Tommy Cannon spreads Selby charity cheer (From York Press)

Tommy Cannon spreads Selby charity cheer

9:18am Friday 3rd February 2012 in Fundraising fun

A COMEDY veteran has returned to Selby College to celebrate the success of a charity recipe book put together by students.

Tommy Cannon helped launch The Sweetest Thoughts book in May last year, and returned to the college to present cheques for more than £1,000 each to Macmillan Nurses and Cancer Research UK.

The book was created by eight second-year hospitality and catering students with help from guidance and support tutor Angie Hobden, as a way to remember their former classmate Scott Robinson who lost his battle with testicular cancer in August 2010, aged 18.

Rachel Speight-McGregor, of Cancer Research UK, said the initiative was “fantastic”, and the results were beyond the charity’s expectation.

Tommy said: “Who would have thought last May that I’d be standing here today handing over £2,000 to charity from the sale of the book? I think it’s absolutely marvellous.”

Sallie Lockwood of Macmillan Nurses, who looked after Scott during his illness, said: “It is tremendous of the students to create this book and that it should raise so much cash.”