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Stockport Spider Men bringing smiles to children in lockdown
Portrait by
Jason Baird
Stockport
The Stockport Spider Men was started by friends Jason Baird and Andrew Baldock who both took to the streets of Stockport right at the start of lockdown dressed as Spider Man to use their daily exercise time to keep the children smiling. This then turned in to a national phenomenon with over fifty other members of the general public joining dressed as various other characters. On top of visiting the community to bring 'social distancing smiles’, as Jason called it, Jason also set up a Justgiving fund for the NHS Charities Together and in the four months of lockdown raised over £60,000 for the real superheroes, our wonderful NHS.