Hello and welcome to August’s newsletter. Welcome also to our new members who joined us at August’s meeting. It’s been a busy summer, so the Newsletter is brief this month: Here is a quick roundup of dates for the diary and events.
Meeting with Stamford & Rutland Group
Come and join us and members of the Stamford and Rutland Support Group for an end of summer picnic at Burghley Park (weather permitting) from 12pm. Friends and family are all welcome. The more the merrier to make the most of the end of summer. If anyone needs a lift, please, please call Helen on 07790856801. There is plenty of parking at Burghley and its free. If the weather is bad, please do check with Helen before setting off as the event may be cancelled.
4th September Meeting
We have Susan Mcilhagga joining the September Meeting as our guest speaker. She is a solicitor at Buckles Solicitors. Sarah will be giving a talk on wills, care home fee issues, powers of attorney and trusts. She will be covering a lot of ground in her talk. She will be bringing information sheets and guides with her to the talk. There will be time after her talk for questions on any of the topics raised.
2nd October Meeting
The breast care nurses will be attending our October meeting. Please arrive by 6.45pm for a prompt start at 7.00pm. If anyone has any questions for the nurses please email helen.saggers@ntlworld.com or send a WhatsApp message before the meeting
6th November Meeting
Michelina from Reika Well-being will be joining us as our guest speaker. She offers various alternative therapy treatments. She has undertaken an Oncology Lymphatic Draining course and has recently added a new holistic treatment – Emotional Release Hand & Foot Relaxology.
Thursday 4th December: Group Christmas Meal
There will be no meeting at the Holiday Inn West this month.It is replaced by our Xmas Meal. The venue this year is The Black Horse at Elton. We can’t wait as it’s always a great night out.
Shout Out:
A Big Thank you to Marion and her friend from Slimming World who raised over £52 for the Group from a bric and brac stall. Great work.
View this month’s full newsletter : August 2025
July 2025
Thank you to Roma for chairing the July meeting and welcome to our new members who joined the meeting.
This month’s speaker:
The speaker for the evening was Naomi Barnes from The Wellbeing Centre, Peterborough. Naomi is a Macmillan Cancer Wellbeing Specialist (Nurse). All her career has been in cancer care. She explained the services and support that are available at the Centre. There is a change of hours for the Centre Monday-Thursday 10.00-3.00 pm and for calls 9.00 am to 4.00 pm. If you leave a message someone will endeavour to get back to you by the next day.
The Centre has lots of advisors, counsellors, arts and crafts, complimentary therapies, beauty, nutrition advice, strength and balance classes and a lot more. For complimentary therapies such as massage a screening will be undertaken first to make sure a massage is safe for you. Art therapies are offered for example acrylic pool painting, mosaics working in a group. These are very social activities where you get to meet other people and learn from each other. You can make hairdresser appointments, alternate Thursdays, for wigs and any hairstyles should you like to discuss. Claire the physiotherapist also provides physio and is available Monday-Thursday she will provide an initial assessment then follow up appointments.
If you want to volunteer go through the NHS website clicking onto volunteers, they will then provide the basic induction training and then it goes on to be yearly. If you go, ahead and become a volunteer you can apply for a specific area where you would like to volunteer. Get involved you can meet other volunteers and make a difference to someone just by listening.
The Cancer Wellbeing Service: Call: 01733 678570, Email: nwangliaft.cancerwellbeing@nhs.net
PBCSG Strawberry Tea:
What a great event this was. A huge thank you to Helen and Peter for hosting the event in their lovely garden. Thank you to Denise and her husband for manning the Tombola so brilliantly. A big thanks to Lidl for providing the scones, strawberries, jam and cream (arranged by Carole’s daughter). Thanks to Zoe for supplying the milk and to all those who turned up on the day to help and support the event. We raised over just over £800 which was amazing. Lovely photo taken by Helen’s grandson, among many great photos he took of the day.
Trip to Eloise, Milton Keynes:
Another lovely trip to Eloise for bra fittings and purchases. The staff are truly lovely; nothing is too much trouble. A morning of shopping followed by a pub lunch. For those who could not make the July trip and would like to go another can be arranged either in the autumn or in the new year.
Read the full newsletter here: July Newsletter 2025
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