I’m dedicating our blog space today to Ovarian Cancer Awareness, and I’m going to let the wonderful Bella, founder of Good Morning Beautiful tell you why. Might I also say right now, that every lady needs a Good Morning Beautiful gown – and they make beautiful gifts too. Also, Bella’s wedding featured on Love My Dress last year, and it was beautiful. Over to you Bella.
A few months ago we were contacted by Ovarian Cancer Action to ask if we’d be willing to donate a percentage of our March sales to raise awareness – and vital funds – for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
We immediately said yes, because whilst our products are all about making women feel beautiful, we want to do our bit to help look after them, too. However, when we started to research the disease we were shocked. We had no idea how low levels of awareness are – and just how prevalent the disease is.
Ovarian cancer is the UK’s most deadly gynaecological disease, yet symptoms awareness is poor and diagnosis is often too late for treatment to be effective.
Today, a woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer has only a 46% chance of being alive in five years’ time.
To help raise symptoms awareness and vital funds for research, we, along with various other brands, will be donating 10% of every sale during the month of March directly to Ovarian Cancer Action.
Ovarian Cancer Action has been funding world-class scientific research since 2006 and campaigns to ensure women and healthcare providers know the risk factors, symptoms and treatment options to enable informed and rapid action.
We always said we’re not going to change the world with a dressing gown, but if our raising awareness of this disease makes even one woman talk to her doctor about her health we’ll be on our way.
To donate directly to Ovarian Cancer Action and find out more about the symptoms and risk factors please see here ovarian.org.uk.
The entire Good Morning beautiful range is available at goodmorningbeautiful.co.uk.
Bella
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