Social column entry on TCT

["L. Bird" <pkeets@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/archived/2003/0307/news/asp/p7news2.asp

DATE: 15/03/2003 TIME: 06:12:04 GMT

Making up for cancer teens
Editorial

editorial@hamhigh.co.uk
MEMBERS of a Hampstead club enjoyed an evening of pampering at a lifestyle 
store to raise thousands of pounds for teenage cancer victims.
About 60 members of the Hampstead Womens Club attended an evening of beauty 
at Aveda Lifestyle Store, in Marylebone High Street, last Wednesday.
Members paid for makeovers and massages and Aveda donated part of the cash 
to the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT), an organisation that meets the medical 
and emotional needs of young cancer victims.
More money was raised through a raffle and auction, with prizes on offer 
including an oil painting by Michael Quirk, a wine decanter from the estate 
of Sir John Gielgud and tickets to upcoming benefit concerts for the TCT at 
the Royal Albert Hall, organised by its patron, Roger Daltrey.
Tickets for the concerts, which run from March 24 to 29 and star Coldplay, 
Eric Clapton and Madness, fetched more than #2,500.
Club member Robin Kanarek said: It was just a magical night and we amassed 
an amazing #16,500 for the TCT.
Mrs Kanarek, a nurse whose teenage son David died from cancer two years ago, 
said TCT and Hampstead Womens Club had helped her put her life back 
together after the death of her son.
They are just so loving and so giving, you develop friendships and people 
are just amazing. You get so much love back and it has given me a sense of 
purpose, she said.
TCT was founded 12 years ago to provided support and specialist care for the 
one in 330 boys and one in 450 girls who develop cancer before they are 20.



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