24th September 2009

It is with great pride and pleasure that we can announce that David Baxter-Smith (the Governor) has been presented with the Worcestershire Ambassadors Pride of Worcestershire Award 2009 for his work across the country with PSA testing and Prostate Cancer awareness. He was presented with it last week at the Worcester Ambassadors Summer Ball by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire Michael Brinton.  You will all be encouraged to learn that he accepted the award on behalf of those men, including his father, who have died from prostate cancer, who are currently fighting the disease and who are awaiting results etc to hear if they have the disease. Not forgetting the men to are going to be introduced to the concept of PSA awareness in the near future!!! Worcestershire Ambassador Achievements • Raising £90,000 for local charities in 5 years • Establishing communication between the county's "movers and shakers" • Creating the county's foremost social event - Ambassador's annual Ball • Recognising top achievers with the annual Pride of Worcestershire award

16th October   320  P.S.A.s at Warwick yesterday, a Town Hall meeting on Monday with our guest Tom O'Connor and more P.S.A.s and off to Great Yarmouth on Tuesday for another P.S.A. testing session where we expect another 300. We have now done over 10,000 nationwide!   I do have some links to other interesting sites which I would like to tell you all about in due course -  and I have not forgotten about the Picture Gallery which will appear on the website shortly. I will also up-date the website shortly about the statistics now that we have reached 10,000. David Baxter-Smith

30th September I am hoping to provide some pictures for the website soon when life quietens down a little!  We have in the last three weeks done another 1,000 P.S.A. tests and getting all the letters out has taken up a lot of time. I will also provide the website with an up-date of the statistics shortly.  We are off to Scotland on Friday for a weeks holiday and on return have P.S.A. testing sessions at Kidderminster, Warwick, Great Yarmouth and Bridgnorth. David Baxter-Smith

12th September 2009

Life has certainly been very busy; we have just returned from Hereford where we did 324 PSA tests and last week we were at Penrith where we did another 420!! So I now have the best part of 750 letters to get in the post. In all, we have now done almost 10,000 PSA tests and I hope to have up to date statistics for the statistics page on the website very soon.  I also hope to start a 'pictures gallery' on the website where we can display some of the memorable moments we have experienced together. Also, to let you know that the Bill Beaumont date has changed, please go to the diary of events page for details.

David Baxter-Smith

22nd January 2009

Firstly, a belated Happy New Year to you all. It seems ages since last I communicated with you - I apologise. P.S.A. testing nationwide is now taking up much of my time. So far we have done almost 7000 such tests and I know of 153 early, and in most cases, curable prostate cancers that we have found. We have a very full programme for 2009 and the first Port-of-Call next month will be at Mansfield. I am having some difficulty trying to attract celebrities to the group but still working on it and will let you know details for the Diary of Events as soon as I have them.

David Baxter-Smith

10th June 2008

I am pleased to say that Martin Bell, former BBC war correspondent and Independent Member of Parliament will be speaking in October - go to the diary pages for details. We have just returned from Wadebridge in Cornwall where we did another 258 PSA tests. Next week we are off to Leamington Spa for a similar session. I am working at some more 'celeb' speakers for the 2009 / 2010 programme and will let you know through the website when I have confirmations.

David Baxter-Smith

1st May 2008

It's been a busy few weeks. At Broadstairs we had about 600 come to the meeting on Prostate Cancer Awareness and 430 of these were men wanting a P.S.A. test which was a little unfortunate as we only had 400 needles and syringes! Then we had our Kidderminster meeting at which approximately 500 came and of these 280 wanted a blood test. Nick Owen was the guest speaker and he gave a very interesting and entertaining talk. This week we have a Golf Tournament in aid of Prostate Cancer and next week we are off to Wadebridge where we expect another 300 tests at least.

Nick Owen has agreed to become one of our patrons and his name will be added to the "Officers" section.  I suspect the coach trippers to Llangollen have had a super time. I was not able to go myself as I have been finishing off the last of the 700 letters giving the P.S.A. results.

 David Baxter-Smith