Chester Handbooks

20/12/2025

This month's competition is courtesy of the fab team at The Ice Cream Farm and it's a BIG ONE! 🍦

💥𝗔 𝟲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦 𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟭𝟬 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝘀! 💥

Enter online here https://chesterhandbooks.co.uk/competitions/ or email [email protected] with your name, phone and address.

Good luck!

Terms and conditions apply. Ends on December 31st 2025. Winner will be contacted directly by us.

19/12/2025

19/12/2025

What a lovely testimonial to read today on our final day in the office from Vicars Cross Community Centre! 😍

If you want to promote your business or event using our in-house graphic designer get in touch. We can design, print AND distribute for you!

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19/12/2025

Proof that what we do really works and really generates new customers for hardworking local businesses! Here's to an equally busy 2026 A 2 Z Flatpack Services! 🙌

19/12/2025

Our last editions went to print last week and today our team are in the office until 12pm. We'll be back in on 5th January from 9am to start 2026!

Wishing our customers and readers a wonderful Christmas and New Year! ⭐

18/12/2025

🎄Behind the Scenes at the Christmas Toy Appeal🎄
From donations to delivery…

WOW! — what a few weeks it’s been.
We’ve now completed the huge task of counting, sorting and registering the thousands upon thousands of generous gifts donated to this year’s Christmas Toy Appeal😊. While the donation deadline has passed, the work is very much still ongoing 💪.

Right now, the elves at KidsBank are working flat-out in Santa’s Grotto (the fulfilment centre), carefully preparing all the gifts to ensure they reach children and families in need in time for Christmas.

Some of you left your names, others chose to donate anonymously — but every single one of you is helping change lives this Christmas. There are simply too many people to thank.
We couldn’t possibly thank everyone, BUT we’re going to try....

❤️ FIRST & FOREMOST
to the people of Ellesmere Port and the surrounding communities — families, individuals and anonymous donors who dropped gifts into donation boxes across the region and directly at Toy Appeal HQ. This appeal does not exist without you!

🙏 WITH HEARTFELT THANKS TO:
ADS Landscaping | Ardagh Metal Packaging | Becki Jones| Biscuit Boulevard | Bondies Bar | C15 Counselling and Hypnotherapy (Jacki and Mary) | Car Fleet Wholesale | Cheshire Phoenix | Chester Handbooks and Pioneer House
Claire and Daisy Davies | Collette Littler / Cheshire Oaks | Costco | Crilly and Burns | CWP Sycamore House | Dawn Roberts | DJH Accountants | Dolphin Club / Meadow Primary School | Ellesmere Port Hospital | Ellesmere Port Market | Encirc Canteen | EP&N Security | Essar / EET Fuels | First Footers Dance Studio | First Great Sutton Alpha Cubs | Grange House Day Nursery | Great Sutton Day Nursery | Halifax Ellesmere Port | Hannah Murphy | Holdcroft Cheshire Oaks Honda | Hungry Horse Cheshire Oaks | Iliyan Malechkov | Innospec | Jeanne Fairbrother | Theatre Porto | Koala NW | Lily and Poppy Evans and Dad Andy | Liz Johnson | Lloyds Ellesmere Port | Love City Church | Mayor of Ellesmere Port, Katie Kendrick | Miss Mc of All Trades | MissFit Studios | Morrisons Ellesmere Port and Community Champion Sharon | Mugshots | Nationwide | NHS Cheshire and Merseyside | Nike | People’s Pantry | Po***ck Family (Sasha, Alex and Jack) | Pooltown Dental Practice | Primary Care Cheshire | PWC Solutions | Rebecca Leak | Regatta | Reward Gateway / Eden Red | SGS | SistersNSport | Stanlow Lodge | Stanney Oaks Estate / Collette Hawkins | Stars Dance Academy | Swarco Hitex | The Roberts Family (in memory of Edward Roberts) | Thomson Signs | Thyson Technology | Trina Mundy / Gayle | Wirral Car Sales

👏 FINAL THANK-YOUS

A huge thank you to our team at Stanlaw Abbey Development Trust — Laura Oldfield, Kristina Marie Dodd and Sam Lawson — who have worked tirelessly throughout the appeal.
And a very special thank you to KidsBank Chester, our charity partner, whose team is now working around the clock to ensure every gift reaches the right child at the right time.

We’ll be quieter over the next couple of weeks as fulfilment continues — but we’ll be back after Christmas to share the impact you’ve helped make possible.

From all of us at Stanlaw Abbey Development Trust, thank you — enjoy your big day knowing you’ve made a difference to someone else’s 🎄💛

18/12/2025

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17/12/2025

17/12/2025

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16/12/2025

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We produce 8 local A5 mags every month that are hand delivered by our reliable team to areas across Chester and Ellesmere Port resulting in A MASSIVE 38,500 copies!

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Your ad lands directly in the hands of people in your community who are ready to buy.

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Local magazines cater to specific neighborhoods or interests, so your message hits the right people.

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13/12/2025

For all our Upton readers!