Preston car dealership Robins & Day is turbo charging its support for Rosemere Cancer Foundation with a pledge to make the charity its charity of the year for the second year in succession.
Over the last 12 months, the Blackpool Road company has raised £2,679.77 for Rosemere Cancer Foundation’s 20 Years Anniversary Appeal to fund a trio of ground-breaking projects at Rosemere Cancer Centre, Lancashire and South Cumbria’s specialist regional cancer treatment centre at the Royal Preston Hospital, to mark the 20th anniversary of the centre’s opening.
It achieved the sum by hosting a classic car show, making a donation on cars sold, organising a prize draw and sponsoring a staff team to cycle 170 miles coast to coast across the country.
The dealership’s initial aim was to break the £2,000 barrier and having achieved that with its latest cheque for £437, it has decided to continue fundraising for Rosemere Cancer Foundation throughout 2018 and into 2019.
Cathy Skidmore, Rosemere Cancer Foundation’s trust and corporate fundraising manager, said: “We would like to thank all staff and customers of Robins & Day for this turbo charged effort and for the company’s pledge of further support.
“The money it has raised for our 20 Years Anniversary Appeal has already helped to make a tremendous difference to the treatment some patients at the cancer centre have been able to receive and its continued support will help us to ensure that more local cancer patients can benefit from future improvements to treatments and services.”
Rosemere Cancer Foundation’s 20 Years Anniversary Appeal launched last March with a £1.5 million target. It has already brought the most advanced robotic surgical system on the market to the centre, the Da Vinci xi, making it the first in whole of the North of England and only one of three centres in the entire country to have such a piece of keyhole surgery kit.
It has also enabled the appointment of a cancer clinical trials co-ordinator to help better link Rosemere Cancer Centre with the worldwide quest to find new and improved treatments to combat cancer, while plans are being drawn up to refurbish the centre’s in-patient ward
