'Wear it pink' Day
‘Wear it pink’ is Breast Cancer Campaign’s biggest fundraising
event to take place during Breast
Cancer Awareness Month and has raised over £3.6 million since
its launch in 2003.
Breast Cancer Campaign is the only charity that specialises in funding
independent breast cancer research throughout the UK. They currently support
71 research projects, worth over £9.2 million in 47 locations across
the country. Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer with one
woman in nine being affected by it during her lifetime in the United Kingdom
alone.
Islanders were tickled pink to feel they were benefiting the Breast
Cancer Campaign
 This
year's national 'Wear it pink’ Day was held on Friday 27th October.
Several of the Island schools and many other businesses and organisations
across the Isle of Wight showed their support for this very worthy cause
by adnorning pink for the day.
A fun and simple way to raise funds for research into  breast
cancer; it didn't matter whether it was a pink tie or scarf that was worn
for the day or a full scale pink fluffy bear outfit; the £2 donation
collected from all of those who took part in this year's ‘Wear it
pink’ Day will go towards helping to research the all-important
cure for breast cancer.
As you will see from our online 'Wear it
pink' Day gallery many inventive Islanders really went to town in
showing their allegiance to 'Wear it pink' Day 2006, with posters, stickers,
balloons and everything required to make the one-day event a huge success
available from the official
'Wear it pink' website.
Helping find a cure to get sufferers back in the pink
 Organisers
Breast Cancer Campaign are hoping to raise a total of 2.1 million pounds
as a result of our efforts across the whole of the UK this year, which
means that a real difference can be made in progressing our on-going battle
against this dilapidating disease.
For information on how you can send in the money you have raised, please
visit the 'make
a donation page' on the official 'Wear it pink' website. There you
will find a secure online payment page where you can send your contributions
directly to the organisers online and details of how you can pay at the
bank, by post and over the telephone. Once you have sent in your donation
via your chosen method, you will receive a certificate to thank you for
your support.
 The logo for
Breast Cancer Campaign is the jigsaw piece because it symbolises the missing
pieces of the puzzle which are the cure for breast cancer. In the same
way that breast cancer is not one disease, there will not be one cure.
Each research project is another piece of the puzzle and it is sincerely
hoped that the opportunity will ultimately exist for all women with breast
cancer to be issued with effective diagnosis and treatment, eventually
helping to prevent the disease once and for all.
Well done to all of those Islanders who took part in this year's 'Wear
it pink' Day; remember to make a note of Friday 26th October
for next years event!
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