The team behind one of the north-east’s most famous fundraising events has launched a recipe book to honour the local community who have rallied so enthusiastically behind it.
Fraserburgh’s Moonlight Prowl has raised more than £700,000 to support research into the prevention and treatment of breast cancer at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the University of Aberdeen since it first launched in 2005.
Hundreds of people take part in the annual event, walking a 13-mile route through the town overnight.
Now the organising committee has compiled a baking recipe book to pay tribute to the legion of volunteers who support the event and raise money for breast cancer care.
Organising committee member Anne-May Adams said: “Every year at the prowl we always do tea and food. We serve up cakes and everybody is always asking who makes them and where the recipes are from, so we decided to make up a book.
“It’s a walk for the community, it’s for the people here in Fraserburgh. It’s local and all the money’s kept local. The Prowl is to tell people that breast cancer is a serious thing, so it is important to raise awareness.”
She said many of the Moonlight Prowl’s biggest supporters were unable to walk the route themselves, but instead supported participants by supplying them with home baking.
Many of them have contributed to the recipe book, which is now on sale in the town for £5. The money raised from the venture will be added to the funds from this year’s 10th anniversary Prowl.
Earlier this year Fraserburgh’s Kinnaird Head Lighthouse was illuminated pink to mark the event’s registration evening.
Then in March the organising committee backed a groundbreaking art exhibition titled ‘Breathless Breastless’ which was launched by cancer survivor Louse Stedman and inspired by cancer survivors from Aberdeen.
The 2015 Moonlight Prowl is taking place on June 6.