A charity founder will be dining out on tales of tea at Downing Street after being nominated as a mum-of-the-year.

Jacquie Roeder, 61, has worked for more than a decade to raise cash for research into teenage cancer.

He daughter Laura Crane, a Brighouse High School pupil, died from a mix of four types of cancer at the age of 17.

After her death Jacquie founded the Laura Crane Trust, which this year hopes to reach the £1 million fundraising mark.

Last year Jacquie's hard work was recognised when she was nominated and shortlisted, for Tesco magazine's Mum of the Year award.

And after a six-week trip to visit her new grandson in the US over Christmas Jacquie paid a visit to London to pick up her award.

She and her husband were met off the plane at Heathrow airport by a driver, who whisked them to the Waldorf hotel in London.

In her room Jacquie found flowers, champagne and chocolates along with a Charles Worthington hair grooming kit and the following morning a stylist at Charles Worthington visited Jacquie in her room and transformed her hair.

"It was lovely, really lovely," she said.

A complimentary outfit consisted of a skirt, jacket and camisole by designer brand Ghost and shoes from high street favourite Zara.

Jacquie was accompanied by her husband and son, a friend and two of Laura's friends.

"The room was bedecked with white drapes with pink ribbons round the chairs and pink lilies in tall vases," she said.

Each of the mums received their awards from dignitaries and celebrities, including Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's wife Sarah, Vanessa Feltz, Matthew Wright and stars of Hollyoaks and Emmerdale.

When it was Jacquie's turn to receive her trophy, a glass oval inscribed with her name and the award, organisers showed photographs of Laura before telling the crowd about the trust.

As an extra surprise, Jacquie was played a video of her colleagues at the trust celebrating her nomination.

Trust patron, comic actor Catherine Tate, also passed on her best wishes in the film.

Jacquie said it was a wonderful surprise, adding that the whole event had brought valued publicity to the trust.

The following morning Jacquie and her guests were invited by Mrs Brown to take tea at 11 Downing Street.

"We had a really lovely time," she said.