A TEXTILE art group has raised more than £1,400 for a women's cancer charity after a serious of events this year.

Snape Textile Group, which operates out of the tiny village near Bedale, North Yorkshire, raises cash for a charity close to the heart of one if its 35 members each year.

This year Philippa Starr suggested the group support a charity for ovarian cancer, but the group decided to support the Eve Appeal, the only UK national charity raising awareness and funding innovative research in the five gynaecological cancers.

Ms Starr said: “My mother died in 2011 from ovarian cancer - it is a pernicious disease with few symptoms in its initial stages and a lot of older women particularly, put the symptoms they do have down to age, as my mother did - by the time she was diagnosed it was far too late to save her life.”

Several other members had also lost loved ones to gynaecological cancers in recent years.

The group have ten workshops a year, led by internationally renowned artists from around the UK.

October’s session was led by textile and mixed media artist, Laura Edgar from Whitley Bay. When she heard the group were raising money for the Eve Appeal she donated two prints of her work to be raffled at the November coffee morning.

The group held its annual Christmas Coffee Morning at Snape Village Institute, near Bedale on Saturday, November 5 and was thrilled with the support given. The event along with donations from the group’s annual exhibition in August raised over £740 for The Eve Appeal. Earlier in the year an afternoon tea in the hall raised over £700 for the same appeal.