A Sarah Harding tribute night time being thrown by London’s in style hotspot, Heaven at G-A-Y, is being slammed by followers of the late star, who’ve accused the membership’s proprietor of making the most of her loss of life
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A nightclub has been slammed for its Sarah Harding tribute night time, with followers of the late star accusing the membership’s proprietor of capitalising on her loss of life.
London’s in style hotspot, Heaven at G-A-Y, is internet hosting an evening devoted to Sarah, who had carried out on the venue on a number of events, on September 18.
It comes after Sarah’s heartbroken mum shared the information final weekend that Sarah had died after bravely battling breast most cancers. She was simply 39-years-old.
In tribute, the nightclub introduced that it is going to be taking part in Ladies Aloud music on repeat between 10pm and 5am with a proportion of earnings being donated to a most cancers charity.
Clubgoers can pay £three for a wristband, with £1 from each ticket being donated to Macmillan Most cancers Assist.
Jeremy Joseph, who owns the nightclub, introduced the tribute night time on Twitter.
He tweeted: “Saturday 18th September @HeavenLGBTclub A @macmillancancer Fundraiser G-A-Y Pays Tribute To @SarahNHarding.
“Purpose is to lift £5000 celebrating Her Life With Hits Of Ladies Aloud performed with Saturday dance ground fillers.”
Twitter customers responding to the tweet, accusing the membership of making the most of Sarah’s loss of life.
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One tweeted: “That is really foul, and so out of contact, should you actually needed to lift cash you’d donate ALL the cash from tickets and drink gross sales – as somebody who’s had Macmillan assist them prior to now I believe that is disgusting and you ought to be ashamed.”
“OPEN YOUR PURSE!!” one other posted.
A 3rd wrote: ‘”That is in such dangerous style and I actually hope her household and mates do not see this.”
“How about 100% of the entry to charity?” a fourth mentioned.
One other agreed: “I do not normally soar on bandwagon however that is actually dangerous style it will solely be a tribute if all wristband purchases went too charity. And even then it’s nonetheless distasteful.”
Jeremy responded to the backlash on Twitter, writing: “Learn what’s written. The aim is to lift over £5000, we’re solely asking £1 per buyer, the remaining will come from G-A-Y & hopefully it is going to be greater than £5000 & after all you may donate right here at virginmoneygiving.com/fund/65Miles65Grants.”
In an announcement to Metro.co.uk, a spokesperson mentioned: “The aim is to lift over £5k, £1 of which might be coated by the door donation by prospects. The capability of heaven is 1,625, so G-A-Y might be donating £3375, however presumably extra, as nobody is aware of the take from the night time as entry alone is over £15,000 an evening.
“It is a disgrace {that a} venue is being attacked for doing an occasion for somebody who has been an enormous a part of G-A-Y historical past.
“The £1 per individual on door was G-A-Y being clear as it’s on all its fundraising, it is not the overall quantity, it’s the quantity that’s being donated by prospects, the remaining is from G-A-Y which is obvious within the occasion.’
They added: “Would possibly I additionally add that Jeremy is working London Marathon for Macmillan’s as that is a part of fundraising objectives, so possibly as an alternative of monitoring, how about selling fundraising and the right way to donate.”
The Mirror has contacted a rep for Jeremy Joseph and is at present awaiting remark.
