Town tickled pink by fundraising record

OCTOBER’S annual Pink Up Linton campaign has raised a record amount of money for the McGrath Foundation.

Cristine Gall and her staff at the Linton Takeaway raised $2645.55 throughout the month.

A dollar from each hot beverage sold was donated to the charity, as were the proceeds from a raffle, referendum voting day sausage sizzle, and a pink morning tea.

“We’d like to thank everyone who supported Pink Up Linton this year, those who donated money and prizes,” Ms Gall said.

“Every year we’ve broken the fundraising record. We’re looking forward to next year and going further.”

The foundation funds more than 200 breast care nurses in cancer centres across the country, who provide specialist health and wellbeing support to both patients and their families.

It is the charity’s goal to fund 250 nurses by 2025.

“On behalf of the McGrath Foundation, we would like to thank the Linton community for their incredible fundraising efforts during the recent Pink Up Linton fundraising campaign,” a letter from ambassador and director, Tracy Bevan said.

“Pink Up Your Town is an opportunity for communities to turn pink in solidarity with people experiencing breast cancer, whilst also supporting the McGrath Foundation in our goal.

“To date, our 204 McGrath breast care nurses have helped support over 127,000 families in Australia experiencing breast cancer.

“It is thanks to the commitment of amazing communities like Linton, who ‘pinked up’ for the third year this year, that we’re able to continue funding McGrath breast care nurses to support families experiencing breast cancer across Australia, for free, taking us even closer to our mission of ensuring everyone experiencing breast cancer has access to a breast care nurse.”