Wear it pink for breast cancer research

I am writing to ask everybody in Exeter to join us this October and take part in the UK’s biggest and boldest pink fundraiser, wear it pink.

Wear it pink takes place on Friday 19 October, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to raise funds for Breast Cancer Now’s vital research.

To take part, all you need to do is ditch your everyday colours and dig out your pink glad rags or favourite pink items for one day, and fundraise to help Breast Cancer Now achieve its aim that by 2050, everyone who develops breast cancer will live - and live well.

Breast Cancer is still the most common cancer in the UK. Around 110 women in Exeter are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and around 20 women in Exeter devastatingly lose their lives to the disease.

Everyone and anyone can take part in wear it pink, and there are lots of ways the readers in Exeter can get involved – either at school, at work, with friends or in the local community. You could try a whacky pink outfit competition at work, host a pink party with friends, hold a pink bake sale in the community, or organise a pink themed non-uniform day at school. Visit wearitpink.org to sign up and get fun ideas for your fundraising.

Last year 124 fundraisers across Exeter got involved in wear it pink and raised an incredible £9,790 for Breast Cancer Now’s cutting-edge breast cancer research. We hope we see lots of people in Exeter sign up, pull on your pink, and fundraise for Breast Cancer Now this year. By taking part in wear it pink you are helping us get one step closer to stopping breast cancer taking the lives of those we love.

Lottie Barnden,
Wear it pink Senior Manager at Breast Cancer Now