Strictly Stylish Event to Raise Thousands of Pounds for Charity

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8th February 2010

strictly stylish event to raise thousands of pounds for charity
LighterLife teams up with Forward Ladies to host charity event

Leeds based leading weight-loss and weight-management programme, LighterLife , is hosting a strictly stylish event this month that is set to raise thousands for Yorkshire Cancer Research to celebrate the city's achievements.

The Strictly Stylish Fashion Show on Saturday 27th February at Aspire in Leeds will see the crème de la crème of the region's businesses in attendance to provide a perfect opportunity for networking. With sponsorship and attendance from Grand Central , Debenhams , Forward Ladies , Yorkshire Cancer Research and many others, the 300 guests are set to have a dazzling night.

Guest speakers will include Apprentice star Claire Young, Etta Cohen, founder of Forward Ladies, Sally Crerar, Head of Community Fundraising at Yorkshire Cancer Research, and Mark Hoban of hit TV series Last Man Standing as the compère. Promising to be a fun filled night of glitz and glamour with a strictly come dancing Latino dance display, hot food and the chance to salsa the night away, the 300 guests are guaranteed to have a fantastic night.

Melanie Ellyard, LighterLife Counsellor has ambitious targets for the event and is hoping to raise thousands of pounds for YCR with the proceeds going to research at the Universities of Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield, York and their associated teaching hospitals and the MRI centre at Hull Royal Infirmary.

Melanie said: “This event is an opportunity for my clients to celebrate their amazing success, whilst offering local businesses like ours the chance to network and help a fantastic charity. Cancer touches the lives of so many people, so we are very pleased to offer Yorkshire Cancer Research some support to their vital work.”

Local LighterLife clients from Leeds and Pudsey will be strutting their stuff in association with Debenhams Personal Shoppers to celebrate their achievements having lost almost 700 stone between them in the last year - the equivalent of 4.5 double decker buses!

Yorkshire Cancer Research, Sally Crerar Head of Community Fundraising, said: “We are very grateful to Melanie for her continued support in raising funds for the Yorkshire Cancer Research. We rely on donations from kind members of the community such as this and we wish Melanie and her clients a thoroughly enjoyable evening."

The event starts at 6.30pm. Tickets cost just £20 and can be purchased by contacting Melanie Ellyard and her team on 0113 2565789 or email pudseyenquiries@lighterlifecounsellor.com. For further information, please visit www.strictlystylish.co.uk.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

- LighterLife is a weight-loss and weight-management programme for people who are one stone or more overweight and with a body mass index of 25 or above. Over 200,000 people have successfully lost weight with LighterLife since 1996.

- The unique LighterLife approach offers programmes specific to the obese and the overweight in the form of nutritionally balanced soups, shakes and bars combined with specialised counselling using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and transactional analysis (TA) techniques. Clients benefit not only from rapid, safe weight loss but they also learn the behavioural changes needed to sustain it.

- Grand Central is a railway service connecting Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Teesside and North Yorkshire with London. For further information visit www.grandcentralrail.co.uk/

- For further information visit www.lighterlife.com.

- Caption: Fashion show models and LighterLife Councellor, Melanie Ellyard (centre) outside of Aspire in Leeds.

For more information contact:

Rebecca Campbell
Chocolate PR
pr@chocolatepr.co.uk
01132459132

Strictly Stylish Event to Raise Money for Charity