Wear It Pink Day – Breast Cancer Care
Today, Friday 26th October is Wear It Pink Day in aid of Breast Cancer Care.
If you can, wear something pink and donate at least £2 to a great cause. Your donation will go towards research into cancer causes, and possible medicines to help fight the disease.
Just a simple gesture will help immensely.
Wear It Pink is the biggest event during Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) and since its launch the event has raised £6.6 million. This year, with your help, we are looking forward to the most successful Wear It Pink ever, so come and join the pink mania and take part in the original and best pink day.
Breast Cancer Campaign is the only charity that specialises in funding independent breast cancer research throughout the UK. Our research looks at improving diagnosis and treatment, better understanding how breast cancer develops and ultimately either curing the disease or preventing it.
Over the past 12 years the Charity has awarded 183 grants with a total value of over £18.5 million to universities, medical schools/teaching hospitals and research institutes across the UK and we currently fund 97 projects worth over £12.1 million.
Where will YOUR money go ?
£1, the suggested donation for a pink ribbon, will buy 20 pairs of gloves for Breast Cancer Campaign researchers to protect their hands while carrying out laboratory tests
£2.50 will buy 50 microscope slides so that Breast Cancer Campaign researchers can examine cells in minute detail
£8 provides a days worth of laboratory chemicals for a Breast Cancer Campaign funded scientist to use in experiments into possible cures for breast cancer
£17 will buy a Breast Cancer Campaign researcher a laboratory coat to protect him/her from dangerous chemicals during experiments
£20 will buy 500 test tubes so that a Breast Cancer Campaign researcher can carry out laboratory work
£25 provides a month’s supply of pipettes, essential for laboratory tests funded by Breast Cancer Campaign
£50 will provide a week’s worth of tissue culture to grow cells used in experiments funded by Breast Cancer Campaign
£1,000 provides the basic equipment that a Breast Cancer Campaign funded researcher needs to carry out scientific experiments
£15,000 will pay for a small pilot grant which funds a Breast Cancer Campaign scientist to explore whether a particular line of enquiry is worth pursuing in more depth, potentially leading to scientific breakthroughs.
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