College in the Pink
Posted on Tuesday 1 November 2005
Students at the Sixth Form College Farnborough get in the Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
Students at the Sixth Form College Farnborough all got in the Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Day on Friday 21st October. There was pink hair, tops and bags, and that was just the boys!
Many of the 2,600 students wore something pink and Jo and Gary Mayne of Candy Floss Carts added to the fun by providing pink Candy Floss, with all the proceeds going to Breast Cancer Awareness. They alone raised over £400, which will add to the many donations collected around the college by the pinkest of the students amounting to nearly £800.
‘We’ve had a brilliant day, it may well have broken our previous fund raising records. There are lots of happy faces and people in pink. I think today really has managed to raise awareness’, said Philip Gradwell, 17, of Camberley, the Student President.
Millie Schurch, 17, of Guildford, is the Students’ Charities officer. She was thrilled by the success: ‘‘I have had an excellent day and it has been so wonderful to see so many of the students taking part in raising so much money and awareness for such an important cause’, she said.
“The donation of candy floss by Jo and Gary Mayne was particularly brilliant”, she added.
However, the day was not just about candy floss and colours, information about Breast Cancer was openly available and the importance of early detection was vitally raised among the young adults of the college. All-in-all a serious issue was made accessible and lots of money was raised in a great carnival atmosphere at the Sixth Form College.
