WARRINGTON North MP Helen Jones, and formerly the chair of the Parliamentary All-Party Stroke Group, is supporting the Stroke Association’s ‘Make May Purple’ campaign.
The Stroke Association is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to conquering stroke.
Helen Jones, whose father died from stroke, said:
“More than a million people are rebuilding their lives after stroke. By supporting ‘Make May Purple’ people will be helping the Stroke Association to make sure stroke gets the attention it deserves as well as supporting their work to fund vital, innovative research into stroke care and treatment.
“I wish this campaign well and hope as many people as possible will Make May Purple.’’
During May the Stroke association and its supporters will be holding fundraising events – pub quizzes, church bake sales, office drinks or even domino games – and will be turning them purple. People will be being sponsored for wearing purple – whether sporting aubergine accessories or dressing head-to-toe in vivid violet.
The Stroke Association are suggesting having a purple coffee morning with purple bakes. Recipes for purple smoothies, purple fruit kebabs, and purple cupcakes have been produced.They have also produced a purple playlist of songs and a special purple quiz for use at events:
Purple playlist songs include:
- Purple Haze (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- Deep Purple (Donny & Marie Osmond)
- Purple Rain (Prince and The Revolution)
- Purple Dancer (Fleetwood Mac)
- Purple Heather (Rod Stewart)
- Purple Prose (Mystery Jets)
- Purple Sky (Kid Rock)
- Amethyst (Low)
- Bull in the Heather (Sonic Youth)
- Dear Heather (Leonard Cohen)
- Lilac Wine (Nina Simone)
- The Lilac Hand of Menthol Dan (T Rex)
- Violets (Miles Davies)
- Violet Hill (Coldplay)
- Ultraviolet (McFly)
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky)
- Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
For more information on ‘Make May Purple’ can be found at:
