| Hello August! |
| We hope you’ve been enjoying the lovely summer weather.It’s been a busy few weeks since we last spoke. We’ve been continuing to develop our fundraising plans, that we’ll be implementing in a couple of months – more on this in the next update! We’ve also started recruiting for two new Peer Support Development Officers as well as planning some upcoming events that you won’t want to miss, we’ve popped more information on these below. With it being the summer holidays, various members of the team will be taking some well earned annual leave. So although one of us will always be around to answer your questions, we might be a little slower to get back to you, so please bear with us while we recharge our batteries! Keep enjoying the sunshine. The Tackle team |
Open to Group Leaders and anyone in an organising role. Please join us for this interactive session, including delivered content, discussion and exercises, aimed at maximising your ability to create a space in your local support group that is safe enough for people to share what is going on for them – to ‘approach’ challenging thoughts and feelings, rather than avoid them – in the interests of everyone being able to get, and give, as much as possible from your group .
Lunch, snacks and tea and coffee will be supplied. All travel expenses will be paid for (on submission of an expense claim and receipts). We will pay standard rail travel, or mileage at 45p a mile. If you live more than 3 hours from Birmingham, please get in touch, as we may be able to support overnight accommodation. Do get in touch with any questions.
We are very excited to announce a bit of a coup for Tackle. Knowing that lots of people have questions about the TRANSFORM trail, Tackle’s Vice Chair Tony Collier, reached our to Professor Hashim Ahmed the Chief Investigator of the TRANSFORM study, to ask if he would come and deliver a webinar and Prof. Ahmed graciously agreed.
We invite you, and your group members to join us for an exciting online event with Professor Hashim Ahmed. This will be a great chance for you to hear more about what the study is hoping to achieve and how soon it might make a difference to prostate cancer screening in the UK.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-hashim-ahmed-tickets-976971065757?aff=oddtdtcreator
Topics covered will include
- Why TRANSFORM is needed
- What TRANSFORM is hoping to achieve?
- What are the timescales for the trial and how soon could it make a difference to prostate cancer screening in the UK?
- What are the different arms of the trial?
- How can Tackle’s support group members help spread the word about the trial.
| Hot Topics |
| This months Hot Topics contains useful updates on a number of interesting pieces of research, news items, as well as key dates for your diary. There is also a survey from our friends at Prostate Cancer Research. We would encourage you to complete this survey and share amongst your group members, be quick though, it closes on Sunday 11th August! |
| Group Leaders Meeting |
| At the last meeting we heard from Andrew, our Fundraising Manger, as well as our Vice Chair Tony, who talked about about our plans to get everyone moving for Tony’s 5K Tackle challenge day. Keep your eyes peeled for more news about this later in September. If you’d like to look back at the meeting, please find the slides here. We won’t be having a Support Group Leaders meeting in September, as key staff and Trustees are on their holidays – so the next time we’ll see you will be in October. Do get in touch if you have any questions in the meantime, one of the team will be around. |
Group Spotlight: PROSPECT, Bristol
Last month Sarah was invited down to Bristol to speak about the work of Tackle for the PROSPECT Summer Conference. It was a great day with speakers, a mindfulness walk, some great networking and a lovely lunch, all in the beautiful surrounding of Penny Brohn UKs national headquarters.
Read more about Sarah’s visit on our blog, by clicking here.
If you would like to learn more about PROSPECT’s blend of support meetings, educational talks, and community involvement then you can contact them [email protected]
New Groups
Monthly Briefing – August 2024This month we welcome Prostate Buddies D&G, an existing group that has joined the Tackle family. Prostate Buddies are a support group based in Dumfries, they exist to help men who have recently been diagnosed with, or are concerned about, Prostate Disease or Prostate Cancer. They also run a specific group for partners. Monthly Briefing – August 2024
