A black tie evening has raised £1,000 for teen cancer sufferer Kelly Turner.

The Doing it for Kelly Black Tie and Posh Frocks evening, at Deal and Betteshanger Rugby Club last Friday , was attended by up to 80 people including Kelly and her parents Martin and Linda.

There was entertainment from cabaret artist Steve King and husband and wife musical duo Mixed Emotions.

The fundraiser had been given a major boost with a £200 donation from the Masonic Athol Lodge in Great Queen Street, Central London.

It had been organised by Run Ashore, a roving dining club that moves between venues in Deal. It gives its surplus funds to charity.

Meanwhile Dover Community Craft Group raised £213 for Kelly through its recent fundraising day.
Members laid a line of 50p coins along the seafront. They raised the money through donations by passers-by and selling knitted hearts for St Valentine’s Day.

Kelly, soon to turn 17, of Dover, has a rare cancer called desmoplastic round cell tumours.

A potentially lifesaving treatment is not available in Britain so she needs to go to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Treatment has been quoted at $1.2m (or £1 million) and the sum raised by today (Wednesday) was £483,080 according to her JustGiving page.

Experts have agreed to perform the most crucial part of the treatment first, with immunotherapy provided when the full amount is raised.

`Kelly is making the most of her good health while her abdominal tumours have shrunk thanks to chemotherapy in Britain.

It is hoped she will be well enough to sit her GCSEs, which she largely had to abandon last summer because of her illness.

She hopes to undergo her operation in America afterwards.

Meanwhile a prayer vigil takes place for Kelly at the door of St Mary’s Church in Dover from 3pm on Saturday, March 4.

This is a non-fundraising event to wish for her speedy recovery and closes at 3.30pm with the Lord’s Prayer.

Otherwise fundraising event continue, such as a quiz night takes place that evening from 6pm to 10pm at Dover’s Charlton Church Hall at St Alphege Road.

You can bring your own food and drink and donations for raffle are welcome.

Tickets, which can be bought at the door, are £5 for adults and £3 for children.

A woman will shoot along hundreds of feet above ground in a zip wire challenge.

Kerri Alee will do this at Adrenalin Quarry at Liskeard, Cornwall on Saturday, March 11.

She will set up a JustGiving page where you can donate for her effort.

A spring social dance is at Dover Town Hall that day , from 8pm to 11pm. Raffle prizes are wanted.

Tickets are £5 in advance or at the door. To book call Chris on 07889 302217 or email chousley105@gmail.com.

Participants will dash in and out of pubs and bars in Deal with collection buckets.

The Fun Pub Run for Kelly begins and ends at the Hole in the Roof in Queen Street, starting from 7.30pm on Saturday, March 25.

Participating places are the Wetherspoon Sir Norman Wisdom, the New Inn, Burger Brothers, Bohemian, Port Arms, Kings Head, Dunkerleys and The Lane.

Money can be given via the website justgiving.com/fundraising/kelly-turner2000 or to the NatWest Bank at Dover.

The Kelly Turner Fundraising account number is 3976700, sort code 60 07 04. You can also give cash to collection buckets being provided by local businesses.