Santa is about to give Rosemere Cancer Foundation some welly thanks to a Mawdesley husband and wife team of award-winning chocolatiers.
Paul and Jacqui Williams, of Choc Amor, which has its studios and visitor shop at Cedar Farm Galleries, are exhibiting at a brand new autumn food and drink fair that is also raising money for Rosemere Cancer Foundation.
The couple will be unveiling their 2018 Christmas range, which includes a chocolate Santa welly! For Jacqui, it’s an especially apt design for an apt event given that she is also battling to give cancer the welly after being diagnosed with breast cancer mid this year and is currently receiving chemotherapy treatment in the new Rosemere Cancer Foundation funded Chemotherapy Unit at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital.
Paul, who in a show of support for Jacqui raised £2,700 for the CoppaFeel! Breast cancer charity earlier this year by shaving off his hair and beard, said: “We are at this event to support Rosemere Cancer Foundation for the work it does to help local cancer patients and will be donating one of our wellies for the raffle that’s planned.”
The couple, who launched Choc Amor just six and a half years ago in spite of Paul’s career background being in finance and Jacqui’s in textiles, will also be showcasing other treats from their range, which has 38 awards to its name. Among them are three world International Chocolate Awards and 15 Guild of Fine Foods Great Taste awards.
This year’s world chocolate championships are being staged in Florence later this month (October) and will again include Choc Amor goodies, which will be available for taste testing at the Rosemere Cancer Foundation food and drink fair, which takes place from 10 am to 4 pm on Sunday, 21st October, at the Ribble Valley’s iconic Inn at Whitewell, which is said to be the Queen’s local when she stays over at her nearby Lancashire estate on visits to the county.
Entry to the event is free though there will be an opportunity to make a donation to Rosemere Cancer Foundation and buy fundraising raffle tickets. The charity will also have a merchandise stall.
Gillian Bartlett, who is organising the fair with Inn at Whitewell chef Ian Crowther, said: “The fair is in a marquee next to the inn. We had space for 24 food and drink exhibitor stands and all that space is now sold-out so we have a great offering of really wonderful seasonal produce from the best local food and drink producers around. We’re also helping a great local charity.
