Purple For Prostate in Westbury, Tasmania | Community group

Purple For Prostate

Locality: Westbury, Tasmania

Address: 7 Lonsdale Promenade 7303 Westbury, TAS, Australia

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25.01.2022 It's on. Early morning walk with the dog and I have more than half my daily steps done. It's not too late to register if you would like. Or if you would like to sponsor, just let me know

23.01.2022 KNITTERS & CROCHETERS Purple For Prostate launches their Caring Squares Project! Purple For Prostate, with the support of the Westbury RSL, has launched a project to make handmade blankets for those less fortunate this winter. WE NEED HELP WHILST YOU ARE HOME KEEPING SAFE AND WELL! We need help with knitting and crocheting. We need your unwanted balls of 8ply acrylic wool in any colour. We need you now! ... Our plan is to make up blankets using 30 knitted or crocheted squares or a combination of both. The squares must be 21cm by 21 cm square. Ideally the knitted squares will be made using the miracle square design. We suggest a 4 or 4.5 knitting needle and 4-5 crochet hook sizes. Any colour combination will be perfect as we will be making blankets for males and females. One square or 10 squares - every square counts. But please sew in your tails. This will help us when it is time to sew them all up. Thank you for this! If you have all you need to make squares, please let us know you are out there by replying on Facebook or emailing us at [email protected] so we know to expect your squares at some time. Completed squares can be dropped anytime to Jo’s place at 87 Dexter Street Westbury. Please place them in a waterproof bag and leave on a chair on the front veranda. If you have wool to donate, please leave on Jo’s veranda too. Just drop and go all good! We can also arrange safe socially-distanced pick up if required. If you need wool, knitting needles or a crochet hook, a 21cm x 21cm template, please let us know and we will do our best to get these for you. Whilst this will be an ongoing project, we are hoping to have at least 300 squares made by the 10th of June so we can sew up our first 10 blankets for local support services as soon as possible. From our Purple Hearts to yours, thank you for supporting Purple For Prostate as we do our best to support those in need in Northern Tasmania.

22.01.2022 It's back! Burger night returns to the RSL on Thursday 13th August fortnightly. Bookings are essential. All meals to be eaten in the dining room. Take-aways to... be picked up in the dining room. Take-aways are for pick up between 5.30 And 6pm, table service starts at 6pm Phone 63931313 to book your table or place your take-away order. See more

21.01.2022 Thank you so much to our generous supporters. 32 bags of food, linen, pjs, slippers, toiletries and your beautiful handmade blankets on their way to support Magnolia Place

20.01.2022 Hey guys, this is the 'recipe' for knitting the squares for our blankets. It depends on the wool. You don't knit it as a square. You start with 3 stitches then increase (knit 1,knit into the front and back of next stitch) at the beginning of every row until side edge measures 21cm then you decrease (knit 1, slip 1, knit 1 then pass slip stitch over) at the beginning of every row until there are 3 stitches then cast off. Doing a square this way doesn't go out of shape. It is actually a diamond.

18.01.2022 Tickets can be purchased at the RSL

17.01.2022 Purple For Prostate Mother’s Day Raffle 1st prize-Gourmet Hamper 2nd prize-Hand knitted rug and earrings 3rd prize-Pamper pack Tickets $2 each or 3 for $5. Drawn and delivered Friday 8th May. ... If you would like tickets, please message me how many and we will put your name in our ledger to collect funds when it is safe to do so. We appreciate your support. Take care and keep safe. So far $26,000 to Cancer Council in 26 months! See more

15.01.2022 Come see me (Katrina) at the RSL to register and get your form. Send us a message for more information. First 50 will receive a purple pedometer.

12.01.2022 Purple For Prostate (P4P) Purple For Prostate is a small group of ladies in Westbury trying their hardest to raise funds and awareness for Prostate Health in Northern Tasmania. P4P is a Westbury RSL Sub Branch health and well-being program. The P4P team have donated an amazing $26,000 to the Cancer Council of Tasmania since February 2018. These funds are used specifically to provide financial support for PSMA PET scans for prostate cancer patients who are unable to fund thi...s critical next step in their cancer treatment. PSMA PET scanning greatly assists in localising the extent of prostate cancer. It can do this not only in the area of the prostate but also in the lymph glands and bones. As a result, therapy can be targeted more appropriately. PSMA PET scans are not Government funded. Locally in Westbury, the P4P prostate health awareness campaign has included public forums, presentations to service groups, distribution of Cancer Council printed material and counsellor training sessions. They have also made and delivered pamper packs to carers of prostate cancer patients. If you would like to know more about Purple For Prostate, please email [email protected]. Prostate health - let's talk about it!

09.01.2022 Some of our blankets we have sent into the Launceston Women's Shelter

08.01.2022 Mother's Day limited offer. $5 cello wrapped coat hanger with Mother's Day tag. Gift tags made to order. Options are:... Happy Mother's Day With Love Thank You Just Because I Care Limited number

07.01.2022 These are the choice of gift tags if anyone was interested in buying the coat hangers for mother's day

07.01.2022 It starts Thursday. Message me if you want to register

02.01.2022 Results for our raffle 1st S. Thomas 2nd G. Smith 3rd D.West... Thank you all for your support. We reached our target of $400

01.01.2022 Another huge thank you to our Purple For Prostate supporters for their generous donations of hamper items, wool, knitted squares, finished handmade blankets, time and love to enable us to deliver our third car load to Magnolia Place since we started our Caring Squares project. Who would have believed our initial car load to Deloraine House in May would lead to this amazing support for the Launceston Women's Shelter.

01.01.2022 Congratulations to our Mother’s Day raffle winners: 1st TP, 2nd CP and 3rd KC. Winners will be contacted to arrange delivery. Thank you so much for your generous support in buying tickets which raised $405 for Purple For Prostate to add to the $55 raised in coat hangers sales. Still a few coat hangers left for last minute gifts for mum, Grandma or your mother-in-law! We can arrange Westbury delivery anytime Saturday.