Local school scoops charity fundraising award

5/23/2011 10:43 AM EST

Press release

For immediate release: Monday 23 May 2011
Press contact: Marilena Patuto, 020 7749 3720  

A local girl’s school has won Breast Cancer Campaign’s ‘School of the Year’ award after raising over £4000 to help the charity continue funding research into the disease.

Pembridge Hall school in Notting Hill scooped the award in recognition of their fundraising efforts last year. The school held two ‘Pink Days’ last year, where staff, parents and students came to school dressed in pink for the day. There was a special tea and cakes afternoon for all involved, with donations being made to the charity.

Mr Barry Evans, headmaster at Pembridge School, said: “We are honoured to have won this award and it is a great achievement for all involved in the preparation and taking part in the day itself. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and we are proud to raise awareness and help fund research into the disease.”

Pamela Goldberg, Breast Cancer Campaign’s Chief Executive said: “Congratulations to Pembridge Hall school for winning this prestigious award for their outstanding fundraising. It is thanks to the continued support and commitment from people such as the staff, parents and pupils at Pembridge Hall that we are able to fund innovative world-class research to help us improve the lives of breast cancer patients and beat the disease.”

Mr Evans and parents who helped organise the event were presented with the award at Breast Cancer Campaign’s awards ceremony on Thursday 19 May 2011 at the House of Lords.

If you want to be in the running for next year’s award, then contact the charity to find out how you can help beat breast cancer. Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org, call 020 7749 4114 or email  

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Photo: Mr Barry Evans and Elizabeth Porteous accept the award from The Baroness Fookes of Plymouth, DBE DL, Patron of Breast Cancer Campaign and sponsoring peer.

Notes to editors
• Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure.
• Currently it supports 97 research projects, worth over £16.7 million, in 31 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland
• Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women
• In the UK, nearly 48,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year – that’s 125 a day
• Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org
• Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/
• The Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank, the UK’s first ever national breast cancer tissue bank, is a unique collaboration with four leading research institutions to create a vital resource of breast cancer tissue for researchers across the UK and Ireland. Visit www.breastcancertissuebank.org