Chocolatiers aim to give cancer the boot
SANTA is about to give a cancer charity some welly thanks to a Mawdesley husband and wife team of awardwinning chocolatiers.
Paul and Jacqui Williams, of Choc Amor, which has its studios and visitor shop at Cedar Farm Galleries, are exhibiting at a new autumn food and drink fair that is also raising money for Rosemere Cancer Foundation.
The couple will be unveiling their 2018 Christmas range, which includes a chocolate Santa welly.
For Jacqui, it is an especially appropriate design because she is also battling to give cancer the boot after being diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year.
She is receiving chemotherapy treatment in the new Rosemere Cancer Foundation funded chemotherapy unit at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital.
Paul, who in a show of support for Jacqui raised £2,700 for the CoppaFeel! Breast cancer charity earlier this year by shaving off his hair and beard, said: “We are at this event to support Rosemere Cancer Foundation for the work it does to help local cancer patients and will be donating one of our wellies for the raffle that’s planned.”
The couple launched Choc Amor six and a half years ago in Tarleton, although Paul’s career background is in finance and Jacqui’s in textiles.
They will also be showcasing other treats from their range, which has 38 awards to its name, at the food and drink fair.
Among them are three world International Chocolate Awards and 15 Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste awards.
This year’s world chocolate championships are being staged in Florence later this month and will again include Choc Amor products, which will be available for taste testing at the Rosemere Cancer Foundation food and drink fair.
The event takes place from 10am to 4pm this Sunday, October 21, at the famed Inn at Whitewell – near clitheroe in the Forest of Bowland – which is said to be the Queen’s local when she stays at her nearby estate on visits to the county.
Entry is free although there will be an opportunity to make a donation to Rosemere Cancer Foundation and buy fundraising raffle tickets.
Gillian Bartlett, who is organising the fair with Inn at Whitewell chef Ian Crowther, said: “We had space for 24 food and drink exhibitor stands and all that space is now sold out, so we have a great offering of really wonderful seasonal produce from the best local food and drink producers around.”
Rosemere Cancer Foundation works to bring world class cancer treatments and services to people being treated at Rosemere Cancer Centre, the region’s specialist cancer treatment centre at the Royal Preston Hospital, and also at another eight local hospitals including Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, where Jacqui is being treated.