Ok, it is officially winter, and yes it is freezing. I find it a bit difficult these days to get myself doing anything but wrapping up warm and relax; my bed is my favourite and most attended place these days. Kind of getting into the Xmas spirit too, so thinking about decorations, presents, parties... oh parties, just brings back memories, oh well it was not that long ago, but here I am to share it with you: my night out with FTBC
I am going to be blatantly honest, not heard about them before (please forgive my ignorance), but it turns out that Fashion Targets Breast Cancer (FTBC) was established in 1994 by Ralph Lauren, after his friend Nina Hyde, Fashion Editor of the Washington Post, died of breast cancer.
In 1996, FTBC was launched in the UK by Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
The money collected by FTBC is going towards research, education and campaigning. What they achieved since 1996 is absolutely impressive and purely amazing: they opened and funded the UK’s first dedicated breast cancer research centre, which now houses over 120 world-class scientists, they also developed new drugs that can treat different types of breast cancer, and this is just few of all the fantastic work they do.
They raised over £10.5 million for Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s vital research, campaigning and education work with the help of supporters and sponsors such as i.e. Mario Testino, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Gisele, Helena Christensen and Lily Cole; M&S, Whistles, Warehouse, Superdry, TOPSHOP, River Island etc.
But let's just go back to the party bit ;)
I found quite a lot of 'cyber' friends on Twitter lately, and amongst these one of the sweetest fashion blogger is definitely Little Miss Fashion, although what brought us together was our muffin and brownie baking ;) the relationship eventually evolved around fashion what else ;)
This is why I keep following her tweets and came across her competition through which I had the chance of winning two tickets to FTBC's fundraising gig at the The Old Queens Head in Islington.
I was over the moon when my name was picked, and was very much delighted!
Sadly Zoe, the main creator of Little Miss Fashion could not attend, nevertheless Sally and Phil - the other members of the group - were there and that just made our night! :) They are so fun and genuinely nice people, fantastic company for a fantastic night out! I hope that there will be other opportunities to meet them soon! :)
I am wishing Zoe well, and sending her hugs and kisses, she is amazing and at the moment working very hard on some Xmas baubles for charity so watch this space:
I had an idea before the gig, as my people in the office are quite generous when it comes to helping charities, I thought I give it a go :)
At the end I only had time to collect some donation on the day, so the result was quite impressive! :) thanks to all my colleagues! When we got there I was happy to meet Siophra and the ladies who behind the scenes worked very hard to organise such a brilliant fundraising event; they were so grateful for the small donation collected that it honestly touched my heart!!!
One downfall: ME, oh well I was so looking forward to this evening, I even brought my camera with me so I can take loads of photos to put them up on my blog; but turns out that me rushing in the morning didn't help: camera without memory card only allows me to take limited number of pictures ;(
Had a fantastic evening, with fantastic people, fantastic atmosphere and fantastic music!
Take my pictures below as a teaser and then click on the link and visit FTBC Facebook page for more photos and videos ;)
xxxxx
Sally and Phil from Little Miss Fashion
Lauren Pritchard
WELL DONE LADIES @ FTBC! Wish you luck for all future fundraising events! Kisses and thank you again for the great night!
