The brilliant Columbia Community Association is fundraising again – for the amazing Daft as a Brush charity: by our North East Correspondent Marion Taylor

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The Columbia Community Association committee of Oxclose Rd Washington Tyne & Wear NE38 7EN recently slogged away creating a smarter, more beautiful, extremely useful Community Centre. Not content with this, they had a thought and decided it was time to support a charity of their choice again this year. What better than the Daft as a Brush Charity.

This extraordinary charity serves those cancer patients requiring treatment involving transporting them ‘in a safe and comfortable environment from where they are living to where they will be having their treatment. If required, a volunteer companion will stay with the patient during their Chemotherapy and / or Radiotherapy.‘ What a comfort that must be.

‘The patient is returned to their home in readiness for their next course of treatment. The charity completes thousands of cancer patient journeys each year with a passionate team of hundreds of volunteers and a large fleet of ambulances. All donations received go directly to supporting cancer patients on their journey to recovery with Daft as a Brush Cancer Patient Care.’

So, on September 26th (starts 10.30) the CCA stalwarts are planning to host a fund raising event for this remarkable charitable organisation so that many more cancer patients can benefit from their kind and compassionate service. Last year the they fund raised for MacMillan Charity, and were able to donate £800 from the local community. But… of course, a Cake Bring and Buy sale requires cakes so please can you bake your wonderful cakes and bring them on the day, or buy a few to bring for the CCA to sell, again on the day, ‘just as we used to do in the old days’.

Of course, there will be free refreshments, plus a spirit raffle and a Gift Voucher raffle – Margaret Graham, editor of Frost Magazine, is already putting it in her diary, (though she promises she won’t bake cakes, because they will sag in the middle, a bit like her, she says – I can’t possibly comment!).

Donations for Daft as a Brush can be made to the CCA at any time – just pop in to Columbia Community Centre Oxclose Rd Washington Tyne & Wear NE38 7EN and come along on the day- 26th September 10.30 – to have an extra special coffee morning and get together.

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