Westbury fundraisers to be honoured at presentation night

TWO champion charity fundraisers from Westbury will be honoured this week for raising £1,000 or more for the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group (BCUSG).

Over the past year, they raised a total of £4,695 for the charity, which provides funds for the cancer unit at Bath Royal United Hospital (RUH).

The fundraisers’ efforts will be formally recognised when they, along with others, receive ‘£1,000-plus’ certificates from the Mayor of Bath, cllr Paul Crossley, at a presentation evening at the hospital on Wednesday (26th April). At the same time, BCUSG will hand over £90,000 to the RUH to pay for additional equipment needed to make the best use of the £1.2million PET-CT scanner the charity bought for the hospital last year.

The ‘Westbury Two’ are Gooding Accounts, who raised £3,395 at a race night, and Kevin Down, who raised £1,300 in memory of his wife, Gill, who died from cancer just before Christmas last year.

The Bath Cancer Unit mainly treats patients from North & West Wiltshire, Mid-Somerset, North Somerset and the City of Bath. Of a population of some 500,000 residents, more than 80 per cent live outside of Bath.

Since it was founded in 1985, the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group has raised around £4.4million. It is run entirely by volunteers, which means that more than 95 per cent of the money raised goes to the unit.

Since it was founded in 1988, the charity’s Trowbridge branch has raised more than £500,000. For more information about the group, contact the chairman, Tino Polledri, on 01225 762029, e-mail J.polledri@talktalk.net or the secretary, Jeanne Ingham-Law, on 01225 769136, e-mail jinghamlaw@talktalk.net