Tuesday, September 21, 2010

ASB this month...

We are very excited to announce as a result of support from ASB Bank, New Zealand Gynaecological Cancer Foundation donation boxes will be in ASB Banks from 20 to 30 September.

The donation boxes hold our new wallet cards detailing signs and symptoms of gynaecological cancers.

The donation boxes display a BEAT poster, featuring Beth Allen, our new Ambassador.


NZGCF on Good Morning

The girls at NZGCF have been very busy this month organising various different events and interviews around the place.

Last week I appeared on Good Morning, and had a bit of a chat with Sarah Bradley, one of the hosts. We had a pre recorded interview on the 8th the same day as the Parliamentary 'Share & Care' veeeeeeeeery early that day (hope you can't tell), and it aired last Wednesday the 15th . One of the AUT girls, Courtney accompanied me to the studio and we had a ball!

Sarah was very lovely, and it didn't even seem like there were cameras around! I also managed to meet the rest of the team (Brendan, Hayden and Asta) and Courtney and I were interviewed for a separate piece about our perfect wedding proposal!

All in all a great day :)

Check it out here.



Sunday, September 12, 2010

Mid - September update

What a busy couple of weeks since last blog!

Awareness month is flying by and people all over the country are getting involved and running Share and Care events to help spread the word on Gynaecological cancers and boost awareness.

As part of awareness month, publicity opportunities have been keeping me busy around training training. I headed to Wellington last week where I filmed an interview for the the Good Morning show (to air next wed) and the Share and Care event at Parliament with the rest of the team from the New Zealand Gynaecological Cancer Foundation. We had a really receptive audience and I think everyone in attendance learnt plenty!

Louise Upston was our host for the day and we were all very grateful for her efforts organising the venue and attendees, it was much appreciated, the event would not have got off the ground without her generous effort.

Hopefully the day helped all those in attendance personally as well as educating them about all of the good work foundation has been doing and our hopes for the future. The day was an important step in obtaining government support for our reasonably young foundation. It also shows how far we have come in a year, our main share and care in 2009 was held in a boat shed!

Im a bit of a morning/afternoon tea connoisseur, this was one of the best yet, a big thanks to Gabrielle for organising this, the cupcakes were devine! After the share and care we had a little photo-shoot on the steps of parliament! Thursday it was back to reality at 7am!
Check out the team and I below: