We have launched a new initiative – Hospitality Helps – aiming to bring hospitality businesses across the northwest region together to fundraise for cancer charities working in the area. Its first charity partner will be Prevent Breast Cancer, the only UK charity focused on prediction and prevention of the disease.

Around 55,000 women a year are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK, making it the most common cancer in the country. That includes around 10,000 aged under 50 who are diagnosed with the disease every year. With over 3.2 million people working in the hospitality sector nationally – of whom 60 per cent are women – breast cancer has the potential to impact tens of thousands of hospitality workers across the UK.

Hospitality Helps will be an ongoing initiative organised by the Tim Bacon Foundation aimed at harnessing the power of the hospitality sector to support regional good causes.

Hospitality Helps….Prevent Breast Cancer is a campaign created and managed in partnership with the Tim Bacon Foundation in support of Prevent Breast Cancer.

• 80% of the funds raised from the campaign will be donated to Prevent Breast Cancer (Registered Charity No: 1109839) to support the building of National Breast Imaging Academy.

• 20% of the funds raised will support Tim Bacon Foundation (Registered Charity No: 1173108)