Bakery’s tasty treat for hospice
A BAKERY has donated selection of products to staff at a children’s hospice.
Accrington-based food firm, Clayton Park Bakery made the donation to Derian House Children’s Hospice in Chorley.
The donation was made on behalf of The Alfie Lund Fund, which raises money for Alfie Lund, who is one of only a handful of children in the UK and approximately 120 in the world suffering from MECP2 duplication syndrome.
It is a rare chromosome abnormality with common features including hypotonia (floppiness or low muscle tone), absent or little speech, severe learning difficulty, progressive neurological conditions such as seizures and increased muscle spasticity, recurrent chest infections and pneumonia, plus more.
The fundraising allows for specialist equipment for Alfie to meet his therapy needs and to give him a more comfortable life.
Alfie regularly attends Derian House Children’s Hospice and after
Clayton Park Bakery offered to send Alfie, his dad Mark and The Alfie Lund Fund a variety of their products, they instead asked if it could be donated to staff and nurses at the hospice.
Clayton Park Bakery’s business development manager, Mark Ashworth, visited Derian House in Chorley to deliver the products to excited staff, with the delivery including Clayton Park’s famous pies, as well as a variety of their cream cakes.
Mark Ashworth, Business Development Manager at Clayton Park Bakery, said: “It was a great honour to be able to deliver a number of our products to staff and nurses at Derian House Children’s Hospice on behalf of The Alfie Lund Fund.
“The work they do at Derian House is amazing and we hope this has gone a little way to supporting their incredible staff.”
Founded in 1995, Clayton Park began by
selling pies and sausage rolls from their stall Greens at Blackburn Market.
The firm employs more
than 220 staff including some of the most skilled bakers in the country.
For more information about Clayton Park
Bakery and their delicious range of baked goods, visit their website www.pietastic.com
You can learn more
about The Alfie Lund Fund and how you can donate by visiting: https://www. thealfielundfund.co.uk/