DAILY Echo blogger Nikki Hastings is one of the new faces of Breast Cancer Care.

Nikki, 37, has been recruited as an ambassador of the charity and will now be the driving force behind fundraising in the Bournemouth area.

She has recruited six other female friends to join her and the group will meet for the first time next week.

Nikki, who lives with husband Kev and daughters Leah, six, and Megan, four, was told she had just months to live when she was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer.

But more than two years on, doctors say Nikki’s cancer is stable for the moment after a trial drug reduced the cancer affecting her body by 69 per cent.

She still visits the hospital for regular scans and checks.

Shortly after being diagnosed with cancer, Nikki agreed for her very personal and honest journal to be published on the Daily Echo website.

Speaking yesterday, Nikki said Breast Cancer Care asked her to become a fundraising group leader for the charity to help raise cash and awareness of the charity and its work.

She said she is looking forward to the challenge.

“I think it will be a really good thing to do. I am quite fired up about it,” she said.

Breast Cancer Care offers a wide range of services including a 24-hour free helpline run by trained staff.

It also runs a series of forums on its website which are moderated by trained nurses.

The charity runs workshops up and down the country for cancer sufferers and its Headstrong service to help women deal with losing their hair.

Breast Cancer Care’s area fundraiser Lisa Anderson is keen to hear from anyone who would like to start a fundraising group or join an existing one in the Bournemouth and Poole areas.

Contact her via email at lisa.anderson@breastcancercare.org.uk or call 0207 960 3590.