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CHEADLE HULME AND BRAMHALL ARE IN THE PINK

Earlier this year we reported on this event, I thought you might like an update on the fantastic results. I’ll let Jo Hoddes take the story on - Throughout the whole month of May 2022, the wonderful communities and businesses of Cheadle Hulme and Bramhall came together to Paint the

Town Pink. The aim of the

Paint the Town Pink Campaign is a Prevent Breast Cancer initiative, to raise both vital funds and awareness. Both are crucial for life-saving research, screening, and treatment.

Painting the Town Pink for

Local Charity

Prevent Breast Cancer is a local Manchesterbased charity, operating from the Nightingale

Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital. Prevent Breast

Cancer is the ONLY UK charity committed solely to predicting and preventing the disease. Breast cancer prevention is more critical than ever before. Frighteningly, breast cancer is THE most common cancer in the UK. Around 1 in 9 women are affected in their lifetime. And not just women. Breast cancer can hit men, too.

Predict. Prevent. Protect.

With a determination to ‘Predict, Prevent,

Protect’, Prevent Breast Cancer’s invaluable work relies on people’s generosity and fundraising.

In common with all charities, those vital fundraising activities have taken a huge hit during two years of Covid-related uncertainty, restrictions and financial struggles.

A Community Comes Together

No wonder, then, that this year’s Paint Cheadle

Hulme and Bramhall Pink just HAD to be a success. And a success it was. With bells on.

Pink bells and ribbons. Over one hundred local businesses pulled together. Traders decorated their shops, restaurants and windows with pink paint, ribbon, balloons, or bunting – and sometimes a combination! Bars sold pink drinks, cakes and cocktails. Even estate agents found ways to be in the pink and both villages were awash with pink, in every shade imaginable. Cheadle Hulme bar, Inventery, raised over £1500 with the help of small, local businesses and pop-up market nights. Local boutiques Caro and Vanilla Fudge hosted a ladies’ evening and fashion show and raised £2,500.Cheshire Home Fragrance raised a whopping £1465 Well-established boutique Angela Beer raised £800.J Pimlott butchers all dressed in pink every Saturday throughout May and collected donations from their customers. The Long Bar hosted a Bonkers Bingo 80’s night. Local barber Maria Arianfar shaved her head and raised over £900. Cheadle Hulme School held a sustainable fashion show and Painted the School Pink to raise an incredible £8,000. Sue Day of Modiste got other Bramhall businesses involved in the Big Bramhall Raffle and raised £660. Pownall Green Primary School held a Race for Life and raised over £1,000. Guinot Bramhall introduced a special Paint Pink treatment and raised £358. Shrigley Rose Estate Agents went pink and raised over £500 with a coffee morning in the sumptuous showroom. With Thanks and Love to All Involved. Countless more residents, groups, businesses, schools, and volunteers all helped make the final, unprecedented, MAGNIFICENT total. We can’t thank them enough. Life’s not been easy for small businesses recently, either so please see our Instagram page and give all the local shops, bars and salons the love they deserve. That grand total – fanfare and drum roll please – stands at over £28,000. That’s a lot of money to help predict and prevent breast cancer and work to protect future generations. The money is invaluable, make no mistake. But can we reiterate just HOW important awareness is? Check your breasts. Get to know what’s normal for you. Notice any changes. Be aware of what to look out for. And never, ever be afraid to get checked out. Your life may just depend on it.