# Stained glass messages of hope raise funds for cancer charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/09/03/stained-glass-messages-hope-raise-funds-cancer-charity/
- Published: 2003-09-03T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A glass panel sale has raised £45,000 for the Macmillan Windmill Unit.
Macmillan
Cancer Relief and the Blackpool Gazette have joined forces in an unusual fundraising
initiative to generate funds for the Macmillan Windmill Unit at the Blackpool Victoria
Hospital. They have invited the people of Blackpool to purchase sections of stained
glass panels, containing etched personal messages of hope and encouragement, to 
raise funds for the Windmill unit, a new cancer outpatient unit opened by the Duke
of Westminster this summer.

105 glass panel messages were bought by individual people and fifteen by local businesses
containing words of hope, encouragement and visions of life. These stained glass
panels have raised £45,000 for the Macmillan Windmill Unit, and now adorn the walls
of the unit at the Blackpool Victoria hospital which has taken three and a half 
years to complete.

The glass panels were personalised to fit all pockets and tastes, the prices ranged
from an individual engraved panel at a modest £65 to the largest contribution which
was £5000. The messages were also diverse, with three requests for the song title‘
You’ll never walk alone’, two for ‘Let’s face the music and dance’ and many messages
of ‘love’ and ‘hope’.

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