A RIBBLE Valley charity is hoping to turn unwanted mobile phones into cash to raise funds for the Cancer Research Campaign.

The Ribble Valley Ladies Luncheon Club is hoping to receive £5 from each phone donated, which will be used to fund vital research into children's cancer.

Club chairman Penny Green said: "Old mobile phone are not worthless junk. Any old, unwanted or out of date mobiles are very valuable both for their monetary value and because of the good cause they can support.

"The Club is hoping to collect as many unwanted mobile phones as possible, which we can then take to an organisation who will swap them for money."

Now Penny is hoping to spread the word to club members, friends, colleagues and local companies to donate their unwanted phones.

Stirk House Hotel, Gisburn, will be the collection point and members can take their collections along to the next club luncheon at the hotel on December 5.

Guest speakers at the luncheon are former Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith and fashion and social historian Rosemary Hawthorne, who comments on social history through the changing styles of ladies underwear.

The event will be sponsored by Burnley furniture manufacturers Mills and Scott to mark the 20th anniversary of the company's foundation.

The Ribble Valley Ladies Luncheon Club has already raised £130,000 for the Cancer Research Campaign since starting three years ago.