Actress Kate Copstick attacked and robbed of charity money

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 An entertainer was gone after external her home by two men in balaclavas who took £8,500 in cause cash she had raised.

Kate Copstick, from Glasgow, was relatively close to her property in Shepherd's Bush, London, when the men pursued her on Saturday.

The 66-year-old said they put her in a strangle hold and kicked her to the ground while attempting to snatch her pack.

It contained an envelope of cash for the cause Mama Biashara which helps ladies in neediness in Kenya.

Ms Copstick has functioned as an entertainer, moderator and humorist, dealing with kids' TV shows Playschool and No.73 during the 1980s and ChuckleVision during the 1990s.

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Addressing the BBC about the occurrence over the course of the end of the week, she said she was strolling down the road when she heard individuals running towards her.

As she turned, she said she saw men wearing balaclavas and dressed totally in dark.

"I wound up on the ground and they just wouldn't give up until they ripped the rucksack off me," she told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland program.

"My telephone was on the ground, there were small amounts of money on the ground, my bank cards - yet they wouldn't give up."

'I will not be heading back home'

Ms Copstick set up the foundation Mama Biashara in 2008 and works with Kenyan ladies who face outrageous neediness.

It gives little awards to ladies who can set up organizations and has likewise fabricated a kids' home and upheld water-gathering arrangements in districts hit by dry spell.

Anyway Ms Copstick said she had encountered issues sending cash to the country, which was the reason she was conveying cash.

She was because of movement to the country on Monday and has proceeded her excursion - however she added: "I will not be heading back home for a long while."

Ms Copstick said she detailed the make a difference to police. In the interim a gathering pledges page set up by companions following the episode has since raised more than £11,500.

The Metropolitan Police said they went to at around 20:30, and investigations into the conditions keep, "counting work to get any suitable CCTV proof".

Anybody with data on the occurrence has been encouraged to reach them by means of 101.