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Bands on the ball for charity

Three bands recently got together to raise funds for a great charity cause.

 

Last Friday, 100 members and friends of Killamarsh Silver, Dronfield and Maltby Miners Bands held a black-tie charity ball in aid of Cavendish Cancer Care.

And by the end of the evening over £1,300 had been raised for Killamarsh Band's adopted charity for 2009.

Nominated

Each year a local charity is nominated by the members of the band and over the last two years in excess of £1,000 has been raised for Ashgate Hospice, Chesterfield and Bluebell Wood Childrens' Hospice, Dinnington.

Killamarsh Band Chairman, Francis Hargate told 4BR: "We had hoped to raise at least a £1,000 on the night but when I got the final figure it was fantastic to discover it was so much."

We had hoped to raise at least a £1,000 on the night but when I got the final figure it was fantastic to discover it was so muchFrancis Hargate

Help

Cavendish Cancer Care are a Sheffield based independent charity establsihed over 15 years ago giving free emotional support to people and their families affected by cancer in Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

As well as the organisers, friends came from Whitwell, Barnsley Building Society, Dodworth and South Yorkshire Police Bands.

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