Joy as charity achieves late founder's dream of raising £1m for Cancer Research UK
A Wyre Forest charity has achieved its late founder’s dream of raising £1 million for Cancer Research UK.
The announcement was made at the sell-out annual fundraising lunch organised by the small committee this week and attended by 140 guests including a host of dignitaries.
Margaret Griffin established the committee with her husband Leonard around 1966, but he died from cancer in 1989 and Margaret passed away in 2021, aged 91, as the committee was tantalisingly close to its goal, with in excess of £900,000 raised.
The committee, which runs its own fundraising events, encourages others to raise funds on its behalf and for people to leave money as bequests and in memoriams, has raised £500,000 in the last 16 years alone.
