Thursday 30^th November 9.30 – 18.30 Rezum Water Vapor Therapy Masterclass for BPH

Suitable for consultant urologists

Join us for a masterclass on Water Vapour Therapy for BPH, which will be at Pelican Cancer Foundation Basingstoke. Click here to find out more. With a live cases from theatre, the day will include background information on Rezum Water Vapour Therapy, practical advice about patient selection and multidisciplinary considerations. To sign up for this free workshop please email Fraser Murfet or contact Pelican.

The extremely talented Karen of Allium Design www.alliumdesign.co.ukorganised two fabulous festive wreath workshops at The Vineyard at Stockcross on Tuesday 10th December. All profits were donated to Pelican Cancer Foundation. Thank you to Karen and to everyone who attended the event. The wreaths are very impressive!

A massive thank you to everyone who attended the Pelican Cancer and St Michael’s Hospice ‘Carols by Candlelight’ Service on Thursday 10th December.

The service was extremely well attended and we would like to thank everyone for all their hard work in making the evening such a success. In particular Tim Bennett, The Director of Music and Performing Arts at Cheam School, the Cheam Chapel Choir, Joanna Seligman and The Winchester Singers, the organist David Bishop, trumpeter Andy Townsend and the Reverend Canon Jo Stoker, the Rector of St Michael’s and her wonderful team.

The church was beautifully decorated by The Friends of St Michael’s Hospice and looked magical in the candlelight.

Jackie and Anna braved the wild sea on new year’s day to take the Lyme Bay Plunge in honour of a dear friend recently diagnosed with bladder cancer and raised a wonderful £230 for Pelican. They braved the sea dressed as The Cat in The Hat and Thing 1. Jackie said afterwards: “We actually felt like frauds, as, despite the sea being very rough, it was surprisingly warm. But we were determined to do it to support our dear friend. We hope that Pelican can use the money that we raised towards its great work.”

What a cool challenge to take on to help improve survival and quality of life for cancer patients!

Waitrose Basingstoke surprised us with £500 through their Community Matters scheme. Thank you to all those Waitrose customers who, by voting for us with their green tokens, have supported research and education for cancer specialists.

Sheryl Doughty from Derbyshire raised a fantastic £859.57 for Pelican Cancer Foundation by organising a Summer Fair in honour of her mum’s friend. Sheryl says: “ We have been inspired by what you do, and, as I tend to hold an event each year for charity, this year we have chosen to do it in aid of Pelican Cancer Foundation.” Despite the weather, with plenty of stalls including hot and cold drinks, cakes, bric-a-brac, tombola, raffle, plants and more, a lot of fun was had by all who attended on Saturday, 9 July, 2016 at the Rutland Bowling Club in Ilkeston. A big thank you from all the team at Pelican to Sheryl and all who supported her fundraising event.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the Pelican Cancer Foundation Annual Golf Day 2016. For all your good humour, bad jokes and wonderful friendship.

In spite of the weather in May, the day was a huge success – nothing dampens the great British spirit! We raised nearly £5,000 which is absolutely fantastic, and we were all really inspired by the generosity of everyone. It was lovely to meet all the teams, and we are really excited to start planning the 2017 Golf Day.

Congratulations to the Pelican Annual Charity Golf Day Winners 2016: the Lamb Brooks team (for the second year running).

Thursday 30th June 2016, Newbury Racecourse

  A sincere thank you to everyone who
supported the amazing Pelican Charity Race
Evening 2016 in memory of John Hills and
Christian Marner. 

An exclusive race evening was held to celebrate
the lives of Christian Marner and the popular
Lambourn trainer John Hills who were two very
special men, passionate about racing and having ‘fun’. Sadly, they died from cancer far too early in life and are hugely missed. Funds were raised in support of Pelican Cancer Foundation and Pancreatic Cancer UK to help fight cancers below the belt through medical research, education, detection and pioneering precision surgery.

The Pelican team would like to thank everyone who supported this fabulous event, especially the wonderful Fiona Marner and her Event Committee.

Photo: Charlotte Plunkett who rode First Mohican to win the Charity Race at Newbury on 30th June and raised a fabulous £7,036.17 for Pelican and Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Photo: Fiona Hills with jockeys. John Hills ‘Gilderdale’ Charity Race. Pelican Charity Race Evening 2016.

The 3D Camera, which you, our supporters so kindly funded along with match funding from the Greenham Common Trust, was delivered to Basingstoke Hospital in April. The first operation using the new camera took place on the 15th April 2016 and was very successful. (In the photo you can see the team wearing their 3D glasses using the new 3D camera.)

