Dinner event raises another £2.5k for the Annie Kenney Project

Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon speaks at the dinner event at Cafe Lahore

The latest Annie Kenney Project fund-raising event – a business and education networking dinner hosted by Oldham’s Asian Business Leaders – raised an amazing £2,510.

Again staged at the Café Lahore restaurant on Union Street in Oldham, this latest event’s guest speakers included Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon, local businesswoman Monira Hussain, from MAYA solicitors, and Oldham-born actress Amy Gavin. 

Organiser Kashif Ashraf: “This was our second event at Café Lahore, and once again the evening proved a huge success.”

Mr McMahon added in a Tweet: “Amazing! Oldham business and education community raised £2,510 last night and we are almost at our £31,000 fundraising target to Annie Kenney statue.

“It’s inspiring how the Oldham community has come together for this cause.”

Annie Kenney was a leading member of the suffragette movement.

She came from Oldham and had working class origins.

She was the only working class woman to hold a senior position in the ‘Women’s Social and Political Union’ (WSPU), which spearheaded the campaign for universal suffrage under the banner ‘Votes for Women'.

The Annie Kenney Project aims to raise, by public subscription, the funding to erect a statue in her honour outside Oldham's historic Town Hall, in Parliament Square.

Sculptor Denise Dutton has been commissioned to create the statue, which is due to be unveiled in December.

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