On Monday 17th November Councillor Sheenagh Unwin celebrated achieving Founding Member status from the Lingen Davies Cancer Charity’s in regards to their £5m appeal.

Councillor Unwin has set about raising at least £2,000 for the Lingen Davies Cancer Support’s Sunflower Appeal.

Councillor Sheenagh Unwin nominated the cause as her Chairman’s Charity earlier this year. And as Councillor Unwin was revealing the latest increased running tally as £1,507 at the council’s meeting on, parish clerk Katrina Baker revealed that she had received a certificate marking Founding Member status.

Councillor Unwin reported that a Chairman’s Charity bingo event held in November, had been attended by 50 people, boosting the fundraising total by more than £150.Further events are being planned in the coming months.

Councillors and council staff took part in a 24-hour bikeathon for the cause in October this year.

The Sunflower Appeal is Lingen Davies Cancer Support’s biggest appeal to date. It plans to open the Lingen Davies Chemotherapy Centre in Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital and have it up and running by 2029.

Together with existing chemotherapy services at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, the development will double capacity across the region. The dedicated new facility will provide for outpatients clinics, up to 30 chemotherapy bays, a lung diagnostic centre, and urology investigations unit.