Social Media Campaigns

Feb 20

#RecipeForAFuture

January 2020 no only saw a new decade, but a new social media campaign for us at SCPN….#recipeforafuture #Recipeforafuture is more than a menu item it is a recipe for helping planet health and individual well-being including cancer prevention. Building on the Eat Lancet commission report which sets out guidance on what is a ...

Dec 19

#AlternativeAdvent

Commercial marketing has sold us that the Christmas countdown should include an Advent calendar chocolate before breakfast. In more recent years Advent calendars have become more extravagant with alcohol companies offering their own calendars including 24 miniature spirits for each day of Advent. Excess body fat is associated with ...

Sep 19

#portiondistortion

The availability of large food portions may be an important contributor in promoting excessive calorie intake. Of course this impacts on the likelihood of developing excess body weight and obesity related diseases including 13 types of cancer. The movie Supersize me highlighted the issues in mega style especially the marketing ...

Aug 19

#eatingoutwithkids

The SCPN’s August 2019 campaign saw our focus shift to #eatingoutwithkids and the often tricky dilemmas this can leave for parents. What we eat as children matters as it can impact our health and cancer risk all the way into adulthood. Eating out was once a special treat but in today’s busy society we find […]

Jul 19

#sackthesnack

July 2019 saw us launch our social media campaign #sackthesnack inviting readers to take the challenge of swopping one daily snack for alternative behaviours like taking 200 steps, doing a little #kettlecise stretching or maybe even standing and moving to take a short phone call. The rationale for focussing on snacks was because ...

Jun 19

#worksitewander

As a network which aims to promote a healthy lifestyle to lower the risk of cancer, we had a social media campaign running throughout May to promote health in the workplace. Through our twitter page we encouraged our followers to join in with our #worksitewander to get more people taking part in physical activity during their ...

Jan 18

#SouperFreshStart

Happy New Year! So to get straight into those resolutions, eating well, moving more and generally trying to keep ourselves tip top… we all know how important healthy diet and exercise are. Here at SCPN we wanted to give you some souper (pun intended) recipe ideas to try through January to help you hit […]

Oct 15

About A Bike

This month we are promoting cycling to encourage physical activity, as recommended in the recently published European Code Against Cancer. Look out for our Friday, Saturday and Sunday ideas #AboutABike to encourage beginners and those who haven’t cycled for a while to get out with pedals. The #AboutABike campaign is designed to ...

A thank-you message from the SCPN reading "Thank-you all for your support! We reached 83.4k people on Twitter alone! We'll be retweeting your wonderful #healthyshelfie throughout the day, but if you'd rather see everything together, visit storify.com/thescpn/healthyshelfie. Together, we can get everyone talking about cancer prevention.

Feb 15

Thankyou for your #healthyshelfie(s)!

We were delighted with the response to our recent #healthyshelfie social media campaign; thank you to everyone who got involved! We reached as many as 83.4 thousand people so, hopefully we’ve encouraged some healthy steps towards cancer prevention. Here’s a collection of some of the #healthyshelfie(s) that made there way ...

Dec 14

January is the month of the #healthyshelfie

January 2015 is the month of the #healthyshelfie, our latest social media campaign designed to help raise awareness about the preventability of cancer. We are focusing on the content of fridge shelves, and have asked/nominated folks to share their fridge contents with us and help illustrate all the lovely goodies that make up a ...