A memorial concert in memory of Jeannet Cowley, a local girl fom Highley and familiar face in Sainsburys Bridgnorth was held at The Severn Centre, Highley last weekend.
Jeanette sadly passed away last year after suffering from Lupus. Lupus is a rare illness of the immune system, a condition in which the body’s defence mechanism begins to attack itself through an excess of antibodies in the blood stream. The disease has many symptoms, so can be difficult to diagnose and is often overlooked.
Some 50,000 people in the UK suffer from Lupus, 90% of which are female, yet the cause is not positively known despite the disease's discovery over 300 years ago.
Bridgorth Choral Society were pleased to be able to present a cheque in the sum of £700 to Paul McManus of Lupus UK, which was very graciously received and 'would be very well spent helping lupus patients and those seeking diagnosis, improving national awareness and funding research into the causes and future cure for the illness'.
