The Children’s Centre presented prizes of fruit baskets to four winners in a competition to celebrate Fruity Friday. Danni Mottram, Healthier Outcomes Worker at The Children’s Centre, organised the competition to mark Fruity Friday (May 13) - which is an annual awareness day devised by the World Cancer Research Fund. On the big day there were five inflatable bananas on display in locations around the Island including The Strand Shopping Centre, Peel, Jurby, Ramsey, Laxey, Castletown, Port Erin, Villa Marina, Ballaquayle School and the NSC - and anyone who spotted one of them had to text the location to the competition number to be in with a chance of winning. All those who did that were put in the hat and four lucky entrants won fruit hampers supplied by Marks & Spencer. The World Cancer Research Fund organises Fruity Friday to encourage people to eat more fruit as it contains a wide range of vitamins, minerals, fibre and other phytochemicals – naturally occurring plant compounds that can be beneficial to health by protecting cells in the body from damage that can lead to cancer. Danni Mottram, Healthier Outcomes Worker at The Children’s Centre, said the campaign on the Isle of Man had been a big success and was run alongside ongoing initiatives supported by the charity to encourage a healthy lifestyle. - ENDS -