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Live Music, food & drink at Rootz Coffee Lounge, Chorleywood WD3 5RB photographLive Music With The Wee, Plastic, Denture Band - Featuring Julian Shah and the Singing Surgeons 7.30pm on Friday 3rd Feb 2017 An evening of music, food & drink at Rootz Coffee Lounge, Chorleywood WD3 5RB

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Review of the December Support Group Meeting & Newsletter photographI am almost embarrassed to say that in our Christmas raffle I won the opera tickets and my daughter won the turkey! Thank heavens Peter Sorrell won the wine thereby, just about, saving our blushes! The wine was donated by Bryan Frewin who, looking the picture of health, made his annual pilgrimage to our meeting. Thank you, Bryan….see you next Xmas?! The raffle and other contributions raised £374 so thank you one and all. Little Marina Walton our next door neighbour’s daughter[...]

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Get Thee Down to Rickmansworth Waitrose... photographThe FOPS were chosen to be one of the three monthly charity’s for January who share the monthly £1000 prize between them, depending on how many green tokens each Charity attracts during January. So tell all your friends to join you on a daily shop at Waitrose, that would earn you 7 tokens a week. Even if you only buy a Newspaper you get a green token... See you in Waitrose !Bob

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A Fitting Finale of 2016

31st December 2016
The December FOPs Support Group Meeting was extremely well supported and at least 3 new members were made to feel welcome. The evening had an especially Christmas theme with songs led by Jim Spence and trusty guitar, excellent raffle and tasty nibbles provided by Gabrielle and her able team. Alvan Pope spoke in his usual entertaining yet most informative manner. Answering questions on a diverse range of medical matters. A fitting finale to a most successful 2016 series of FOPs Support Group M[...]

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Merry Christmas to One and All

24th December 2016
Merry Christmas to One and All photographOn behalf of 'The FOPS' we would like to wish all of our members and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays!

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Monstrous Movember 2016

4th December 2016
Monstrous Movember 2016 photographOver fifty souls were packed into Rootz Bistro in Main Parade Chorleywood for the annual Tiger Prostate Cancer Awareness Evening which was, as always, splendidly hosted by Phil and Cathy. The Friends of Prostate Sufferers Monstrous Movember as it was advertised this year, more than lived up to its name as Bobs Boys, all FOPS Singers, and Paul Jones’ Open Mikers entertained us regally as we ate delicious 'home made' watercress roulades, from the Chess, fresh tasty salads and pies and drank [...]

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An update about our next support group meeting - December 7th photographDear support group members, So where were you all on Wednesday evening? (Last support group meeting 42 of us, this month 17!)Either you have all made miraculous recoveries or you were too snug and cosy at home to venture out to deepest, darkest Chorleywood. On the night, we had Gayan (Guy) Chetiyawardana from Hillingdon/Mt Vernon, a Urology Advanced Practitioner, who gave a brilliant talk on radiotherapy which was of particular interest to one of our new members who was about to start treatmen[...]

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‘Curl A Mo’ for Movember - The Brilliant Song by the Mick Flinn Band photographWe are fortunate to be able to share this brilliant recording by Mick Flinn and his band ahead of Movember... The Mick Flynn Band - Curl a Mo The story behind this song starts back in Melbourne Australia in 1970. At the time, Mick Flinn was the lead singer/bass player of the pop group, The Mixtures. Although sceptical, Mick visited a clairvoyant by the name of Stevo for a reading and she quickly picked up strong feelings for bicycles. Unbeknown to her, Mick had recently been in the studio re[...]

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Coffee Morning for Macmillan at the Junction photographFrom Nine till Noon guitars played, first Ian Senior and then his friends Bob and Bob sang whilst coffee flowed and a host of Christ Church Parishioners and some FOPS (the Friends of Prostate Sufferers) ate delicious cakes as the sipped their Americanos and chatted away one to another as they guessed the number of decorative spots on the Macmillan cake... Later Dr Caroline, the world champion for the Triathlon, arrived and so did the lovely ladies from Sewell and Gardner.. twas then that the [...]

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New website now online!

16th September 2016
New website now online! photographWe are proud to announce the launch of the new FOPS website! Thank you to Derek, David and his team at DigitalFlare for producing a fantastic and functional looking website to help raise awareness and promote our support groups. We hope you enjoy the new look and look forward to updating the website with new content, useful information and details about upcoming events and fundraising events. Please if you have any comments about our website, do not hesitate to get in touch with us!

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Upcoming Events

3Sep 2025

FOPS Virtual Zoom Support Group Meeting (Wed 3th Sept 2025 Online)

Wednesday 3rd September 2025

From 7.45pm (for 8pm start) on Wed 3rd Sept 2025 we will be holding another Virtual Support Group meeting with our resident Consultant Urologists Read more...

27Oct 2025

14th Prostate Roadshow - October 27th 2025

Monday 27th October 2025

From 6.30pm until 9pm we will be hosting our 14th PSA Testing Roadshow at Christ Church in Chorleywood (WD3 5SG). Read more...

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Personal Stories

Uplifting Stories On the 21st and 23rd of December Dennis, a local popular garage owner, was told at Watford General hospital he had a PSA of 112 and then on retest 119. This blew his mind and in his words gave him 'high anxiety stress' which led him to contact the FOPS on Christmas Eve. Dennis talked to several FOPS... Read more...

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