Exeter Dental Practice’s Sunflower Growing Competition Raises Hundreds for Age UK
A dental practice in Exeter has raised hundreds of pounds for Age UK by running a competition to grow the tallest sunflowers.
Life Dental and Wellbeing launched the enormous sunflower growing competition in partnership with Age UK’s allotment project, which is designed to bring older people together in Exeter.
As part of the project, more than 850 sunflowers were expertly nurtured by schools, local businesses, individuals and community groups. In total, a sum of more than £850 was raised for the charity.
Age UK Exeter’s fundraising manager, Jacqui Cornish, said that Life Dental and wellbeing had come up with the idea, which was a great success and something lots of local people were keen to get involved with. The Budding Friends project is aimed at people with dementia and their carers and families. Getting out into gardens and allotments can have amazing benefits for older people, and this competition was a way to bring people together and encourage them to embrace a popular hobby.
Practice owner Ben Pearson said the team was eager to support the charity and the competition was great fun. Research shows an increasingly significant link between poor oral health and dementia, so this is a project that is of great interest to the practice.
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