Jill’s pink race to beat breast cancer
Press Release For immediate release: 9 August 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Jill’s pink race to beat breast cancer Local runner Jill Davison from Wideopen, Newcastle Upon Tyne has been pounding the pavements in training for this year’s Bupa Great North Run in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign. The Administration Manager at Newcastle City Council will join 54,000 runners on the starting line for the 13.1 mile race in Newcastle on Sunday 19 September to support her cousin, Nicola, who has breast cancer. Jill said: “I’m running to support my cousin and also as a personal challenge for myself. I want to help the excellent work of Breast Cancer Campaign, so I hope lots of people will dig deep to sponsor me for my running challenge and help the charity take a step closer to beating breast cancer.” Her husband is a chef at local restaurant As You Like It and they are also supporting the cause by helping Jill host a “Pink Ladies” night to raise funds. Friends and family will join Jill in a pink themed night of fun at the restaurant with a meal, raffles and games. Prizes up for grabs are courtesy of As You Like It, The Theatre Royal, Tyneside Cinema, and The Hair Lounge in Gosforth. To help Jill reach her fundraising target of £500 please visit www.justgiving.com/jilldavison2010 and donate what you can. Last year 300 Campaign runners wore their pink running vests with pride and raised a whopping £160,000 for vital breast cancer research. So if you have your own place in the race and would like to join Jill on Campaign’s team, please call the events team on 020 7749 3700 or email greatnorthrun@breastcancercampaign.org. All runners who sign up with Campaign will automatically become a member of Linford’s All Stars – an exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice. Runners will also receive a fundraising pack containing a Breast Cancer Campaign running vest and lots of fundraising ideas. Ends Picture caption: Jill Davison Notes to editors • Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure • Currently it supports 108 research projects, worth over £16.5 million, in 39 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland • Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women • In the UK, nearly 46,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 125 a day • Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org • Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/
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