# Bosses drop down the corporate ladder for Marie Curie Cancer Care

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/10/27/bosses-drop-down-corporate-ladder-marie-curie-cancer-care/
- Published: 2007-10-27T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Business leaders across the UK are getting a taste of their first job as part of
Marie Curie Cancer Care’s ‘Back to the Shop Floor’ fundraising appeal this month,
sponsored by Persimmon Homes.
Participants in the campaign already include top hairdresser
Trevor Sorbie, Marie Curie Nurse of the Year, Dawn Dyne, and Persimmon Homes’ Group
Chief Executive and Group Development Director

 

 

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Hairdresser Trevor Sorbie joined a team of 10 juniors at his Covent Garden salon
to undertake a role he hadn’t carried out for 43 years. Dressed as one of his team
Trevor did everything from shampooing clients to making teas and coffees, sweeping
the floor, running errands, checking stock display and cleaning. He says that he
found the experience so valuable that he is going to be heading Back to the Shop
Floor regularly from now on – ‘becoming’ a junior for one day each month.

 

 

The sponsorship money raised by Sorbie and other bosses involved in Back to the 
Shop Floor will help Marie Curie Cancer Care provide high quality nursing to terminally
ill people, giving them the choice of dying at home supported by their families.

 

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