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'Wear it pink' Day 2006



Photos from Wear in Pink

Please send your 'Wear it pink' photographs to webteam@iow.gov.uk
and we'll add the best ones to our online gallery

Pupils from Archbishop King Middle School were pleased to be able to 'Wear it pink' to support the Breast Cancer Campaign
‘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

Pupils from Archbishop King Middle School were pleased to be able to 'Wear it pink' to support 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 Pupils from Archbishop King Middle School were pleased to be able to 'Wear it pink' to support the Breast Cancer Campaign 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

'Wear it Pink' Logo (Image Source: http://www.wearitpink.co.uk/index.php)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.

Breast Cancer Campaign Logo (Image Source: http://www.breastcancercampaign.org/) 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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