By Hinckley Times | Posted: 22 August, 2015
Cancer hospice LOROS is urging kind-hearted fundraisers to pull on their favourite sunshine hues to raise money for charity.
The Leicester-based charity is asking people countywide to dig out their yellow clothes and accessories for this year’s annual Yellow Day.
The event, which is happening during national Hospice Care Week, takes place on Friday October 9 and hopes to see thousands of people raising awareness and funds for LOROS by wearing yellow.
The money raised will go towards supporting terminally ill adults in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, such as Flick Cracknell, who died at LOROS following her battle with breast cancer.
Her daughter Fay said: “Mum was very positive about how much help LOROS could offer and I know she liked being there.
“The care was so different to anything we’d experienced elsewhere.”
Flick went into LOROS just before Christmas four years ago, after living with breast cancer for more than a decade.
“I was able to stay overnight there and I didn’t even have to ask if it was OK, I could just stay,” added Fay.
“When someone is terminally ill you don’t want to be told when you’re allowed to see them.
“Being able to come and go as you please is such a simple thing but it makes such a big difference.”
Each year LOROS Hospice needs to raise £4.5 million.
Five people paying £1 on Yellow Day could pay for a patient’s meals for one day. If 25 people pay £1 on Yellow Day, that could cover the cost of care for patients like Flick for one hour.
Meanwhile, 500 people paying £1 to wear yellow could help LOROS look after people like Flick for one day.
For more details visit loros.co.uk/yellow or call the LOROS Fundraising Team on (0116) 231 8431/2.
