The Yorkshire Haven Breast cancer charity in Leeds are promoting breast cancer awareness month by lighting Leeds up Pink throughout October, several business and iconic buildings have switched their lighting to pink to support this national campaign. Nicola Burns the Yorkshire fundraiser at the Haven has been overwhelmed by the feedback she has received from buildings including The Queens Hotel, Bridgewater Place, Royal Armouries Museum, New Dock, O2 Academy,Leeds Arena, White Rose shopping Centre, Harvey Nichols, Trinity Shopping Centre, Trinity University, Khans Garage, St Johns shopping centre, JCT 600 Porsche,Scene bar park plaza hotel and Leeds Beckett University who have all lit up pink.
The Haven are asking the general public to tweet images of buildings lit pink with #leedslitpink #BCAM @haven_yorkshire to highlight Leeds fully supporting this national event. Anyone can get involved during the month of October and pink up their buildings and businesses and lets get Leeds fully behind this amazing event. The Haven is the only breast cancer charity providing free, one to one, tailored care and support to anyone affected by breast cancer, they working tandem with the NHS by offering complementary healthcare which works alongside mainstream medical treatment. A huge thank you to everyone who took part and there is still time to turn pink during the month of October, remember to tweet your images with #leedslitpink
The Yorkshire Haven is at 4-5 The Gateway West, East Street, Leeds LS9 8DA Call 0113 2847829 www.thehaven.org.uk
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