The Yorkshire Press & Media Ball has this year raised more than £2,300.

The total sum raised by the organizers, for Yorkshire Cancer research, has now topped £6,000 overall.

More than 230 people enjoyed a night of fun and fundraising at the Royal Armories in Leeds, where special guests mingled with journalists and local personalities.

Journalists from the Yorkshire Evening Post, Yorkshire Post, York Evening Press, Northern Echo, Sheffield Star, Harrogate Advertiser, Radio Leeds, the Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Scarborough Evening News, BBC Look North, the Huddersfield Examiner and Yorkshire Women’s Life – among others – were there.

Entertainment was provided by Three Men and a Bass, as well as a table illusionist and disco.

The Ball was sponsored by Transco, with support from a number of other local firms.

Huddersfield Examiner journalist Brigid Shaw, the ball organiser, said: “It was tremendously hard work but the money raised, as well as the occasion it turned out to be, made everything worthwhile.

“We couldn’t have done it without Transco’s support, and the night went very well.”

Organiser Brigid Shaw with communications advisor for Transco, James Ruane, artist Ashley Jackson,
TV presenter Carl Wilde, Sally Crerar, head of fundraising at Yorkshire Cancer Research and
Karen Hindhaugh of Transco.

The proceeds will go to Yorkshire Cancer Research, which pays for teams of scientists at each of the leading Yorkshire universities – Leeds, Bradford, York, Sheffield and Hull – and their associated teaching hospitals.

Previous balls, held at the McAlpine Stadium in Huddersfield and organised with Brigid’s former colleague, Sally Cope, raised money for The Starlight Children’s Foundation.

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