What is Lorraine Kelly’s Change and Check Choir and who is part of the Loose Women star’s singing group?
ITV’s Lorraine Kelly and her life-saving Change and Check campaign are back with a new song to hit the charts.
What’s more, the Change and Check choir are set to make a very special appearance on the Royal Variety Performance 2024, with a song that aims to raise awareness of breast cancer.
What is Lorraine Kelly’s Change and Check Campaign?
The daytime presenter’s Change and Check campaign aims to raise awareness of breast cancer signs and symptoms, encouraging women to check their chests regularly and properly.
The initiative also encourages people to seek medical advice if they notice any changes and teaches women exactly what changes to look out for.
This year the members celebrate their sixth year.
The choir is made up of breast cancer survivors, many of were screened for cancer after seeing the campaign on Lorraine Kelly‘s ITV show .
What’s the Change and Check song of 2024?
Lorraine and her Change and Check choir have collaborated with Scottish singer, Marti Pellow.
This years new charity song is a special rendition of “Love is All Around” by Wet Wet Wet, featuring Marti Pellow and the Change and Check Choir.
Speaking on what it feels like to be part of the 2024 charity choir, Marti said: “I was so impressed with the choir.
“I loved the energy that they brought to the table for it and it was just fantastic to be a part of.
“This year is the 30th anniversary of ‘Love is All Around’ so it’s even more special for me to be associated with this wonderful charity and to give the song a destination and purpose – that was the thing that was most exciting and I was most proud of.
“Get downloading!”
The track is officially out now, and you can download the single using Amazon and Apple Music.
All proceeds go to Future Dreams charity to be used for secondary breast cancer research.
You can support the Change and Check Campaign via Future Dreams by clicking the donate button in the top right hand corner of their website.
You can even purchase Change and Check stickers or leaflets to help circulate the knowledge.
Singer Marti is also donating £1 for every ticket of his 2025 stadium tour to the cause.
Change and Check choir are hoping this could be their second number one single.
In 2023, the choir recorded the song “Golden” with Grammy Award-winning singer Joss Stone to raise awareness of the campaign.
The charity song reached number one in the UK charts, with the single topping the iTunes chart, briefly surpassing The Beatles on downloads.
Tributes
The Joss Stone song, Golden, was dedicated to 33-year-old Hannah Hawkins.
Hannah was an ITV producer and dear friend of Lorraine’s, who sadly passed away from secondary breast cancer on November 3, 2023.
Paying tribute to her late pal, Lorraine opened her show with a heartfelt message after sharing the “saddest news” on Instagram.
The Scots star said: “We’ve got some very sad news about a much-loved member of our team.
“Our producer Hannah Hawkins died just before the weekend, after discovering her cancer had returned only a few months ago, just shortly after she gave birth to her beautiful boy Rory.
“She was amazing at raising awareness and money for breast cancer.”
“Too young, too soon. It’s really difficult for all of us”
Who else is part of the Change and check choir 2024?
The Change and Check Choir is made up of over 20 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer after seeing the Change and Check campaign on Lorraine Kelly‘s ITV show.
One of the choir members is Adele Mckeown from Wales.
Adele joined the choir almost five-years-ago after finding out she had cancer as a direct result of the campaign.
She said: “It started by placing stickers in changing rooms showing some of the lesser known symptoms.
What are the signs of breast cancer?
BREAST cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK.
The majority of women who get it are over 50, but younger women and, in rare cases, men can also get breast cancer.
If it’s treated early enough, breast cancer can be prevented from spreading to other parts of the body.
Breast cancer can have a number of symptoms, but the first noticeable symptom is usually a lump or area of thickened breast tissue.
Most breast lumps aren’t cancerous, but it’s always best to have them checked by your doctor. You should also speak to your GP if you notice any of the following:
- a change in the size or shape of one or both breasts
- discharge from either of your nipples (which may be streaked with blood)
- a lump or swelling in either of your armpits
- dimpling on the skin of your breasts
- a rash on or around your nipple
- a change in the appearance of your nipple, such as becoming sunken into your breast
Source: NHS
“Our main aim is to just raise awareness and encourage women and men to know there normal and check for changes.
“Each year we try to have an event – We’ve climbed the 02, had our own hot air balloon one year and last year the girls released a single with Joss Stone.
“This time, Marti Pellow approached us and offered us ‘Love is All Around’ with all proceeds going to Future Dreams charity to be used for secondary breast cancer research.”
Another member of the Change and Check choir is the breast cancer campaigner and Future Dreams Ambassador, Helen Addis.