A Slough-based knitting group which knits and crochets for charity has created a postbox topper to open conversations and encourage self-checking and symptom awareness for breast cancer.
Knit Your Socks Off has created the topper to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
It was installed on the postbox in the main reception of Wexham Park Hospital by group co-founder Samina Hussain and group member Theresa Carter.
The topper features knitted and crotchet boobs of different sizes and skin tones to normalise and ignite conversations around breast cancer and encourage symptom awareness and self-checking.
In the last year, the group has supported 22 different charities and created and donated more than 7,000 items.
Sbba Siddique, co-founder of the group, said: “It was really important for us to mark breast cancer awareness month in some way.
“The group was started by myself and my co-founder Samina Hussain when she was diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago.
“In recent years several group members have also had a breast cancer diagnosis, so it became personal to spread awareness of self-checking and symptoms."
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