Burnley dental practice selects local cancer foundation as its charity of the year
A dental practice in Burnley is lending it support to a cancer foundation over the coming months. The team at Briercliffe Road Dental Practice has chosen the Rosemere Cancer Foundation as its charity of the year for 2017.
The team has already hosted a raffle, which raised more than £160, and members of staff are now limbering up for Rosemere Cancer Foundation’s Annual Walk in the Dark, which will take place in April. The charity walk, which takes place at night, involves tackling an 11-mile route in fancy dress. The Briercliffe team has elected to dress up in neon tutus.
Dawn Greenwood, practice manager, will be joined by nurse and trainee dental nurse, Danielle Dodgson and Claire Smith, practice administrator, Julie Pratt and Bridget Doherty, the practice’s hygienist, to take on the walk.
There are also plans to host a competition to win a luxury hamper, and the proceeds of funds raised by selling handmade cards will also be donated to the foundation.
Dawn said that the idea to support Rosemere came about when Frank Dinsdale one of the patients, who does a lot of work for the charity, asked if he could put a donation box out in reception. This got the team thinking, and they decided to start a charity of the year initiative with Rosemere cancer Foundation as their inaugural choice. The charity has also provided support for a colleague in the past, so it was a choice welcomed by everyone. Everyone is looking forward to the walk, and hoping that it raises plenty of money for a really worthy cause.
East Lancashire funding coordinator for the foundation, Louise Grant, thanked the practice team for choosing to support the charity, and also Frank, who made it possible.
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