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Children’s charity Action Medical Research is delighted to announce its recent Killer Heels & Cocktails in Aberdeen raised over £65,00
The annual event was held at the Beach Ballroom on Friday 1 November.
The event’s Treasurer. Sheena Anderson, who has been on the committee since the start, said: “Killer Heels has become something of a tradition here in Aberdeen and we’re delighted to have raised £750,000 over nine years and had a lot of fun along the way!”
This year’s event was another sell-out, attended by 450 of Aberdeen’s most influential ladies and successful business women, including a few gents!
As well as a delicious lunch, there was a fabulous live auction, wonderful live music from Myke Black, The London Essentials, Sway Allstars and finishing with ‘The Red Hot Chilli Pipers’ which created an amazing atmosphere.
The Aberdeen ‘Killer Heels and Cocktails’ event was kindly sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments, Banchory Fishings, Esslemont Marquees, Indigo 7 Ventures, Stewart Milne Group, Taylors Industrial Services and Wm Donald Ltd.
Action Medical Research is a UK-wide children’s charity which funds desperately needed research to tackle the diseases that devastate the lives of so many of our children. It has been funding medical breakthroughs since it began in 1952 including helping to introduce the first polio vaccines in the UK, developing the use of ultrasound in pregnancy and testing the rubella vaccine.
Action is currently funding research into areas including premature birth, epilepsy, asthma, scarlet fever, cerebral palsy, brain cancer and some rare and distressing conditions.
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Action Medical Research is a leading UK-wide charity saving and changing children’s lives through medical research. For more than 65 years we’ve helped pioneer ways to prevent disease and develop treatments benefiting millions of people. Our research has helped to beat polio in the UK, develop ultrasound in pregnancy, fight meningitis and prevent stillbirths. But we urgently need to develop more new treatments and cures for sick babies and children and we can’t do it without you.
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