Breast cancer awareness month at Cancerkin

Cancerkin has been busy helping to promote and celebrate the message of breast awareness this October.....

Last Friday, our East London Project Team was at the Bromley-By-Bow Community Centre to hold a breast awareness stall alongside its monthly complementary session for women with breast cancer living in East London. They handed out information and answered questions on being breast aware along with free pink iced cupcakes!



On Wednesday, we held our annual breast awareness stall at the Royal Free Hospital where the brand new edition of our ‘Being Breast Aware: a step-by-step guide to breast awareness’ booklet made its debut. The Cancerkin Team handed out the free publication and gave information to members of the public, patients and hospital staff. Alongside this, there were lots of lovely gifts, books and cakes on sale to raise funds for Cancerkin.



Thank you so much to all those who came along to support us and to those who volunteered their time and gave donations for the stall. We raised a record amount this year! We would especially like to thank Heidi Cleveley who donated some fantastic gifts, including tea sets, jewellery boxes and natural soaps. Thank you, Heidi!

Cancerkin’s final event to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month is nearly here – a night at the theatre for a performance of ‘The Last of The Duchess’ starring Sheila Hancock. We are looking forward to seeing our theatre goers down at the Hampstead Theatre on Monday 31st October 2011.

There will be an interval raffle on the evening with fantastic prizes, including a stay in a villa in Portugal, gifts from Floris London, dinner at Bradley’s restaurant and a hair cut at Daniel Adams Hairdressers. Tickets will be on sale throughout the reception at £5 each or 5 for £20.

As always, we so are grateful to those who support Cancerkin through their own fundraising drives and initiatives. If you would like to organise your own event in honour of Cancerkin during October, here are a few ideas: you could hold a cake sale at work; you could have a car boot sale at the weekend; or you could donate the proceeds of your eBay auction to Cancerkin. If you know of a local business or store that might like to hold a collection can or to plan a fundraiser for Cancerkin, then do get in touch. For more information, please contact Laura on l.smith@cancerkin.org.uk or 0207 830 2323.

Cancerkin's Hyde Park Walk Fundraisers at Floris

On 4th October 2011, the Cancerkin Team accompanied the three winners of our Hyde Park Walk top fundraisers competition on a trip to Floris, where they were presented with their prizes. Linda Cohen, Debra Franses Bean and Sue Glasser received gifts from Floris and Pizza Express, and were then shown around the historic premises and invited to tea with Marketing Director Edward Bodenham. We would like to thank Floris and Pizza Express for providing the prizes, and to thank Edward on behalf of our winners for his kind hospitality – a lovely afternoon was had by all!




In first place, raising £2,993.00, was Linda Cohen. A very close second was Debra Franses-Bean, who raised £2,698.75, and in third place was Sue Glasser, with £2,247.56. Well done to these wonderful women – we are so grateful for all the time and hard work they have put in. Thank you so much!