Ayrshire volunteers win Breast Cancer Campaign’s ‘Volunteer of the Year’! Heather and Duncan are shown above with Baroness Fookes of Plymouth.

Maybole residents, Heather and Duncan Muir, have won Breast Cancer Campaign’s very first ‘Volunteer of the Year’ award. The Charity’s inaugural awards evening was held last night at the House of Lords and was hosted by Baroness Fookes.

The couple impressed the nomination committee with their tireless efforts to support Campaign through activities such as attending cheque collections, arranging coffee mornings and encouraging other members of the community to support the Charity. The couple have raised over £13,000, but by setting up the Maybole and District Fundraising Group they have also managed to get companies and individuals involved in various sporting activities raising even more money for vital research into breast cancer.

Heather Muir said “Duncan and I are thrilled that our contribution to breast cancer research has been recognised in such a public way. The cause is something we both whole-heartedly support and we are always looking at ways to encourage other people to get involved.”

Pamela Goldberg, Chief Executive, Breast Cancer Campaign, said “Our awards event recognises the achievements and efforts of all our supporters, both volunteers and those people who go to great effort to raise money for us. They are the lifeblood of our organisation. The winners have made an exceptional contribution to help us in our mission to continue researching the cure for breast cancer.”

Breast Cancer Campaign is the only charity that specialises in funding independent research into breast cancer throughout the UK. The charity’s aim is to find the cure for breast cancer by funding research which looks at improving diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, better understanding how it develops and ultimately either curing the disease or preventing it. Currently, it supports 83 research projects, worth over £10.2 million in 50 centres of excellence across the UK

Ayrshire News. May 2007.

Ayrshire volunteers win Breast Cancer Campaign’s ‘Volunteer of the Year’! ( Heather and Duncan are shown above with Nicola Inge, Community Coordinator for Breast Cancer Campaign at a reception in the House of Lords on 8th June 2005. )

Maybole residents, Heather and Duncan Muir, have won Breast Cancer Campaign’s very first ‘Volunteer of the Year’ award. The Charity’s inaugural awards evening was held last night at the House of Lords and was hosted by Baroness Fookes.

The couple impressed the nomination committee with their tireless efforts to support Campaign through activities such as attending cheque collections, arranging coffee mornings and encouraging other members of the community to support the Charity. The couple have raised over £13,000, but by setting up the Maybole and District Fundraising Group they have also managed to get companies and individuals involved in various sporting activities raising even more money for vital research into breast cancer.

Heather Muir said “Duncan and I are thrilled that our contribution to breast cancer research has been recognised in such a public way. The cause is something we both whole-heartedly support and we are always looking at ways to encourage other people to get involved. Baroness Fookes of Plymouth DBE DL presented the award, which was rather nice. It was quite an evening, if somewhat emotional, meeting young people who have the disease and are fighting so hard to overcome it. One lovely lass was only 27 when she was diagnosed - now 29, she has secondary cancer in her spine. Despite that, she is off to walk the Great Wall of China !! And they give us an award?"

Pamela Goldberg, Chief Executive, Breast Cancer Campaign, said “Our awards event recognises the achievements and efforts of all our supporters, both volunteers and those people who go to great effort to raise money for us. They are the lifeblood of our organisation. The winners have made an exceptional contribution to help us in our mission to continue researching the cure for breast cancer.”

Breast Cancer Campaign is the only charity that specialises in funding independent research into breast cancer throughout the UK. The charity’s aim is to find the cure for breast cancer by funding research which looks at improving diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, better understanding how it develops and ultimately either curing the disease or preventing it. Currently, it supports 83 research projects, worth over £10.2 million in 50 centres of excellence across the UK.