OLD GATES IS PROUD TO BE LOUD!

Staff and residents of Bupa’s Old Gates Residential and Nursing Home, Feniscowles, Burnley, are proud to be holding a BE LOUD event on Wednesday 27 January at 2.00pm for Beating Bowel Cancer’s 2010 campaign. The home will be holding a BE LOUD BE CLEAR event with a number of stalls, including a teddy bear and cake stall. A raffle will be held and refreshments served. Staff and residents are being encouraged to dress up in loud and wacky clothes to support the cause. The event will help raise much needed funds to fight bowel cancer, the UK’s second biggest killer cancer, which claims almost 50 lives every day. Lisa Holt, home manager at Bupa’s Old Gates Residential and Nursing Home, says: “I really am proud of the team’s effort and motivation to make this day happen. I’m sure the event will be great fun and hopefully we’ll raise a lot of money for this worthy cause.” BE LOUD is Beating Bowel Cancer’s annual fundraising campaign, (which falls between Monday 25 January and 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 information on Old Gates Residential and Nursing Home’s event please call 01254 209924.