Wear it Pink

05.10.05

Edward Davey MP has come out in support of Breast Cancer Campaign’s (BCC) award wining national ‘wear it pink®’ day on 28 October, the last Friday of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Edward Davey wants to encourage people in Kingston and Surbiton and others across the country to wear an item of pink on 28 October and donate £2 to BCC, the only charity that specialises in funding independent breast cancer research throughout the UK.

Commenting, Edward Davey MP said,

“Every year over 13,000 people in the UK die from breast cancer. I’ve had friends and relatives who have suffered with breast cancer. That’s why I’m urging people to back the campaign. The money raised on this day is essential for the Charity, as it will continue to help fund its breast cancer research at centres of excellence across the country.

All types of people, companies, schools, universities, clubs, associations and local authorities throughout the UK took part in 2004, making it the most successful BCC fundraising event ever, raising over £1.3 million in just one day and winning the UK Charity Award for ‘Fundraising Campaign of the Year’!

The money raised goes towards valuable medical research to help the one woman in nine in the UK, who will be affected by this disease in her lifetime."