Ucan Urological Cancer Charity

EVENT - after the success of last years event Sunday 21 April is the date for the second charity ladies funday in aid of UCAN. Please contact the Kirkgate Bar on 01224 649515 or the Masada Bar on 01224 641587 for tickets. Many thanks to Elinor for organising this event for us again and for the continued support over the year from the Kirkgate, Masada and Bridge Bars

The institute of cancer research have launched a survey for cancer patients.
They have been working to try and improve the policies around drug approvals to speed up access to the newest drugs for cancer patients. They have launched a quick five minute survey to find out about patients’ experiences and opinions around drug access.
They are looking to hear from as many patients as possible so that they can make the biggest impact.
... https://www.icr.ac.uk/drugsurvey
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Chris Milne who organised the very successful Blue Thistle Ball earlier this year, raising funds for UCAN and Friends of Neuro is organising the LEJOG in May 2020, anyone interested in this event please get in touch with the UCAN office g.stephen@abdn.ac.uk who will pass on your details to Chris. Thank you Chris for continuing to support UCAN

THANK YOU to Westhill Rotary Club for inviting UCANs Gayle Stephen to be the guest speaker at their meeting on Thursday 10 January, it was lovely meeting all your members and we hope you found the talk informative

The UCAN fundraising office will be closed from Monday 24 December and reopen Thursday 3 January 2019. The opening hours for the UCAN Centre over the festive period are below. On behalf of everyone at UCAN we wish all our followers a very merry christmas and happy new year🎄

IMPORTANT NOTICE - The UCAN Centre has changed its opening hours on a Friday for drop ins. Fridays hours from this week (Friday 2 November) will be 9am-2.30pm, please note this is only for drop ins

The Grampian Cancer Partnership Group launched a new website yesterday. UCAN's Gayle Stephen attended the launch along with representatives from the 12 other charities involved. Visitors to the site can view, in one location, information and signposting to the wide range of support services available for cancer support organisations in Grampian, and in future, the north of Scotland. Patients and those caring for someone with a cancer diagnosis can search for practical and emotional support services and find out about the full range of information and services provided by local and national charities. Pictured along with the charity representtivies is Professor Steven Logan, Chairman of NHS Grampian and Dr Colette Blackwell, Chair of Grampian Cancer Partnership.
www.cancersupportnorthscotland.co.uk.

INFO - The UCAN fundraising office will be closed on Friday 19 and Monday 22 October, the UCAN Centre is open as normal and can be contacted on 01224 550333

THANK YOU - Members of Ellon Rotary Associate Club and their families embarked on a sponsored bike ride from Mintlaw to Ellon over the summer and raised a brilliant £1,400 for us. Pictured below is UCAN's Gayle Stephen receiving the cheque from Rotary assoicate members. Picture courtsey of Phil Harman

THANK YOU - Ann Donohoe from Highland Park Distillery organised a whisky tasting event earlier in the year and raised an amazing £10,080.04, this was then matched by the Edrington Group and The Robertson Trust bringing the total raised to £20,080.04. Pictured below handing over the cheque to UCANs Gayle Stephen is Ann and her husband Christopher. Thank you to everyone who attended the event and contributed to this terrific donation

THANK YOU - over the weekend of 1/2 September Wynford Farm held a charity weekend for UCAN. There were lots of activities for families to take part in, the main one being face your fears which saw Lord Provost Barney Crockett holding Tara the Tarantula, UCANs Gayle Stephen also faced her spider fear and went a bit further in holding a scorpion and snake. The open weekend raised the grand total of £8,046. Many thanks to George Hogg and all the staff at Wynford for making the weekend such a success, some pictures from the day, to see more pics go to the Wynford Farm Park Facebook page

THANK YOU - Norman (Norrie) Hart was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the middle of 2017, in early 2018 following surgery and post op treatment and care from the UCAN Centre and ARI Norrie decided to take part in the final 140km of the Camino de Santiago trek to raise funds and awareness for UCAN. To date Norrie has raised a terrific £1,685.61 for UCAN, Norrie is pictured in the beautiful sunshine outside the Cathedral in Santiago North West Spain, thank you so much for choosing UCAN to benefit from your trek

THANK YOU - The Stickle family took part in the Great Aberdeen Run and raised an amazing £739.23 for UCAN, pictured with their medals are Mum Patricia who took part in the 10k along with daughters Cara and Ellen who did the 1/2 marathon, thank you very much ladies for choosing UCAN as your charity to run for

UPDATE - UCAN fundraisers have been having a busy time raising lots of cash and awareness of the charity, fundraising stories and pictures coming up

INFO - The UCAN Centre will be closed on Monday 24 September for the local public holiday

UCAN CENTRE INFO - to make it easier for patients to contact the UCAN Nurses we have a new generic email address which will go to all the nurses Debbie, Katy, Lesley and Linda, this way if anyone is off emails won't sit unanswered. The address is as follows nhsg.ucannurses@nhs.net

EVENT - Justine Royle, UCAN Chair and Consultant Urological Robotic Surgeon will be the speaker at Tech20: Robotic Surgery and ROVs at The Oil & Gas Technology Centre on Friday 14 September, 12.30-13.30, there are still a few places available, please see the link below for registration form
https://www.theogtc.com/…/2018/tech20-r obotic-surgery-and…/…

Wonderful centre and wonderful work. Thank you so much

Fantastic bunch of staff really gave me much needed support keep up fantastic and hard work x

Can't thank ucan centre enough before my op and after lovely friendly staff

Wonderful centre and wonderful work. Thank you so much

Fantastic bunch of staff really gave me much needed support keep up fantastic and hard work x

Can't thank ucan centre enough before my op and after lovely friendly staff