Girls Aloud members reuniting to host fundraising gala in honour of Sarah Harding-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

Harding’s fellow Girls Aloud members will all be hosting The Primrose Ball next month (Picture: Getty/Rex)

Girls Aloud members Cheryl, Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle and Nicola Roberts are to host a fundraising gala for cancer research next month in honour of their late bandmate Sarah Harding.

The Primrose Ball will be held at The Londoner hotel in central London on October 8, with performances from the likes of Olly Alexander and a live auction which includes an original canvas depicting the pop star by artistic duo the Connor Brothers.

The charity gala will raise funds for the Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Cancer Research UK, as part of the Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal.

Harding died aged 39 last September after revealing she had breast cancer which had spread to other parts of her body.

The four former Girls Aloud bandmates will host the event, with Fearne Cotton presenting and broadcaster Johnny Gould hosting the auction.

Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson and The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde are also among the line-up due to perform alongside Years & Years singer Alexander.

Harding died of breast cancer aged 39 last September (Picture: Getty)

The Primrose Ball has been organised at the request of Harding and named after her lyrics from their hit song The Promise where she sings ‘here I am walking Primrose’.

The former Girls Aloud members said in a statement: ‘We are so grateful to The Londoner for hosting the Primrose Ball at their wonderful hotel.

‘Charles Oak, hotel director of The Londoner, and Sarah had a very special bond and holding her gala evening there will make the night even more special.

Nicola, Nadine, Kimberley and Cheryl said in a joint statement that they all hope to raise ‘a huge amount of money’ in their beloved friend’s memory (Picture: Getty)

‘Our hope is to raise a huge amount of money that will hopefully prevent other people finding themselves in the same terrifying situation Sarah found herself in.’

In July, the singers took part in a 5k charity run, titled Race For Life For Sarah, to celebrate Harding’s life and raise money for breast cancer.

September 5 marked the anniversary of Harding’s death, with Kimberley leading the tributes.

Alongside a black and white photo of the singer, she penned: ‘Sarah passed away a year ago.

July saw Girls Aloud hold a 5k charity run for Harding too (Picture: PA)

‘I can still hardly believe it to be honest but it feels more real than ever today. Thinking of her always and of everyone who loved and miss her too 💔’

Peter Andre also remembered Harding, stating that she ‘will never be forgotten’.

‘It was such a shock when Sarah died, but what I love about the Great British public is that when a terrible situation like this happens and someone so loved passes, people put all their love and support behind the family,’ he penned in his OK! column.

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‘Sarah was a very loved person, she will never be forgotten. I hope her family have been able to in some way come to terms with their loss. It’s such a terrible thing to have happened to someone so young.’

The Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal aims to fund research to identify new ways to predict which young women, with no family history of breast cancer, are likely to develop the disease, ensuring people can be identified earlier when treatment is more likely to be successful.

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