Excelsior Lodge No 3580 held their annual Ladies Night at the Hillcrest Hotel Widnes which was opened by the WM Adam McGee and his wife Helen. During the evening festivities raffles and auctions were held to raise funds for the designated charity.
There were raffle prizes donated by the brethren of Excelsior Lodge, including items donated by Jim Corcoran to be auctioned, but these were dealt with by closed bids on the evening. It was a successful evening with £2,000 raised which will be donated to the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission, which the lodge has recently supported at the Walton Neuro Hospital.
Jim Corcoran has been undertaking fundraising activities for the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission patients who have been diagnosed with brain cancer and often have complex physical, cognitive and physiological needs and families may struggle to manage these. In collaboration with the Walton Centre and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, the Cancer Mission has helped develop training materials and resources to help support patients and their families. Jim’s fundraising is vital to support this initiative that will help countless patients and their families in the future.
The University of Liverpool’s Glioblastoma (Brain Cancer) Fund is just £20,000 short of achieving its £250.000 target which will help support lifesaving research. In recent months a generous gift from the Haugh family has bolstered the campaigns total to more than £230.000 less than £20,000 away from the campaign being fully funded. In September this year, Professor Michael Jenkinson and Dr Michael Cearns welcomed Kelly Haugh and her family who have raised nearly £6,000 in memory of her father Robert Jones who sadly died from glioblastoma in 2022.
