A CHARITY founded by a former Bromsgrove councillor is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a concert.

The Cure Leukaemia charity was set up by Michael Woolley, a former leukaemia patient, in 2003 to raise money for the Leukaemia Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

Since being founded over £1m pounds has been raised, and the charity has helped secure a grant of £2.2m from Advantage West Midlands towards the cost of building and purchasing equipment for the centre. The centre opened in May 2006, and the charity has also worked towards negotiating £12m of new drugs from drug companies, for trials with patients.

The anniversary will be marked with a special concert at the town’s Spadesbourne Suite featuring the Kidderminster Male Choir and the Enigma String Quartet.

Mr Woolley, said: “As a result of treatment through the Leukaemia Centre I’m now in 100 per cent remission. Setting up Cure Leukaemia is my contribution to the treatment of other people with leukaemia.”

He added the charity had meant many people were now “alive, living full lives.”

To be held this Saturday, the concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £15, and there will also be a raffle. For more information call 0121 627 5858.