Pink Party High Tea to help Tauranga mum with cancer

Tauranga mum of three Katrina Bell was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Photos/Supplied.

Tauranga mum of three Katrina Bell was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and has since had a double mastectomy and reconstruction surgery.

Next Sunday, her friends are hosting a Pink Party High Tea fundraiser to help her with the financial burden of having cancer.

New Tauranga-based Labour list MP Angie Warren-Clark is the host of the event, which will run from 2pm to 5pm at a private property.

There will be guest speakers, a singer, spot prizes, a raffle and a silent auction.

Organisers were selling 40 tickets at $45 each and last night there were only four left.

"Going through cancer isn't cheap with all the doctor visits, special food and other costs we don't even think about," one of the event organisers, Melissa Howell, said.

"So it would be nice to gift a little bit of money to the family just before Christmas."

She said when she found out about Katrina, she wanted to do something to help.

"The thing I love about Katrina is she hasn't let this get to her, she's just been positive throughout the whole thing - about the whole cancer journey - and she uses humour to get her through it but at the same time she's very honest and real," Mrs Howell said.

"She's just amazing, she's inspiring."

When Katrina found out about the event and what her friends had organised, she said: "I really have no words that are ever going to say exactly how I feel about what's happening.

"But thank you all so much, it's very, very overwhelming and I can't say thank you enough. I'm blown away at the amount of effort [that has] gone into this, if I didn't know who it was for I would think it was for the Queen. You are all amazing humans."

Katrina also has her partner Luke and her three children Portia, 9, Kayde, 5, and Casey, 2, supporting her.