A music fan is set to be remembered at a special fundraising concert to help cancer sufferers.

Jim Needham died last October following a brave fight against the disease and after nine years in charge of Bolton and District Electronic Organ Society as the club's chairman.

Now society members have arranged a special concert, featuring one of the country's top organ players, to help pull in the pounds for Bolton Hospice and the Christie's against Cancer appeal.

Keyboard expert Howard Beaumont will take to the stage next Tuesday night when all proceeds from ticket sales and raffles will go to help the cancer care charity and the town's well-supported hospice.

George Holmes, BADEOS' secretary, said: "Jim was a very popular chairman who had a unique personality.

"He was a down-to-earth man who did not have any airs and graces and who always had an immediate rapport with his audience.

"He enjoyed his music so much and had a varied taste in music although theatre organ being his majopr interest." Jim's love of organ music developed after one of his two daughters, Lisa, trained as a classic organist, with his great love being theatre organs.

Lisa, a former pupil of Bolton School who studied at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tuition of Halle choirmaster Ronald Frost, has given a series of cathedral concerts in the past.

Mr Needham's family are expected to join society members and charity representatives at the memorial concert which will start at 8pm.

Tickets for the event at the Horwich RMI Club, on Chorley New Road, are priced at £2 for members and £3 for non-members.