Sunday 21 March 2010

Tit4Tat


Tit4tat is a charity who have been chosen as the main charity for the 9Th annual show for Manchester show.

By choosing choosing to use a Charity Can aim for different people, for example this charity is about women who have been effected breast cancer, this press release is on the website, on this press release talks about story a women went through breast cancer to give back their beauty to them and feel better about themselves.
it a very wise chose to use the charity as its is based on tattooing but also it a very well know illness that has taken away many peoples life's and ruined peoples life's.


Tit4Tat

Tit4Tat is a newly formed charity, working in conjunction with Pennine Acute Hospitals Link4Pink, raising money for The Victoria Breast Unit at The Royal Oldham Hospital. Our objective is to raise money for a tattoo machine that will enable patients to have an areola tattooed on after breast reconstructive surgery. This procedure is already being performed successfully throughout the world including North Manchester General Hospital which is where current patients need to be referred to.

1 in 9 women and 1 in 100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer so the chances are at some stage in our lives most of us will know someone who has been diagnosed with this disease. For some the treatment will be a mastectomy which is physically, emotionally and psychologically devastating and traumatic.

I was one of those people affected when my best friend Toni was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2009. She had to have a mastectomy and she is now undergoing reconstructive surgery and will eventually have an areola tattooed on her newly reconstructed breast. It was whilst discussing the reconstruction with her surgeon that he mentioned that they didn’t have their own tattoo machine at The Victoria Unit and it was then that Toni promised that she would raise the money for the machine and so Tit4Tat was born.

We will be at Manchester Tattoo Show on the 6th & 7th of March 2010. The organisers have very kindly "adopted" Tit4Tat as the show’s officially supported charity. The link is pretty obvious and the show is the ideal place to demonstrate that not only is tattooing a form of body art but it also helps to give women who choose to have reconstructive surgery a way of regaining their lost femininity.

We hope this has given you a brief insight into what it is we are trying to achieve and we hope you will pop along and see our stand at the Tattoo Show and of course give generously.

1 comment:

  1. What a great idea. You need to research cause related marketing theory for this

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