Manchester any more, with the return of the annual Repair Week to help you learn valuable repair skills and save money at the same time.
Whether it’s tinkering with your bicycle, fixing up your small tech items, or having your furniture re-varnished and upcycled, there are so many places and people who are on a mission to help you fall back in love with your belongings.
There are even workshops to help you put flat-pack furniture together.
Taking place between 3 and 9 March, Repair Week will be the chance to learn skills, fix your stuff, gain repair confidence and find local fixers.
Events throughout the week (and beyond) will be hosted by community groups, businesses and plenty more.
You can sharpen knives, fix zips, and un-wobble chairs with a little hand from local repair heroes.
JillyGDesign Jewellery in Heaton Moor will fix up your sentimental and special jewellery items, while Rag Revival will help you turn unusable textiles into new creations with basic sewing skills.
There are repair cafes popping up all over Greater Manchester where you can take your belongings.
Greater Manchester’s annual Repair Week is back to make you fall back in love with your stuff. Credit: Supplied
Repair Week will highlight schemes like the Manchester Library of Things, where you can borrow the tools and equipment you need for those repair jobs at home.
During the week you’ll also be able to take a behind-the-scenes tour of the incredible Renew Hub, the UK’s biggest reuse hub, where donated items are brought back to life.
Similarly, you’ll be able to get inside the textile recycling centre run by homelessness charity Emmaus Bolton, where you can choose your own fabric from the scrap store and turn it into a very handy draught excluder to keep costs down and your heat in.
Recycle for Greater Manchester’s Repair Week will take place between 3 and 9 March, with workshops, events and resources to help you revive your belongings.
Daisy Jackson -
23rd November 2022 
