This week I had to highlight some fantastic work by the staff of P&O Cruises. I know I’m not alone in being indirectly affected by Cancer, several of my friends have had the misfortune of being afflicted by this terrible disease and the older I get the more widespread it seems to be.
So I felt the need to give a big shout out this week to people who are actually trying to do something about it.
Charity fundraising by P&O Cruises has helped support the opening of a healing garden for people affected by cancer. Staff raised £25,000 to rebuild the garden and create a space for people visiting the Macmillan Cancer Information Centre at Southampton General Hospital.
Rachel Gascoigne, partnership manager at Macmillan, said:
“Cancer treatment can be an exhausting and overwhelming time. Thanks to P&O Cruises this garden has been transformed and is now a tranquil place where people can come to take time out and relax together”.
Activities such as a 65-mile walk around the Isle of Wight and coffee mornings throughout 2014 means the cruise line’s staff and crew have raised more than £964,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support over two years.
So I hope you’ll agree, well deserved congratulations are in order to the team at P&O, how many of us can say we’ve raised almost a million pounds for charity! On behalf of myself and more importantly my friends dealing with Cancer – thank you guys, keep up the good work, it doesn’t go unnoticed.
Bye for now.