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MOLD FUNDRAISERS AWARDED FOR 150 YEARS OF CHARITY SERVICE
12 June 2006

Five local Mold women have each received long service awards in recognition of their dedicated charity work for North West Cancer Research Fund.� Beryl Powell and Gladys Jones were both honoured for 40 years of service with Barbara Edge, Morfydd Jones and Jean Price each receiving awards for 25 years of service to the Mold committee.� The dedicated charity workers received their awards at North West Cancer Research Fund�s recent Annual General Meeting which was held last month.� The five women have all served as members of the Charity�s Mold committee for an impressive period totalling over one and a half centuries.

Beryl Powell, chairman of the Mold committee said: �I am delighted to receive my award, as are all of us from the Mold committee.� The work of North West Cancer Research Fund�s volunteers cannot be valued too highly.� The money that is raised locally is spent locally too.��

Beryl is referring to the research that takes place at the North West Cancer Research Fund Institute in the University of Bangor which was opened in 2004.� The Institute cost the charity �432, 000 to open in the same year that the Mold committee raised over �27,000.� The Mold committee are the charity�s most prolific fundraising branch, consistently raising impressive amounts each year. The money raised by Mold in 2003 undoubtedly allowed the recruitment of dedicated cancer researchers to conduct pioneering research at the Institute for the next 5 years

Barbara Edge, Morfydd Jones, Jean Price, Beryl Powell and Gladys Jones are pictured receiving their awards with the charity�s lifetime president Colonel Graeme Bryson at the AGM last month.

You can find North West Cancer Research Fund online at www.cancerresearchnorthwest.co.uk

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