THE daughter of a breast cancer victim has organised a bumper fundraising day for the hospice that cared for her mother during her final months.
Tracy Hindle has enlisted the help of ex-Blackburn Rovers star David Dunn, who will join dozens of Great Harwood residents and businesses for the day at the town's Plough Hotel on Sunday.
She said she is now overwhelmed by family and friends who have rallied round to raise money for East Lancashire Hospice, where her mother Julie, 47, spent her final weeks last November.
Tracy, 27, of Maple Street, Great Harwood, said: "Everybody has been brilliant and the amount of support we have got is staggering.
"My family has lived in Great Harwood all our lives and my mum was the sort of person everyone knew and it feels like the entire town is supporting us in one way or another.
"The hospice treated my mum a few times in the 12 months before she passed away and the staff there are absolutely fantastic. They all deserve awards because they are just so caring."
Brother Adam Talbot, 24, has helped to make sure Great Harwood's most famous son, David Dunn, who joined Birmingham from Rovers earlier this summer, will make an appearance to draw the raffle.
Adam is a friend of the midfielder from their days together at St Augustine's School, in Billington, which Tracy also attended.
There will be various stalls, children's activities, raffles and music at the event.
Dozens of businesses from Great Harwood and beyond have donated prizes, including Debenhams, in Blackburn, where Julie used to work behind the Estee Lauder counter.
Tracy, who has two sons, Lewis, three and Bradley, nine months, with her husband Paul, said: "Some of the prizes we have been given for the raffle are amazing and, hopefully, we can raise a lot of money."
Friends got the ball rolling in on Sunday when they held a sponsored bike ride from Great Harwood to Edisford Bridge.
The group of eight cyclists hope to have raised between £350 and £500 from that event to add to the total the day at the Plough will raise.
The hospice's head of fund-raising Stuart Andrew, said: "We are really thrilled that Tracy, her family and friends and it seems most of Great Harwood are supporting us in this way.
"The hospice is only here because of the support of the community.This is a wonderful example of the support we need to keeping our doors open to so many local patients and their families."
The day at the Plough starts at noon.
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