Leanne Pero, from London, criticised larger cancer organisations for not providing enough support to minority ethnic groups after being made an MBE at Windsor Castle. She was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list last year for her services to charity, particularly to minority ethnic people with cancer. Ms Pero told the PA news agency: “I never wanted to start a cancer charity – I’m creative, I run a dance company, I still run that dance company and I love it. “The fact that these women come through our doors and say ‘We’re not getting the right support anywhere else, no one else has offered us the right support’, for me, that means we’re still getting it wrong. She said she wanted to see more commitments from political parties to conduct research into cancer rates among minority ethnic groups to support her work.
