Lady Elsie Robson has unveiled a special bench at the North Tyneside headquarters of the Newcastle Building Society to mark a decade in which the organisation has raised an astonishing £3m for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
The money - which has been put towards caring for and supporting those with cancer in our region along with funding vital research - has been raised through what is the foundation's only formal financial partnership.
Lady Elsie, with two of her sons - Andrew and Mark - attended a reception at the building society along with figures from the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust. The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, set up by the late Newcastle and England football manager in 2008, forms a fund which is part of the Newcastle Hospitals Charity.
