Let them eat cake.....
Let them eat cake……!
A Bristol bakery is baking special cakes to help fund research into prostate cancer.
Redland Village Bakery is selling the cup cakes from all six of its shops in the Bristol area in support of the BUI Bristol prostate cancer Appeal and Run for the Future, which takes place on the Downs in Bristol on Sunday, 7 September.
A team of up to 20 from the bakery will also be taking part in the 5km event, which is organised by Bristol Rotarians.
The bakery owner, Andrew Grzybowska, was operated on for prostate cancer when he was just 46 - at the time he was the youngest person ever treated by Bristol surgeon Raj Persad. Support for Run for the Future has been organised by his wife Bernadette.
Staff in the bakery and shops have also made sure the shops have been displaying posters, encouraging customers to sign up for the Run, sponsor those taking part or pop money in collection boxes.
Prostate cancer affects more than 35,000 men in the UK every year, 10,000 of whom die, but there is no national screening programme. Men aged 50 have a one in 11 risk of getting prostate cancer and have to ask their GP for a PSA blood test to check if they have the disease.
Run for the Future has raised more than £100,000 over the past two years to fund a joint research project between the University of the West of England and the Bristol Urological Institute at Southmead Hospital. Part of the research is focussed on testing urine as an indicator of the disease.
The Run for the Future cup cakes will be on sale at Redland Village Bakery, Cotham Hill Bakery, Shirehampton Village Bakery, the Bread Shop in Staple Hill, the Bread Shop in Chandos Rose and the Bread Shop at Winterbourne, with 25p from each cake going towards the charity. More cup cakes will be baked for the day of the Run.
