IT’S a red letter day for Birmingham’s ‘Calendar Girls’ after they topped their target of raising £10,000 for breast cancer victims.
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IT’S a red letter day for Birmingham’s ‘Calendar Girls’ after they topped their target of raising £10,000 for breast cancer victims.
The 22 women, who all suffered with the disease and met through Breast Friends group at Sutton Coldfield’s Good Hope Hospital, bared all for the Think Pink calendar.
And their daring pictures paid off as they have now brought in £10,000 for the support group to help future sufferers.
A portion will also go towards the Cancer Support Centre in the town.
Mum-of-four Angela Rabone, aged 53 and from Sutton Coldfield, said: “Everyone is so relieved.
“It was extremely hard work.
“It’s amazing how many people showed their generosity and the launch with Kay Alexander at Aston Wood Golf Club got us off to a flying start.”
Angela, a teacher at Blackwood Primary School in Streetly, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006.
Her sister, Barbara Madden, a receptionist at Boldmere’s Trylogy Hair, was also hit with the disease a year later.
They both featured in the calendar, organised by Angela and ‘Breast Friend’ Janette Chamberlain, a 47-year-old mum-of-two who was diagnosed in 2003.
“I got the results that I had breast cancer on my own and Breast Friends became important to me as somewhere I could go to talk to people,” said Angela.
“The group has helped a lot of people and everyone involved with it was keen to get involved with the calendar.”
Breast Friends supports both the victims of cancer and their families offering help such as house cleaning and laundry when women are most ill.
The Cancer Support Centre offers counselling and therapies like reflexology to patients.
Meetings take place at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield at 7.30pm on the last Monday of most months.