# Waitrose donates 8,000 apples to Sit Down on It campaign

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/04/02/waitrose-donates-8000-apples-sit-down-it-campaign/
- Published: 2006-04-02T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Supermarket Waitrose was the only fruit supplier who agreed to donate apples to 
Bowel Cancer UK’s campaign for healthy eating.
The apples will be given away to 
mark Bowel Cancer UK’s Sit Down on It appeal week which starts on 7 April. The apples
will feature a sticker with details of how to donate £1.50 by SMS and enter a competition
to win one of 35 unusual prizes, all of them related to sitting down.

GNER and Network Rail have both donated free sites to Bowel Cancer UK from which
volunteers will distribute the apples.

Stephen Roose-Jones, head of fundraising at the cancer charity, said about the prizes:“
the common denominator is that the winners sit down somewhere special – reminding
us that we should think about our bottoms as a matter of life or death.”

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