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21.07.2023 - 09:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A well-known Manchester businesswoman has donated her cut from the sale of a company she founded to charity.
Sandy Lindsay MBE was the majority shareholder of a digital marketing not-for-profit apprenticeship provider which has now been sold. Her share of the initial sale price of The Juice Academy has been donated to Forever Manchester to form a fund worth more than £300,000 over three years.
The Manchester-based firm was created in 2013 by marketing consultancy Tangerine Communications and has now been sold to Apprentify Group. To date, The Juice Academy has created more than 600 roles.
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Sandy Lindsay founded Tangerine Communications in Manchester, which is now employee owned, and has served as its chair since 2014. She has also been a director of The Juice Academy since it was founded as well as vice chair of Forever Manchester since November 2008.
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She said: "I am so proud of all the careers we’ve been able to support via the academy.
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"We were only going to run the programme for two or three years while we helped plug the skills gap, but it’s always been essential and so we continued.
"I’m doubly delighted that not only will the academy and its full team be transferring into the hands of our partner, Apprentify, which has ambitious plans to grow, but also that an additional legacy of its first ten
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