Mr Venkat, the Consultant Surgeon who used the equipment first, said: “The new camera is great; the improved visibility is amazing and is enabling us to perform even more precise surgery. We have been able to do more complex cases using the new camera that would have required open surgery before. It has been particularly useful for our trainee surgeons who can now more easily perform keyhole surgery because of the depth of vision it provides.”

Thank you to everyone who donated towards our 3D camera appeal, your generosity is improving treatment for bowel cancer patients at Basingstoke Hospital.

The management team at Niche Finance Group decided early this year that as a group, they wanted to give something back so we put together a charity committee to organise charity support and fundraising. As a group they decided to raise money for three different organisations; the Pelican Cancer Foundation, Harbour Cancer Support Centre and Shelter.

On the 26^th August they held their very first “Great Niche Bake Off” at their offices, based in Alton and Whitley and selected their own Paul Hollywood’s and Mary Berry’s very carefully as you’d expect. The winners were Stuart Selkirk who baked a delicious Pina Colada cake and Bradley George who whipped up a beautiful batch of salted caramel brownies. The runners up where Lisa Merriman with her lemon drizzle cake and Connie Waldron with her lemon tart. They also had to give recognition to Hayley Chappell for her out of this world brownie based cheesecake. A massive well done to their winners but, if you think about it… everyone’s a winner when there’s cake all over the office.

Up next on their agenda is the Great South Run in Southsea on the 23^rdOctober. So far, they’ve put together a team of 13 crazy people who are looking to run the 10 miles to raise money for their chosen charities and we can’t wait to see them cross the line! This will be shortly followed by some Halloween themed activities which they’re all looking forward to.

They can’t wait to see how much they can raise for their very worthy causes!

The SPECC | Significant Polyp & Early Colorectal Cancer programme launched with a first workshop in London, bringing together 80 cancer specialists from the London Cancer strategic clinical network to discuss ways of identifying bowel cancer earlier, improving precision treatment and helping patients live better for longer.

This national programme is expected to have a profound impact on the diagnosis and treatment of early colorectal cancer and to change clinical practice across England and Wales. Delegates from the London workshop confirmed that the SPECC programme helped them identify changes in clinical practice they would initiate at their hospitals as a result of the workshop. Changes to clinical practice include better assessment of size, position and appearance of polyps through improved methods of diagnosis and imaging such as higher resolution MRI, more standardised reporting of polyps, and drawing on expertise from different cancer specialists by discussing significant polyps as a team in MDTs. As well as local treatment strategies, teams were also encouraged to develop their regional partnerships to help provide consistent treatment options across England and Wales.

The next workshop will take place on 22nd January 2016, bringing together cancer specialists from the York and Humber strategic clinical network. The programme will tour the strategic clinical networks throughout 2015-2017, as Pelican Cancer Foundation invites six core members from all 164 Colorectal Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) in England and Wales.

Pelican Cancer Foundation is a charity with an exceptional reputation for developing high-impact national and international courses and meetings to improve patient care for cancer patients.

SPECC is endorsed by The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Beating Bowel Cancer, Bowel Cancer UK, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Royal College of Pathologists and kindly supported by industry sponsors, including (from September 2015 to June 2016) Gold Sponsor Exact Sciences.

For further information on the SPECC programme, go to www.pelicancancer.org/specc
For further information about the Pelican Cancer Foundation, go to www.pelicancancer.org 
Twitter: @Pelican_Cancer #SPECCPOLYP 

SPECC | Significant Polyp & Early Colorectal Cancer in Bradford was an important meeting for the county with the highest bowel cancer incidence in England.

The feedback has been amazing. We’ve received some lovely thank yous for organising a great event, but, more importantly, the quotes that stand out are all about how people will change their clinical practice as a result of the meeting. That means a substantial proportion of the patients in this area will be considered even more carefully this week and every week thereafter – the direct impact of Pelican’s work and only possible thanks to the generosity of our donors.

Pelican Cancer Foundation is a charity with an exceptional reputation for developing high-impact national and international courses and meetings to improve patient care for cancer patients.

SPECC is endorsed by The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Beating Bowel Cancer, Bowel Cancer UK, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Royal College of Pathologists and kindly supported by industry sponsors, including (from September 2015 to June 2016) Gold Sponsor Exact Sciences.

For further information on the SPECC programme, go to www.pelicancancer.org/specc
For further information about the Pelican Cancer Foundation, go to www.pelicancancer.org
Twitter: @Pelican_Cancer  #SPECCPOLYP

A quick infographic tour of the reasons behind running the SPECC programme, how it works, the aims and first signs of impact after the first five workshops.