12 December 2011

Tablet is recipe for cancer fundraising success

Photo opportunity - 1pm, Tuesday December 13th.
Main reception, Ninewells.

Breast cancer researchers in Dundee will be presented with a cheque for over £4000 tomorrow (Tuesday), all thanks to one woman's magic tablet.

Mrs Fiona Edwards, a receptionist in the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has raised many thousands of pounds in recent years by selling her homemade tablet at running events around Tayside and Fife.

Over the past year she has made sales of around £4200, which she will hand over to Professor Alastair Thompson at the University of Dundee Medical School at Ninewells on Tuesday December 13th.

'This has been another big year for me and I must say a big thank you once again to all of the people who have bought - and hopefully enjoyed! - the tablet,' said Fiona. 'I've had lots of support again this year, from runners at events right across Tayside, students at the University, people at my gym and all over.

'I've also had orders for wedding favours including one between Christmas and New Year where I am supplying 500 squares of tablet. All of that money goes towards breast cancer research.'

Fiona has now raised £25,000, including gift aid, since she started selling tablet in 2003.

'We are hugely indebted to Fiona for the magnificent contribution she makes to supporting cancer research, and breast cancer in particular,' said Professor Thompson, who is an internationally-renowned researcher in breast cancer.

'I can also vouch for the quality of the tablet, which is delicious!'

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