'Relief packs' for NHS frontline staff donated by Burnley and Pendle charities and businesses

Burnley and Pendle businesses have been donating items for NHS frontline staff, which is being co-ordinated by Rosemere Cancer Foundation.
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Among the toiletries, snacks gifted by Rosemere Cancer Foundation’s coffee shop, hand creams and other goods were socks donated by Burnley’s online fashion store Boohoo.com and Lipmate lip balms gifted by manufacturer Nelson company Concept Plastics Group Ltd.

All the items were stored and packed at storage solutions company Brysdales, which donated free space at its Britannia Buildings complex in Drumhead Road, Chorley. It also gifted 2,500 plastic tote bags and enabled staff to help with the pack and delivery to hospital sites.

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Louise Grant, Rosemere's East Lancashire fund-raising co-ordinator, joined a socially distanced assembly line to help pack 32,000 donated items into 4,000 welfare packs for local NHS frontline staff.

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She said: “My usual focus is working to help local cancer patients but I was asked to help support the NHS heroes working at the frontline within local hospitals by joining a team of charity colleagues building welfare packs for them with items donated by a number of businesses and individuals.

“Given the sacrifices those at the frontline are making during this unprecedented health crisis, it was a privilege to be part of the assembly line.”

Rosemere Cancer Foundation works to bring world class cancer treatments and services to cancer patients from throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria being treated at Rosemere Cancer Centre, the region’s specialist cancer treatment centre at the Royal Preston Hospital, and at another eight local hospital cancer units across the two counties, including those at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General Teaching Hospitals.

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The charity funds cutting edge equipment, research, training and other cancer services and therapies that the NHS is unable to afford. For further information on its work, including how to make a donation, visit www.rosemere.org.uk