by fightingprostatecancer | Mar 24, 2024 | Prostate Screening
We were invited to do a screening programme with the Freemason community in Nottingham. Since I personally moved from Burton Hospital to Peterborough, this was the first clinic outside Peterborough. It was wonderful to meet the people we had worked with before. As we...
by fightingprostatecancer | Jan 26, 2024 | Prostate Screening
We are invited by the Jalaram Mandir in Greenford, London to talk about prostate cancer. This is a special place for me as it was here that I got married. And Jalaram Bapa is special to me as he spent his life serving the people. Jalaram Bapa was a Hindu saint from...
by fightingprostatecancer | Jan 10, 2024 | Awards, Publicity
I want to thank everyone for their support and good wishes when I received my MBE from His Majesty King Charles. I want to dedicate my MBE to my father-in-law (Bapuji), Harilal Javer Solanki, who sadly died on 27th October 2023. When the news of my MBE became...
by fightingprostatecancer | Jan 1, 2024 | Campaigns, Prostate Screening
Our first clinic on a ‘Health Outreach Bus’ was outside Peterborough Town Hall on a freezing and rainy day. Nevertheless, we were surprised that a long queue of men was waiting for a check-up before we had set up. By 9 am, before our official start, all the fifty...
by fightingprostatecancer | Sep 3, 2023 | Campaigns, Events
Belgrave Neighbourhood Centre is in the heart of inner city Leicester. It’s a community facility very popular with the locals, with a host of grassroots communities living side by side. Kirit Mistry of the South Asians Health Action (SAHA) invited me. SAHA is...
by fightingprostatecancer | Aug 7, 2023 | Campaigns, Events
One significant advantage of Asian communities is that they still have a central base where they get their members together to hold events and provide valuable support and services. I was invited to the Mandhata Samaj in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. As part of their...
by fightingprostatecancer | Jul 16, 2023 | Campaigns, Events
It was enthralling. It was colourful. It was wonderful. It would be when a group of over 500 ladies celebrate their annual event. I was invited to speak about my work and life at the Navnat Vanik Bhagini Samaj Celebration: Triveni Sangam. Whilst I presented some...
by fightingprostatecancer | Jun 11, 2023 | Campaigns, Events
It was wonderful to talk about prostate cancer at the Mind, Body & Soul Health & Wellbeing Fair at Oshwal Centre on Sunday, 11 June 2023. More than one thousand people attended the event, including local dignitaries. There were seven zones focused on topics...
by fightingprostatecancer | Apr 18, 2023 | Campaigns, Events
When a group of local businessmen get together, they don’t always talk about the latest in finance or the state of the economy. So, it was strange when I got invited – a small me – to talk about prostate cancer to a group of tall gentlemen. The Burton Club, based in...
by fightingprostatecancer | Mar 30, 2023 | Campaigns, Events
In the last few months, I have been invited to talk to a number of grassroots communities about prostate cancer. This time it was the Jain community based in London. Only a few years ago, it was difficult for people to get interested in the subject, even if their...
