East Midlands independent Jive groups act together to support Andrew Eldridge of dancebooker.co.uk in the holding of Pyjama Jive Party for cancer research.

Over a £1000 pounds was raised and is being donated to The Queen’s Hospital Burton upon Trent CT scanner appeal!

The Queen?s Hospital has so far raised over £200,000 towards the £500,000 it needs to buy the new CT scanner. “I’m delighted to announce that we are adding another £1,083.67 towards the total required” said Andrew.  This total was raised from the Pyjama Jive party held on Friday 30^thApril where modern jivers from around the midlands attended to support Andrews birthday event. Organiser Andrew Eldridge used his birthday as an excuse to create this fund raiser and get everyone together for a night of fun whilst helping a wonderful cause.

Nikki Rose & Patricia Rookyard who run modern jive classes as Want2Dance Burton and Dosthill were delighted to supply the music and equipment without charge and Carol provided the free use of the dance floor at the Belvedere club which meant every penny raised would go direct to the fund.

Andrew said “To help make sure we had a full house I spoke with Jon at Red Hot Jive - Ian at Pirate Jive – Mick at Jive café – Andy at Want2Dance Birstall and David at Want2Dance Hinckley – Mel at MelJive and all agreed not to hold a competing event on the night!  Not only that but they all supplied dance tickets for prizes in the raffle so I’m really grateful to all these guys for their support”.  "Big thanks must also go to the many guests who also donated prizes and made such a wonderful night of it all and also a very special thanks to Patricia (seen here top left with Andrew) who not only acted as DJ with me but also helped me enormously with advice on the organisation of the night as well as an extra special surprise dance for me!!!  It certainly topped a fine night and along with the Andy Pandy cake made by Kate and the amazing amount of money we all raised for the cause, I have to say it was the best birthday of my life" 

Andrew decided that the scanner appeal is the right place for the money to go to.  When the £500,000 is achieved it will allow the hospital to replace one of its two scanners and as the machine earmarked for replacement is nearing the end of its life the trust needs to have the money in place so it can be replaced by April next year. 

The new machine is capable of producing a full body scan in just three seconds and will help in two key ways, minimising the need for invasive procedures during diagnosis and assisting doctors to pinpoint the source of the problem.  In addition to cancer, this machine will help in the detection and pinpointing the source of many different conditions and so Andrew felt that the funds would be put to a greater use in helping more people to benefit.

If you wish to further help the appeal and find out more details about the appeal itself, see the website http://www.burtonhospitals.nhs.uk/fundraising/events.asp or contact the fund-raising coordinator, Lauren Docksey, on 01283 593111. You can also join the Facebook Friends of Queen's Hospital Scanner Appeal page.

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You can still donate and help this worthy appeal by making a donation via PayPal.  If you are on Facebook you can even help Andrew in his bid to create the worlds biggest portrait.

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