📣 It’s been another busy May facilitating the usual numerous national media requests in print, on-line, on the radio and TV, raising lots of #SkinCancerAwareness! However, we are passionate about educating, empowering and equipping the nation with the tools and resources required to make a profound difference by embedding prevention and early detection into the hands and hearts communities nationwide.✋🧡
🧡 Whilst at Skcin, every month is #SkinCancerAwarenessMonth, during May alone we are pleased to report:
🧡 Skcin gained over 1,500 new registrations to our SKCIN app!
🧡 86 new Primary Schools, registered with our Sun Safe Schools accreditation programme with vital education reaching over 20,000 children & parent communities nationwide!
🧡 128 new nursery & pre-school settings registered with our Sun Safe Nurseries accreditation programme reaching over 10,000 early learners & parent communities nationwide!
🧡 165 new hair & beauty professionals registered with our MASCED training programme, in addition Guinot invested in 300 training courses for their expert therapists across the UK and Ireland!
🧡 73 new Allied Health Professionals registered with our MASCED PRO training programme, in addition Skcin sourced funding to provide over 100 courses for professionals in June!
🧡 Skcin re-launched our national Sun Safe Workplaces Accreditation programme for employers of outdoor workers and partnered with SIG Roofing to raise the roof on sun safety and skin cancer across the roofing industry!
🧡 Our shop sales hit the roof with over 120 boxes of awareness resources delivered nationwide!
🧡 We exhibited at the Primary Care Show, providing free patient and clinician toolkits to healthcare professionals.
🧡 We raised awareness of sun safety and the importance of education with MPs at a parliamentary drop-in event at Westminster.
🧡 We bought beauty industry leads on-board to back the VAT Burn campaign that calls on government to remove VAT on SPF 30+ sunscreen and support wider education.
🧡 We joined forces with Melanoma Focus again for the 100 Miles in May fundraiser, supporting our amazing fundraisers every step of the way.
June - here we come...💪
