A Yorkshire pharmacy raised over £200 for charity after holding a coffee morning in its premises, it announced last week (April 28). 

Skipton Pharmacy said “with your incredible support, we raised £219 in just a few short hours” as the funds will be donated to Cancer Research UK. 

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Partnering with nearby artisan cafe Kibble Bakery, Skipton Pharmacy also held a raffle and ran an Easter giveaway with a lucky winner receiving a £50 Amazon voucher. 

Skipton Pharmacy added: “We are so proud to be part of this community and look forward to many more moments of coming together like this.” 

Mount Toubkal trek 

A hospital pharmacy manager has climbed North Africa’s highest mountain to help raise £30,000 for a hospital charity, it announced last week (May 2). 

The Meridien Hospital pharmacy clinical services manager Deepak Lodhia joined eight other climbers taking on Mount Toubkal in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, which stands at 4,167m high. 

The money raised will be donated to the George Eliot Hospital Chairty to “support new equipment and wellbeing initiatives at the breast care cancer unit” according to the Coventry-based Meridien Hospital. 

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The ascent took three days from April 17 and the team had to manage wild temperature fluctuations, from a sunny 20°C to a dangerously cold minus 15°C. 

Lodhia said he saw “dramatic views towards Marrakech and the Anti-Atlas Mountains”, and passing through remote villages he witnessed the “life of the friendly Amazigh people”. 

He is still raising money with the other climbers ahead of the donation to the George Eliot Hospital Chairty.  

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It comes as a pharmacist is hosting a music festival in his back garden to raise donations for a mitochondrial disease charity. 

And a locum pharmacist cycled for 500km during Ramadan to raise over £14,602 for a Gaza charity.