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Two
award-winning young Bollywood dancers from the South London School of
the Angel Dance troupe, Ami Valani and Minal Samant, both 17 years
old, put on a colourful show of six Bhangra and Bollywood dances to
raise money for Greenwich & Bexley Cottage Hospice on 30th October.
At a
fund-raising dinner, hosted at the Jalsha Tandoori Restaurant at
Station Road, Sidcup by partner-owners Ecklas and Mokbul Ali,
appreciative customers and Hospice staff were treated to a cultural
display of the graceful, skilled and complex moves of Indian dance
that Ami and Minal have been practising from very young ages.
Raffle prizes
for the event included a very large and appealing teddy bear, a
bottle of premium Cognac, a Jalsha Dinner for Two, and a hamper of
Kingfisher Premium Lager. A proportion of the dinner takings, plus
the raffle and the final auctioning of the teddy bear, raised a total
of £270 for the Hospice.
The Hospice's
Chief Executive Jim Bennett said that the Jalsha had provided a
delightful show, with excellent cuisine and service, and that
Greenwich & Bexley Cottage Hospice rely heavily upon the goodwill
of such enterprises to help the Hospice to provide their special care
to patients with life-limiting illnesses.
During the
past year, 417 patients have been cared for in the Hospice's
Woodlands in-patient unit; there have been 3028 attendances in
Shornells, the Day Centre; 1468 patients have received care from
their Lymphoedema or Breathlessness services, and in excess of 7,000
hours of counselling and support for patients and their families has
been provided. Greenwich & Bexley Hospice care is 24-hour, each
and every day, at no cost to any of the patients.
The Jalsha
Tandoori Restaurant is situated at 169-171 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent
DA15 7AA.Tel: 020 8300 0777/2527.
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