Charity celebrating with golden couples

IT’S triple gold for a local branch of the Macmillan charity.

Macmillan Cancer Support’s Shaw and Crompton voluntary committee is celebrating 50 years of fundraising as three of its members celebrate half a century of marriage.

The committee has raised £350,000 since it was formed in 1962 — £285,000 of that since David Quarmby became treasurer in 1994.

He and his wife Maureen — the committee’s social secretary - share their 50-year anniversary with the charity’s golden fundraising anniversary.

And to make the hat-trick, Maureen Johnson, a committee member for 10 years, and her husband Frank also celebrated their golden wedding this year, in May.

Both couples live in Foxhill, Shaw,

To mark 50 years of fundraising, all committee members have been goven long service awards by the charity. David also received the Richard Hambro Award, awarded by Macmillan to inspirational leaders.








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