KESTREL HOUSE IS PROUD TO BE LOUD!

Staff and residents of Bupa’s Kestrel House Nursing Centre, Willingdon Road, Eastbourne, are proud to be holding a BE LOUD event on Friday 29 January at 11.00am for Beating Bowel Cancer’s 2010 campaign. Staff will be wearing loud clothes and the home will host a coffee morning with a cake sale and a raffle. Employees are keen to raise awareness and funds for the charity as the home’s activity co-ordinator, Gill Cordingley, has lost a member of her family to bowel cancer. Jackie O’Callaghan, home manager at Bupa’s Kestrel House Nursing Centre, says: “I really am proud of the team in their efforts and motivation to make this day happen. I’m sure the event will be great fun and hopefully we’ll raise lots of money for this worthy cause.” The home will help raise much needed funds to fight bowel cancer, the UK’s second biggest killer cancer, which claims almost 50 lives every day. BE LOUD is Beating Bowel Cancer’s annual fundraising campaign, (which falls between Monday 25 January to Sunday 31 January this year). The campaign challenges people to have fun in the LOUDEST and most outrageous clothes they can find, whilst raising funds and awareness for Beating Bowel Cancer. There is a serious message behind the charity’s light-hearted fundraising initiative; bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK. Each year more than 37,500 people are diagnosed with the disease and it will affect 1 in 18 people during their lifetime. It’s estimated that around 90% of bowel cancer cases could be treated successfully if caught at an early stage, but many people are often embarrassed to discuss their symptoms and delay seeking medical advice. Beating Bowel Cancer wants the BE LOUD campaign not only to raise much needed funds, but also to raise awareness of the disease, to promote equal access for all to the latest bowel cancer treatments, and to encourage people to talk ‘out loud’ about bowel cancer. If you would like to take part in ‘BE LOUD 2010’ please call 020 8973 0019, log onto www.beatingbowelcancer.org to download fundraising materials, or email angela@beatingbowelcancer.org. For further event information please contact the home on: 01323 431199.