Saks4Eve 2025
Saks4Eve count-up alert, plus big challenges and three things you can do to help prevent cervical cancer.
Our charity partner The Eve Appeal is the UK’s leading gynaecological cancer charity. There are five gynae cancers, which are womb, ovarian, cervical, vulval and vaginal cancer. The Eve Appeal aims to prevent gynae cancers from developing in the first place, but if they do develop, they want to make sure they’re detected early so more people survive their diagnosis.
Lucy and customer at Saks Hair Newark
OUR BEATING HEART
Without our teams and our customers, friends, families and supporting businesses, our fundraising would be zilch. Zero. Nada. BUT because so many of you said a resounding YES when we announced our desire to help a charity that strikes a chord with most of our customers, it’s been an amazing journey of Doing Our Bit ever since.
THE COUNT-UP IS ON!
At the time of going live, we’ve raised £230,464 to aid The Eve Appeal’s essential research. Meaning we’re now right on our countdown (count-up?) to £250k. Our salons will raise a quarter of a million pounds+ with the help of our customers. And we’d kinda LOVE to hit this major milestone in the year that we’ve celebrated 50 years of Saks.
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS…
Shining a light on our fab fundraising teams who trekked and hobbled the distance most recently. Those. Blisters. Though.
Before…
50K IN A DAY
Yup you heard that right. Saks teams who’ve previously done all sorts of full-on challenges decided it would be perfect to mark our 50th birthday by trekking 50 Whole Ks in one day? Enter…
Ann-Elise and Jess – Saks Barnard Castle
Molly, Poppy and Sarah – Saks Chester
Alice and Sarah – Saks Guisborough
Janet and Jo – Saks HQ
Alex, Erin, Niamh and Sophia – Saks Northallerton
Claire – Saks Wetherby
Various times during… Janet, Alice, Claire and Sarah
The explainers from the Saks Northallerton group chat say it all…
Alex: Laughter, sweat and tears
Erin: I was DELIRIOUS
Niamh: It was H E L L
Sophia: Loved it!
After. No caption needed.
Salon owner Katie at Saks Northallerton – who rocked our Three Peaks challenge in 2024 – says “All praise to the Saks team for doing this mega challenge. I was on vehicle support and supplies duties and even driving the route seemed a crazy distance! Around 11 hours of walking up and dow hills! I met the team at varying points armed with water, painkillers and car keys just in case, but everyone just kept going. Full praise for their grit and determination. The moral kept the feed moving and encouraging each other along the way.”
CAMINTO DEL RAY TREK
As part of our Saks 50 celebrations, salon owners undertook the trek as part of the itinerary with salons taking the opportunity to also raise funds – high five to Saks Guisborough, Hull, Newark Beauty, Redcar, Sedbury Hall and Saks HQ.
BACK TO THE SALON!
Kudos as always to our teams who rocked fundraising in salons too… Saks Aberdeen, Cheadle, Knutsford and Hull.
SAKS4EVE SHARE ON CERVICAL CANCER
There are three things you can do to help prevent cervical cancer which is almost wholly preventable. Nearly all cases are caused by HPV, a common virus which is transmitted through skin-to-skin sexual contact.
Our immune systems often clear HPV without causing any problems. But, if it lingers, it can develop into some cancers – cervical but also vulval and vaginal cancer, anal, head and neck and penile cancers.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
There are a few things you can do to help prevent cervical cancer:
Get the HPV vaccination if you’re eligible
Attend your cervical screening test when invited
Know the signs and symptoms and get anything worrying checked out as soon as possible.
All young people will be offered the HPV vaccine in year 8 as part of the school’s vaccination programme. The HPV vaccine has been shown to reduce the number of cervical cancers by 90%. You can get the HPV vaccine from your GP up until the age of 25, or up to 45 if you are considered to be in a higher risk group.
Cervical screening is a test to help prevent cervical cancer. It looks for high-risk HPV, and if it is present, cell changes. These cell changes aren’t cancer but could turn into cancer over time. If cell changes are found, they can be treated or monitored to stop them turning into cancer.
The symptoms of cervical cancer aren’t always obvious. The most common symptoms are vaginal bleeding that is new or different for you, including:
Vaginal bleeding during or after sex, this is often the first sign
Bleeding in-between periods
Bleeding after the menopause (12 months since your last period)
Other symptoms include:
Lower back or pelvic pain
Pain or discomfort during sex
Changes to vaginal discharge like a change to smell.
If you have any of these symptoms, it is important that you see your GP, even if you have recently had a clear cervical screening test. It is more likely to be caused by something less serious than cancer, but it is always worth getting them checked. Just in case. The earlier cervical cancer is caught, the more treatment options there are and the best possible chance someone will have of successful treatment.
ASK EVE
To contact The Eve Appeal’s nurse-led information service about any questions related to gynaecological health, please call 0808 802 0019 – which is free to call from landlines and mobile phones – or get in touch via nurse@eveappeal.org.uk.
FANCY GETTING INVOLVED?
To see what your salon’s up to next, chat to your Saks stylist or therapist next time you’re in. Help us to make change. Love Saks xx