THE STORY BEHIND THE BCNA AND BAKERS DELIGHT PARTNERSHIP
In 1998, BCNA founder Lyn Swinburne envisaged an organisation that would positively influence the way breast cancer was considered in the community. BCNA was born out of a small group of determined women who wanted to make the breast cancer journey better. Lyn Swinburne’s vision was for no one to feel alone through their experience of breast cancer as she wanted people to talk openly about the disease and acknowledge its enormous personal impact. In 2022, that vision remains our priority. Lyn Swinburne recalls the time she bumped into Bakers Delight co-founders Roger and Lesley Gillespie at a dinner where she had been a speaker. She was talking about her passion to establish a national organisation for women with breast cancer and Roger and Leslie offered to help.
‘I had no idea what I needed in those days. I was running on energy and passion and not much structure. Women were contacting me for help, and I was running around trying to plug gaps everywhere. When I finally worked out that I needed an office space and everything that came with it, Lesley and Roger agreed in a heartbeat. The rest, as they say is history!’ says Lyn.
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