The owner of the Hair Friendly salon in Belfast\u2019s Cathedral Quarter has raised almost \u00a34,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support by opening her garden to clients, family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christine Boyles explained that after her mum passed away from cancer several years ago, she invested much of the money she left her into her beloved garden – and had an \u2018open day\u2019 in aid of the Northern Ireland Hospice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After doing more work to the garden in recent years she thought she\u2019d organise a similar venture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Macmillan Cancer Support nurses really helped my mum so much so this time I thought I would do it for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was forecast to rain and I was praying like mad – but in the end it was a lovely sunny day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was just so pleased for everyone who had helped that their hard work paid off – people who washed the dishes, did the baking, sold the ballots, etc. They were all amazing,\u201d said Christine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maria Small, Fundraising Manager for Macmillan Cancer Support – who called at Hair Friendly to collect the cheque for almost \u00a33,700 – said: \u201cWithout people like Christine and the support she received from local people and businesses, Macmillan wouldn\u2019t be able to fund our personal services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t get any government funding so we rely on members of the general public holding events to help us provide things like our Macmillan nurses, patient grants and vital information services right across Northern Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The owner of the Hair Friendly salon in Belfast\u2019s Cathedral Quarter has raised almost \u00a34,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support by opening her garden to clients, family and friends. Christine Boyles explained that after her mum passed away from cancer several years ago, she invested much of the money she left her into her beloved garden … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17806,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804\/revisions\/17806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}