News and Recent events
Coventry & North Warwickshire PCSG - Open Meeting
19/01/23
Thursday January 19th at 7:30 at Broadstreet RFC, Rugby Road, Binley Woods, Coventry. We were delighted to welcome Gary Lamb as our guest speaker. Gary has been an active member of our group for over 4 years. His talk, entitled “My battle with cancer”, dealt with his diagnosis, treatment, and recovery from prostate cancer…
Lutterworth Lions PSA Testing Event at the Lutterworth Club
29/10/22
This prostate cancer awareness event was organised and promoted by the Lutterworth Lions. We welcomed 213 men to the Lutterworth Club for PSA testing. The event ran smoothly and all results were available by Monday morning (31st October). Our thanks to all involved for such a well attended and run event…
PSA Testing Event at Christ The King Parish Centre, Coundon, Coventry - Saturday 15 October 2022
15/10/22
This was our first event at Christ The King Parish Centre. We were made most welcome by Tom McShane, and the event went very smoothly - thanks to our regular team of phlebotomists and volunteers. We tested 124 men between10:00 am and 1:00 pm. The results were available the following day, Sunday…
PSA Testing Event at Queen's Diamond Jubilee Centre, Rugby - Saturday 17 September 2022
17/09/22
Our annual Rugby Prostate Cancer Awareness Event, held in conjunction with the Rugby Rokeby Lions, on Saturday 17th Septemeber was a sell out. We successfully tested 242 men with the results being available the following Monday (19th September). Once again the Lions did a fantastic job organising and running this event to ensure it went so effficiently and smoothly - it was also enjoyable…
PSA Testing Event at Willenhall Social Club - Saturday 11 June 2022
11/06/22
Our latest awareness event was on 11 June at the Willenhall Social Club. We tested 58 men in a relaxed and well ordered event. As usual for these events we used the GF online booking system. As a result they have run smoothly with minimal queuing and proper social distancing…
PSA Testing Event at Coventry Sphinx Club - Saturday 12 March 2022
12/03/22
We held another successful event on 12 March at the Coventry Sphinx Club. We tested 108 men in a relaxed and well ordered event. The Mayor of Coventry, Councillor John McNicholas supported us and indeed was tested himself. For all these events we used the GF online booking system. As a result they have run smoothly with minimal queuing and proper social distancing…
PSA Testing Event at St Finbarrs - Saturday 2nd October
02/10/21
St Finbarrs Sports and Social Club – Saturday 2nd October
This was the second event since the lockdown was eased and our first in Coventry and also only the second using to use the new GF Online Booking and Results Service without assistance – we tested 142 men. All the men used the system and the event ran smoothly with minimal queuing…
PSA Testing event with Rugby Rokeby Lions
18/09/21
This Awareness Event was held in the Sports Hall of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Centre, Rugby. The event which was jointly organised by the Rugby Rokeby Lions and the Coventry & North Warwickshire Prostate Cancer Support Group was a great success. It follows a similar event in September 2019. We tested 1844 men, This was the first event in which we used the GF online booking system, without assistance from the GF team…
Prostate Cancer Support Association (Virtual) AGM
15/04/21
Prostate Cancer Support Association AGM - 7:30 pm Thursday 15th April 2021
We held our AGM at 7:30 pm on Thursday 15th April 2021. Due to current restrictions the meeting was held online using Zoom. The formal part of the AGM lasted for about half an hour. It was followed by a talk from Sarah Gray, Tackle Prostate Cancer’s National Support and Development Manager…