With winter well and truly here, keep cosy while learning about all the exciting things in store at Answer Cancer. I hope this November update gives you some ideas for things to do and think about while watching the wind, rain, sleet and snow! Enjoy the links, news and information.
Newsletter Highlights
- Book onto our final training sessions for 2024 and into 2025.
- Health and Wellbeing Fairs
- Our new photo gallery
- This Van Can
- Richard’s prostate health video
- Who’s pledged to Bee Seen, Get Screened?
- Stakeholder Collaborative
- Improving the route to diagnosis of lung cancer in people who have never smoked (ROUTE)
Upcoming Training & Events
Free training sessions from Answer Cancer, the Greater Manchester Cancer Screening Engagement Programme! Different dates and times are available to suit you. We are now offering training through a mixture of online and face-to-face sessions, so please make note when signing up!
You need to register in advance to attend the sessions, but you can join as many sessions as you like. For a list of courses and register, please click here.
Courses provided by other organisations
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Talk Cancer CoursesThe 2024 dates for Cancer Research UK Talk Cancer and Train the Delivered by nurse trainers, these online, interactive workshops give • How to reduce the risk of cancer If you promote health and wellbeing in your community, the Talk Cancer |
Health and Wellbeing Fairs
Gazzala from the Answer Cancer Engagement Team has organised this Health and Wellbeing Fair and will be talking about cancer and cancer screening at the British Muslim Heritage Centre in Whalley Range.
The following week, on the 13th December, there will be a similar event for men.
Please do go and show your support, take advantage of the services on offer and say hi to Gazzala, at what promises to be two fabulous and informative days.
Our new photo gallery
We have so many fabulous pictures from our events and engagement activities that we wanted to create a place to showcase them. Why not visit our new photo gallery on the website and see what we have been up to lately or even download a picture for yourselves.
We would especially like to thank David McLenachan and Saphir Beaunol, our fabulous volunteer photographers, who have taken some great pictures at our events. Thanks also go to our Engagement Team for taking photos while they are out and about at events in the community.
View photo gallery
This Van Can
GM Cancer Alliance are launching a new This Van Can initiative which will be touring Greater Manchester to raise awareness about the signs and symptoms of bowel cancer. The van aims to deliver education around bowel cancer symptoms and the importance of bowel screening. Finding bowel cancer early makes it much more treatable.
The van will visit all 10 Greater Manchester localities starting in Manchester and Salford before moving on to Trafford and Stockport in the early new year.
Manchester
Thursday 28th November – Piccadilly Gardens
Friday 29th November – Wythenshawe town centre
Saturday 30th November – Tesco Blackley
Thursday 5th December – Longsight Market
Friday 6th December – Tesco Blackley
Saturday 7th December – Wythenshawe town centre
Salford
Thursday 12th December – Tesco Irlam
Friday 13th December – Tesco Salford
Saturday 14th December – Walkden town centre
Thursday 19th December – Walkden town centre
Friday 20th December – Tesco Irlam
Saturday 21st December – Tesco Salford
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Prostate health videoProstate cancer is very much in the news at the moment with Chris Hoy’s recent diagnosis.
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Who’s pledged to the Bee Seen, Get Screened?
Carbon Creative signed the Bee Seen, Get Screened pledge and took up the offer of screening awareness training for their staff.
Director, Kate Hadfield commented, “Thanks so much for the presentation last week, we have had really good feedback from the team and they all said they learnt something they didn’t previously know, which was great. Got some staff who are already chasing for check ups.”
Sign the pledge
Stakeholders Collaborative November 2024
Despite the cold and snowy weather, our Stakeholder Collaborative in Oldham on the 20th November 2024 was lively and well attended.
There were some great presentations from the Greater Manchester Bowel Cancer Screening Improvement Lead, Being There and NESTAC, plenty of opportunity for networking and for recognising all the participants achievements in promoting cancer screening.
Lots of ideas were shared about how Answer Cancer can continue to develop and we will be working on these over the coming months.
Improving the route to diagnosis of lung cancer in people who have never smoked (ROUTE)
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Engage with Voluntary Sector North West
As one of the four partners in Answer Cancer, Voluntary Sector North West supports the sector “to positively shape the future of the North West”.
If you are a VCFSE organisation interested in engaging with Voluntary Sector North West, we invite you to connect with us. You can join free of charge as either a full member or an associate member, or simply subscribe to our e-bulletin to receive the latest updates and insights about the sector. If you are interested in joining as a member, or would like to join our conference on the 14th November, just follow the links.