Mona’s 70th raises £2,100 for charities
Published at 11:47, Friday, 01 August 2008
THREE charities are each £700 better off thanks to Mona Brough, of Branthwaite.
She presented the money to the Anthony Nolan bone marrow appeal, Hospice at Home West Cumbria and the Branthwaite First Responders after raising the cash at a school fete.
Mrs Brough, a former dinner lady at the school, held the fete to celebrate her 70th birthday.
She has been raising money for charity for 30 years and was nominated as one of Cumbria’s Women of the Year in 2005.
The First Responders are especially dear to her heart, she said, after her husband Jim died after a heart attack.
She said the brave efforts by the Broughton and Brigham First Responders to save him so impressed Mona that she started fundraising to establish a similar emergency group for Dean, Ullock, Branthwaite and Gilgarran.
The initiative raised over £11,000.
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