A GALA event held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of a cinema being re-opened has raised £200 for charity.
The hit film Calendar Girls was screened at the Ritz, in Thirsk, on March 4, ten years after the cinema re-opened.
The film tells the true story of the ladies from the Rylstone Women's Institute and their decision to raise funds for cancer charities after the death of one of their husbands.
Members of the Ritz volunteer management committee felt that it would be a fitting tribute to donate the proceeds of the event to cancer appeals.
Cheques for £100 each were presented to the Joan Maynard Appeal, which is creating a palliative care unit at the Lambert Hospital in Thirsk, and to Flo Sowerby, of the Thirsk branch of Yorkshire Cancer Research.
"Cancer is very much in the media at present and affects so many families," said Mrs Sowerby.
"It is nice that the supporters of the Ritz are so generous."
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