Rose Lodge residents and staff in Wisbech joined in with celebrating Wear It Pink Day during Breast Cancer Awareness Month along with hundreds of thousands of other people across the UK raising valuable funds for breast cancer research.
Wear It Pink is a Breast Cancer awareness campaign which has so far raised £31.5million for breast cancer since the campaign started in 2002. Schools, businesses and families get together to eat, wear and make something pink in order to raise money for breast cancer.
The residents tucked into their favourite pink treats made by the home’s chef with help from friends, family, staff and residents! Everyone in the home, including the carers all added something pink to their outfits to celebrate the day.
They were also delighted to join the local community at the Rosmini Centre.
Ethel, a resident at Rose Lodge said: "Wear It Pink Day is a great opportunity for us to invite our friends and family to the home as long as they are up for wearing and eating something pink! We love to get involved knowing that it is going to such a great cause."
Meg Jones, general manager at Rose Lodge, said: "It’s great to see everyone getting so involved in Wear It Pink Day. We all loved it when friends and family join the home for an afternoon of fun, pink and fundraising."
Rose Lodge care home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering personalised care across its care homes and hospitals. Rose Lodge provides residential care, nursing care and dementia care for 56 residents from respite care to long term stays.
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