Barrowford shop owner gift wraps to raise money for cancer charity.
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Andrea Pinder, owner of the Presentations Cards and Gifts shop in Barrowford, North East of Blackburn in the Pendle district of Lancashire, has raised £1,000 for the Rosemere Cancer Foundation by offering her customers a free gift-wrapping service.
In return for the gift wrapping, shoppers were given the option of donating to Rosemere.
Andrea said: “No gift leaves here unwrapped unless the customer wishes to wrap it themselves. I buy all the paper and ribbons and do the wrapping.
"Customers have the option of making a donation for the service if they wish and I am very grateful to all those who did.”
As well as the donation to Rosemere, Andrea was handed over £250 to Pendleside Hospice from the same gift-wrapping pot.
Fundraising manager for Rosemere Cancer Foundation, Sue Swire, said: “Gift wrapping is a real skill that a lot of us struggle with.
“Obviously, it is something Andrea is very good at judging by her impressed customers’ donations!
"We are very grateful to Andrea for going this extra mile for us. We are also very grateful to her customers for essentially gifting to us when buying gifts for their loved ones.”
Keen cyclist Andrea is a longstanding Rosemere Cancer Foundation supporter and no stranger to using her hobby to help her raise further funds for the charity.
She has undertaken gruelling sponsored cycle challenges in India and Cuba to raise funds, as well as tackled peaks and troughs closer to home as a participant in the Ribble Valley Ride.
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. It is Lancashire and South Cumbria’s specialist cancer treatment and radiotherapy centre at the Royal Preston Hospital, and at another eight local hospital cancer units across the two counties, including those at Burnley General and Royal Blackburn Hospitals.