The Action Cancer Big Bus, which is sponsored by SuperValu, visited Musgrave Retail Partners NI’s central office recently to mark a major milestone in the partnership with the local charity. Musgrave is the wholesale business that supports the independent SuperValu, Centra and Mace retailers in Northern Ireland.

SuperValu and Action Cancer have worked together in support of the charity’s mobile cancer services since 2001 and in 2006 SuperValu helped Action Cancer pay for and launch the hi-tech Big Bus screening and health promotion unit.

The Musgrave visit was organised to celebrate the fact that 1,200 SuperValu staff and customers have used the Big Bus since it was launched.

A total of 11,000 people across Northern Ireland have used the screening, support and health promotion facilities onboard the 18 metre-long unit, including 7,000 women who have been screened for breast cancer. The unit visits almost 200 locations a year.