Your Charities: Light up Christmas
CANCER support charity Macmillan will be once again be lighting up Christmas with its annual Tree of Thought campaign.
The campaign invites people to make a donation and sponsor a light on a Tree of Thought for someone who cannot be with them this Christmas.
Last year £12,000 was raised for Macmillan services in Birmingham and the Black Country.
The trees will be erected later this month in Old Square, Birmingham city centre, Mell Square, Solihull, Shirley High Street, The Mall, Sutton Coldfield, Harborne High Street and Chelsmley Wood shopping centre.
Donna McNally, from Chelmsley Wood, knows only too well of the ways in which Macmillan help people who are touched by cancer. On October 16 Donna and her family held a fundraising event at Kingshurst and District Labour club in memory of her sister Melissa.
Donna said: “Melissa was a young woman diagnosed with kidney cancer at the age of 31 who for three years fought bravely.
“She was a strong, independent woman, and having two young children to look after, was determined not to let the cancer get the better of her.
