Breast Cancer Awareness – Wear it Pink day

Thursday 6th October 2022

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month so we thought we’d take part in not only raising the profile of the cause, but raise some funds for the Breast Cancer Now charity.

We held our ‘Wear it Pink’ fundraising day on Thursday 6th October at both our head office and Rosehill foodstore.

Drum roll, please …!

We raised a whopping £837.45.

We wore pink – pictured above is our sales support team who looked fantastic in their pink gear. A special prize was awarded to Joanne Hastings who looked amazing in her tutu!

Our foodstore customers were generous in their donations and we would like to extend our warmest thanks to everyone who donated on the day. Customers could also buy pink iced muffins and all proceeds were donated to the charity.

The bike challenge

We placed a static bike (decorated in pink balloons, of course) in our foodstore and we all took part in a cycling challenge. The resistance was turned up, we all donned the pink wig and high viz jacket and cycled flat-out for two minutes.

Whoever cycled the furthest distance, won the challenge. It was a tough one, but in the end there were three winners; Chris Nugent (Meat Buying Manager), Hayden Cutting (Fish Counter) and Jonnie Forbes (The Auctioneer) … well done, guys!

Here’s some photos and videos of all the action …

Competition winners

All colleagues took part in a ‘Guess the length of the butcher’s sausage’ competition. Michael Brown, warehouse supervisor, and his partner will be eating Cumberland sausage for a week now!

We also held a raffle with some fantastic prizes not only from our foodstore and The Auctioneer, but from Sweet Moments and Unilever.

Here are some of the lucky winners …

We would like to thank all our colleagues who took part in the challenges, donated, bought raffle tickets and organised the day. Not only did we raise awareness for something which has affected most people’s lives, but we had a really enjoyable time fundraising.

We are currently running special ‘Wear it Pink’ promotions for all our foodservice customers; for every offer bought we will make a donation to the charity.

Therefore, we will be announcing the grand total raised at the end of the month and handing over monies to a volunteer from Breast Cancer Now.

We would encourage you to take advantage of the special promotions, simply click the image below for further information.