Appeal Launch - we're off

Over 50 members of the local press, fundraisers, 3 Mayors and 3 Mayoresses, cancer support agencies, doctors and surgeons, radiographers and supporters of Dorset County Hospital as well as hospital Governors and  Non-Executive Directors joined forces with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust staff for the launch of the Hospital Charity's 2011 Digital Mammography Appeal.

And over £120 was raised on the day alone. 

Following the press launch, members of the public who heard about it first on Wessex FM and then read about it in the Dorset Echo rang to pledge money and send in cheques.  Before the fundraising team had even got back to the Hospital, messages of support were flooding in to the office. 

"It's a terrific start", said Wendy Nightingale, Chair of the Appeal.  "It was wonderful to see so many influential people get behind the appeal and commit to helping us to buy this esential piece of equipment."

Thank you Dorset!

 Wendy Nightingale and Roderick Knight Chair of the Hospital Charitable Fund

  The wonderful Mayors and Mayoresses from Dorchester, Blandford Forum and Portland who were generous with their time and money for the Appeal.

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