She has donated a bell to the oncology ward at Pontefract Hospital that can be rung when a person’s treatment is complete
and District Breast Cancer Support Group, creating a community to ensure nobody would suffer alone.
Having experienced the hardship of breast cancer herself, she channelled her energy into rallying around others with experiences of the illness. Image: James Hardisty "Seven ladies turned up to the first meeting and it's grown ever since,” she explained. “We meet once a month, we have 300 ladies under the wing now. It is a group but we don't sit in a circle saying 'my name is'. We don't do any of that.
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