Wear It Pink this October

I am writing to ask everybody in Peterborough 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 gladrags 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 140 women in Peterborough are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and around 30 women in Peterborough 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 Peterborough can get involved – either at school, at work, with friends or in the local community. You could try a wacky 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 269 fundraisers across Peterborough got involved in Wear It Pink and raised an incredible £21,934 for Breast Cancer Now’s cutting-edge breast cancer research. We hope we see lots of people in Peterborough 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