Get your bonnets ready for grand Easter bazaar
Event to raise funds for charity created in memory of eye surgeon
AN Easter bazaar in aid of the Victoria Cohen Eye Cancer Charity is to take place in Alstonefield.
The event will be held at Notty Hornblower’s house and costume museum at Hope House on Easter Saturday, April 16, between 10am and 3pm.
There will be stalls, tombola, garden games and homemade refreshments will be available all day.
At 12noon an Easter Bonnet Competition will be held followed by an Easter Egg Hunt in the field. The museum will also be open.
Admission to the event costs £2 – and children go free.
During Christmas 2020 Margaret and Geoffrey Cohen, of Alstonefield, lost their daughter Vicky unexpectedly at the age of just 50.
Vicky was a much-loved eye surgeon, specialising in the treatment of eye cancer (ocular oncology) at Moorfields and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.
She trained eye surgeons in her own speciality from all over the world to improve the outcomes for patients with eye cancer.
In recognition of her life-long commitment, and in order to preserve her legacy, her husband Nick, in conjunction with board members from some of the societies Vicky was associated with, such as the International Society of Ocular Oncologists (ISOO) and the Ocular Oncology Group (OOG), set up the charity to continue the work she did internationally. The charity, which will fund an annual scholarship awarded on merit by an international panel of experts, who knew Victoria well, will have a singular and focused remit in line with Vicky’s interests, which is to help support the education and training of ocular oncologists through financial grants.
Every year, an international panel of experts in Ocular Oncology will select an applicant from ophthalmic surgery worldwide to receive this training grant.
Margaret said: “Victoria’s Eye Cancer Charity is proceeding well and the annual training fellowship to carry on her pioneering work is attracting young eye surgeons throughout the world to apply.”