fundraising and awareness

We hold a number of awareness-raising sessions at various events and venues in Eastbourne and the local area to inform people about the group. We provide leaflets which briefly explain about prostate cancer, treatments such as surgery and radiotherapy and what men should do if they are worried or concerned.

The Eastbourne prostate cancer support group started up in 2002 but we did not begin fund-raising until 2008. Since then we have raised over £50,000 thanks to the generosity of our donors. The money has been spent on projects that benefit prostate cancer patients and more broadly urology and oncology patients at Eastbourne District General Hospital. These include:

2009

£7,727 - Bladder Scanner
£9,995 - Prosurgics Freehand Robotic Camera Arm

2013

£2,666 - PCaSO Quiet Room
£500 - Donation to complementary therapeutic massage in Oncology Outpatients

The PCaSO Quiet Room is one of our proudest achievements. Men, their partners and the Clinical Nurse Specialists had complained of lack of privacy when returning to get biopsy test results. The environment was not conducive to helpful discussion. The PCaSO Quiet Room has created a better space for these conversations that is not clinical and subject to interruptions. In 2019, the room was relocated during the refurbishment and expansion of the Urology Investigations Suite.

2014

£500 - Donation to complementary therapeutic massage in Oncology Outpatients
£10,000 - Template Biopsy Kit
£500 - Donation to University of Southampton Research Project for GP education on prostate cancer

2015

£500 - Donation to Mindfulness programme for Macmillan Counselling Service at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

2017

£13,037 - furniture in patient reception / waiting areas and interview rooms of Eastbourne DGH Radiotherapy Unit
£556 - urine analyser in Eastbourne DGH Radiotherapy Unit. Purchased with donations from family and friends of Ralph Richardson

2018
£788 - iPads with keyboards and covers to support the urology Clinical Nurse Specialists. The iPads enable the nurses to use the hospital WiFi to update records whilst in / in between clinics rather than having to wait until they return to a desk top computer in the office.
£490 - urine analyser for the Urology Investigations Suite (UIS)
£405 - platform lift to aid mobility onto the examination couches in UIS at Eastbourne DGH
2019

£940 - toward the cost of a Penny Brohn UK Living well with Cancer course in Eastbourne in May 2019
£1,172 - recliner chair for after prostate biopsies
£320 - male pelvis model to assist teaching pelvic floor exercises
£288 - replacement blinds for relocated PCaSO Quiet Room

Thank you to all our generous supporters and donors.