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Step Forward for Prostate Health: Join the Wolverhampton Sponsored Walk on Father’s Day

08/06/2025
Walk for prostate health

Former student of the University, Junior Hemans, (1989 - 1995 BA Business and an MBA), and founder of prostrate support group, Brothers Reaching Out to/for Support (BROS), leads sponsored walk raising awareness of prostate health, in West Park, Sunday 15 June 2025. 

This Father’s Day, (Sunday 15 June) the community is invited to take meaningful steps toward better men’s health by joining a Sponsored Walk for Prostate Health in West Park, Wolverhampton. 

Organised in partnership with Prostate Cancer UK (PCUK) and local support group BROS (Brothers Reaching Out to/for Support), the event aims to raise awareness of prostate cancer — a disease that affects 1 in 4 Black men during their lifetime.

A personal mission turned community movement

The walk is spearheaded by a University of Wolverhampton alumnus and Visiting Lecturer at the Business School, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer after a routine PSA test at age 52. Junior's early diagnosis led to timely treatment and inspired him to found BROS in 2015 — a support group that now boasts over 50 members and works closely with Prostate Cancer UK (PCUK).

“ After 4 years annual surveillance I was eventually treated for prostate cancer. My cancer was caught very early, so I avoided intrusive surgery.  The earlier a man gets himself checked, the more of the man we can save — and hopefully his life,” he says. “Men need to talk within their families, especially to their sons and nephews, to break the cycle of late diagnosis.”

As Chair of PCUK’s Black Men’s Health Advisory Group, Junior has been instrumental in national advocacy efforts, including presenting at the House of Commons and contributing to the development of PCUK’s impactful 1 in 4 campaign. The campaign used names familiar within the Black community to ensure that men reading this felt associated and would hopefully take action.

Junior now also represents PCUK on the International Transform Independent Scientific Advisory Group. This is an international study of various trials underway to treat prostate cancer.

Why join the walk?

  • Raise awareness: Help spread the message about the importance of early testing, especially in high-risk communities.

  • Honour loved ones: Walk in support of the men in your life — or in memory of those lost to prostate cancer.

  • Build community: Join families, friends, and advocates in a shared mission for change.

This local event mirrors PCUK’s annual March for Men in London’s Battersea Park, bringing the same spirit of solidarity and hope to Wolverhampton.

"This year we are holding the walk on Father's day to try and get more impact and encourage individuals and families to walk in support of a man or men in their families or in the names of men, who are no longer with us.” 

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Registration opens at 9.30am at the Park Avenue entrance, with the walk beginning promptly at 10am. For enquiries, email: bros.health@outlook.com.

 

Whether you're walking for a father, brother, uncle, friend — or for yourself — your steps can help save lives.

Sponsored walk for prostate health 15 June poster

For more information please contact the Corporate Communications Team.