A pop up café opened by members of the Dallam Rosemere Cancer Foundation Supporters’ Group to serve refreshments to those following this year’s Arnside and Silverdale Arts Trail raised £664.10 for the charity.

Group members set up kitchen in Storth Village Hall – one of the trail’s venues - for three days, serving everything from soup and sandwiches to full home-cooked meals from its daily specials board, as well as bacon butties, warm scones, cakes, teas and coffees

Group co-ordinator Alison Charlesworth said: “It was hard, but enjoyable too. Some of the group worked all three days while others gave just what time they could. All help was gratefully received and we had some wonderful comments from visitors - appreciation that made running the café doubly worthwhile.”

Rosemere Cancer Foundation spends the donations it receives on vital equipment, research and training that cannot be funded by the NHS as it strives to bring world class cancer treatments and services to local cancer patients throughout South Cumbria and Lancashire via their local hospitals and the region’s radiotherapy centre at the Rosemere Cancer Centre at Royal Preston Hospital.

Among Rosemere’s most recent local projects is funding a new quiet room in the Oncology Unit at Royal Lancaster Infirmary, which opened in May, and an end of life suite at Furness General Hospital that is due to open in October.

The charity also funds those things that can make the cancer journey more comfortable, such as free access to complementary therapies for all newly diagnosed patients. For further information on its work, visit its website at www.rosemere.org.uk