Prostate Cancer Screening – Update
As a Charity campaigning for better awareness and access to PSA screening for Prostate Cancer (PCa), we flag up significant advances in our fight against our commonest male cancer killing nearly 12,000 UK men every year, a figure now exceeding deaths from breast cancer. We therefore track reports from scientific journals and international conferences. The […]
Roger Retires
At our Board Meeting this week, Roger Wotton, Chairman of Tackle Prostate Cancer since January 2015, announced his resignation as a trustee with immediate effect. He commented: “It is with deep regret that I announced my resignation as a trustee of Tackle. This is entirely due to the progressive nature of my advanced prostate cancer. […]
Tackle Appoints new Trustee
Tackle is very pleased to announce the appointment of Jackie Manthorpe as a Trustee with immediate effect. Jackie has been a Humanistic-Integrative Counsellor for four years. Prior to that, she spent 18 years in commercial insurance and 20 years as a registered nurse. She has first-hand experience of being both a cancer carer and relative of […]
Prostate Cancer Screening – Update
As a charity campaigning for better awareness and access to PSA screening for Prostate Cancer (PCa), we flag up significant advances in our fight against our commonest male cancer killing nearly 12,000 UK men every year, a figure now exceeding deaths from breast cancer. We therefore track reports from scientific journals and international conferences. The […]
Wilts Walking FC sport their new Tackle-sponsored strip!
Wilts Walking Football Club Over 50s team sport their new strip sponsored by Tackle. Captained by Tackle Trustee, Alphonso Archer, the team got off to a good start in the Gloucestershire FA 2019/20 league by winning two games and drawing one. Everyone wishes them every success for the season but particularly in raising awareness of […]
Shepway Veterans raise £6,445 for Tackle on The 3 Peaks Challenge
Shepway Veterans, a group of men over 45 have just completed the challenge of a lifetime: climbing the 3 highest peaks in the UK, starting with Ben Nevis in Scotland, then onto Scafell Pike in England and finishing with Snowdon in North Wales raising awareness and funds for Tackle Prostate Cancer. Back in August 2017 […]
Prostate Pedallers Open Day – Get Physically and Mentally Fit
Prostate Pedallers is an exercise club whose aim is to help you become both mentally and physically fitter so that you are in the best possible shape and state of mind to keep your prostate cancer at bay.
Shepway Veterans take on the 3 Peaks Challenge
Good luck to the Shepway Veterans, a group of men over 45 from South East Kent who are taking on the challenge of a lifetime between 10 and 12 September: to climb the 3 highest peaks in the UK, starting with Ben Nevis in Scotland, then on to Scafell Pike in England and finishing with Snowdon in […]
Tackle Trustee faces his fears with a paragliding jump in Turkey
Tackle Prostate Cancer has recently teamed up with Wiltshire Walking Football Club to help raise awareness of prostate cancer. Tackle Trustee Alphonso Archer -a member of Wilts WFC – recently faced his fears with a paragliding jump in Turkey. Alphonso took to the skies wearing his Tackle Walking Football bib. Read the full story here.
Tackle teams up with Wiltshire Walking Football Club to help raise awareness of prostate cancer
Tackle has teamed up with Wiltshire Walking Football Club to help raise awareness of prostate cancer. Walking football is different to regular Association Football and is aimed at the over 50s age group, teams are springing up across the country. Many tournaments are now catering exclusively for the over 60s age group. It has very […]