Health Matters: Chance to win a new look for a good cause

Yorkshire's own national heart charity, Heart Research UK, is giving two lucky women the chance to win a luxury makeover on Monday, December 6. The winners of the charity's Gok Wan-style competition will receive a complete make-over. Tickets are £10 in advance from 0113 234 7474 or email [email protected]. All proceeds from the event will go to Heart Research UK www.heartresearch.org.uk.

Hospitals looking for more volunteers

Bradford Teaching Hospitals is looking for volunteers. The Foundation Trust has about 500 volunteers working throughout the Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital, but they need even more, particularly on the wards, in the tea-bars, as hospital guides and play assistants on the children's units. Volunteers are needed for three to four hours, one morning or afternoon each week.

Call 01274 364309.

Cancer patients take to catwalk for charity

A FASHION show at the Queens Hotel, Leeds, raised 5,000 for Breast Care Research Action Group (BCRAG), a charity of Leeds patients and supporters of breast cancer research at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals. All the 13 models had undergone or are undergoing treatment for breast cancer in the Breast Care Unit in the Clarendon Wing at Leeds General Infirmary.