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Naomi Clarke, PA Entertainment Reporter & Joel Leaver

Girls Aloud to host glamorous fundraising gala in honour of Sarah Harding next month

A fundraising gala will be held in honour of the late Sarah Harding next month by her bandmates from Girls Aloud.

It comes after the girls did a charity run in July in tribute to Sarah - who died aged 39 last year after being diagnosed with breast cancer, which spread to other parts of her body.

Her former bandmates Cheryl, 39, Nadine Coyle, 37, Nicola Roberts, 36, Kimberley Walsh, 40 will now host the Primrose Ball at the Londoner hotel on October 8.

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

A charity gala will be held in honour of the late Sarah Harding (centre) by her bandmates from Girls Aloud (Getty Images)

Whilst the event will be hosted by the rest of Girls Aloud - who were formed in 2002 - it will be presented by Fearne Cotton, 41, with Johnny Gould hosting a live auction.

It will feature performances from the likes of Years and Years' Olly Alexander, 32, and the auction will include an original canvas depicting Sarah by artistic duo the Connor Brothers.

Sarah passed away last year after sharing that she had been diagnosed with cancer (Getty Images)
The upcoming event in her honour will be presented by Fearne Cotton (Dave Benett/Getty Images)

The line-up also includes Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson, 44, and The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde, 71, who are among those due to perform at the charity event.

The Primrose Ball has been organised at the request of Sarah and is named after her lyrics in Girls Aloud's chart topper The Promise - in which she sings: "Here I am, walking Primrose".

The Primrose Ball is named after lyrics sung by Sarah in the band's song The Promise, which they're pictured performing at the Brit Awards in 2009 (Getty Images)

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Her former bandmates said in a statement about the upcoming fundraising gala: "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," they further stated.

Nicola Roberts, Cheryl and Nadine Coyle reunited for a charity run earlier this year, which Kimberley Walsh also participated in but at a different location (PA)

They added: "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."

Cheryl, Nadine, Nicola and Kimberley took part in a Race for Life for Sarah fundraiser a few months ago, which celebrated her life and raised money for breast cancer charities.

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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