A leading Midlands charity will benefit from the success of businesswomen across the country.
Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer has set the target of raising £1 million to buy a digital mobile mammogram trailer for the Queen Elizabeth Cancer Unit in Birmingham.
The charity has been boosted in their fundraising goal after being adopted as one of the benefiting charities at the 2013 Women of the Year Luncheon and Awards.
Britain’s double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes MBE is the guest speaker at the event at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on Friday, October 11 at 10.30am when hundreds of the UK’s top businesswomen will be networking ahead of the presentation of the Woman of the Year and Woman of Achievement Awards.
Lady Patricia Jones, Patron for Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer, said the £1 million appeal was its most ambitious target yet but with the help of the guests attending the Women of the Year Luncheon and Awards, she was confident it would be met.
“We are very pleased to have been adopted as a charity for 2013 not only from a fundraising perspective but because of the recognition it will give us by being associated with such a prestigious event.
“I am looking forward to hearing the many and varied inspirational stories from businesswomen who have succeeded in their chosen sector. I am sure we will also raise a significant amount of money towards our £1 million target to buy a second and much-needed mobile mammogram trailer above and beyond NHS means, and to purchase non-clinical services for patients.
“Breast cancer is a disease which when caught in the early stages can often be beaten and funding this second piece of equipment will help even more women survive this disease.”
Awards chair Judy Groves said Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer continued to fund much-needed equipment to help women in the Midlands try to beat the disease.
She said: “The charity must be applauded for its sterling fundraising efforts since it was started in 2000 to buy extra equipment to help the wonderful staff at the Queen Elizabeth Cancer Unit assist women with breast cancer.
“We are proud to be linking up with Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer as our adopted charity this year and I know everyone who attends our luncheon and awards will support them as much as they possibly can.”
Tickets are now available at £75 per person or £900 for a table of 12 to attend the 2013 Women of the Year Luncheon and Awards.
To put forward a nomination for the Woman of the Year award or to buy tickets, visit www.womenoftheyear.uk.com or www.womenoftheyear.org.uk