The GFCT Blog

We are always striving to spread awareness about the importance of early diagnosis and how it can be life saving. Keep up with our news at the charity as well as industry-wide updates through our blog and social media platforms.


01/08/2019

More Team Strengthening

01 Aug, 2019 |
I'm delighted to announce the appointment of Clare Brown BEng(Hons) FCCA as a Trustee with immediate effect. Clare graduated from Brunel University in 1995 with an Engineering Degree after which she embarked on an Accountancy career qualifying as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 2002. I've known and worked with Clare for over 20 years now and not only does she bring a wealth of financial and accountancy experience to the charity, she's been closely involved with it since inception 15 years ag...
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01/08/2019
At the same time as we welcome Clare I'd like to pass on my deep and sincere thanks from all of us to my wife Sue who's standing down as a Trustee, after working her socks off since day one back in 2004. All of you who've had dealings with us will know we could never have achieved half of what we have without her incredible and practical support. I'm sure we'll all still see her from time to time!
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01/08/2019
We've recently launched a very exciting £25,000 project to enable all men wanting a test to be able to not only register online but also to be able to access their result online should they so wish - although existing postal and email facilities will still be offered. We hope to launch the scheme fully in 2020 having run progressive trials in the period September to November 2019. Not only will this bring the turnaround period down from possibly 2/3 weeks to 2/3 days - it will also open up "self...
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19/06/2019
Our New Trustee - Susan HartI’m delighted to announce the appointment of Susan Hart as aTrustee of the Charity with immediate effect. I’ve known Susan for over 30 years as a successfulbusinesswomen, running a training company. She’s got a wealth of experience inthe field of event management and sales and marketing, has great contacts inthe rugby world and I’m sure will help take the charity to the next level.  I’m very excited at the thought of workingwith her to ensure the charity grows. O...
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03/06/2019

Thank you!

03 Jun, 2019 |
We apologise for the delay in managing to sincerely thank our supporters including Martin Langdon from Wadebridge in Cornwall who's annual "Christmas Lights Spectacular " in his garden garden has become a feature of the towns Christmas celebrations. Martin has done this for a number of years and donates all the proceeds from his Charity Collection each year to good causes. Having been tested by us in the past Martin very generously selected us as the recipient for his 2018 extravaganza! [gallery...
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02/06/2019

A Change Of Name!

02 Jun, 2019 |
 Given the Charity has now been in operation for some fifteen years and has established its own identity during this time. Its title has been simplified to "GFCT". This certainly makes things easier when answering the telephone!
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02/06/2019
 One of the Groups we work closely with- PCaSO have been developing an online booking system which will hopefully not only make the bigger events more manageable but will also be a huge help in helping us uplift more details to the to our database. Look out for more on this in the future !!!
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02/06/2019
Indeed we have been flat out testing ourselves and sending out results for other groups. In March we sent out 4,048 results, in April 2,763 and in may it looks to be well over a thousand.
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19/02/2019
Kicking off the year with the first Statistics of 2019!#PSATests #KnowyourscorePlease see latest detailed statistics that have now been added to the Download section of our website: LINK 
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29/01/2019

Hello & Goodbye

29 Jan, 2019 |
We would like to say a big "welcome" to Naomi Chapman who has joined us as Event Coordinator and General Administration Manager with effect from 1st January 2019 to take over the role undertaken by Dave Skinner who left us on the 25th January to take up a role within the NHS Safeguarding team. The good news is Naomi has been working with us part time for some months, mainly helping Dave in getting out the PSA results as quickly as we can.Naomi has been known to me personally for over five years ...
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