Asbl SuperNils
Monthly Newsletter
Month: October 2025
Illustrations: Canva Pro Licence
Important news items
SuperNils on lap!
Asbl SuperNils is on tour throughout the whole of Belgium. Right now, the interactive packages and materials are being distributed to all our partner hospitals. They will all receive our new VR boxes, LEGO packages and possibly the new "Wings of Hope" information folders. In addition, the new partners will also receive our movement kits (Resources Lifetime Grant Foundation Against Cancer) and the necessary explanation of our operation and online interactive packages.
We were well received everywhere. The new partners in particular were impressed by our offer. Hopefully, this will enable us to support many more patients in strengthening their mental well-being.
These hospitals and drop-in centres were visited in the month of October 2025: Casa Callenta Brasschaat / UZ Gent / UZ Liege / UZ Brussel / UZA / UZ Leuven / ZAS Cadix Antwerp. The new partners were FAT printed. The other partners will be featured in the month of November. You can read more about them and admire some photos in our NEWS section (see website).
We were selected for DWW 2025!
Vzw SuperNils was selected by the jury of The Warmest Week 2025 as one of the 220 projects that will be able to count on some support. The size of the budget obviously depends on the proceeds of this fine event. So all we can ask is to organise as many actions as possible and raise lots of pennies. Thanks for that!!!
Asbl SuperNils is going to use the funds to have an application developed specifically for AYAs (young adults) with cancer. We are doing this together with Casa Callenta, who have already raised funds last year and so can already have phase 1 realised. Purple Panda from Antwerp is the company we approached to do this. The young team is fully on board with the story and our wishes, which bodes well for a fine collaboration. This month, they have already started phase 1.
As a function of security and the rules around GDPR, we are again engaging a lawyer (Corbus Advocaten) so that we are fully compliant with these difficult regulations. Furthermore, we also talk to AYAs (via Sounding Board Group KOTK and open house Casa Callenta) to identify their wishes and needs. This way, we can fully tailor the application to what these people really need.
Recognition by BHS !!!
Asbl SuperNils receives great recognition by the Belgian Haematological Society. In their new brochure, our organisation is listed as the only patient organisation responsible for supporting AYAs with cancer in Belgium. And that is exactly what we want to be!
In this way, more people from the target group will be able to find us and engage with our packages.
Our podcast
AYAmplified ...
Next month, the trailer will be recorded in English. We will then start reaching out to AYAs, through the KOTK and Casa Callenta focus group, to ask for their participation in this podcast. For this project, we may also enter into a collaboration with UZ Leuven, who had just the same project idea as us. After all, SAMEN we can achieve much more!
After that, the first recordings can be realised.
Project operation
New projects are in the pipeline ...
That vzw SuperNils is a dynamic organisation has long been clear to you! We don't want to stand still, we want to keep growing our offer so that we can support more patients and provide even more distraction and relaxation. The offer should also be broad enough so that everyone can find their preferences in it. Therefore, we have new ideas again, which can be realised or at least started up in 2026.
° "NilspireMe": web application for AYAs with cancer (Funds DWW 2025 and possibly Social Grant 2026 Foundation Against Cancer).
° "SuperNils online Studio": online package with various opportunities to get creative and learn new things (Resources Social Grant 2025 - Foundation Against Cancer).
° "SuperNils Smartgames in a box": a box with various smartgames, with which one can spend hours, clear one's mind and train one's memory (Resources Lifetime Grant 2026 - Foundation Against Cancer).
° "SuperNils A challenge a day": a challenge for every day (or whenever you wish). Small, easy or slightly more difficult, challenges that you can achieve alone or with someone else.
° "SuperNils Poetry for Everyone": an online package of poems recited by well-known and less well-known people. To simply, quietly listen and watch.
In the spotlight
The codes for optimal use of our website
We would like to give you the two important codes, to have an optimal experience of our website. People who have indicated that they would like to become free members of our organisation have normally already received the first code. This will allow you to view all information without any barrier (only the info for board members is still protected):
#lidSupNilpass202408@
Now we are happy to provide a second code, which is normally only for our patients. With this code, you can also read all the information about the interactive packages we offer. That way, you can better follow what we are doing and how our offer is getting bigger and broader. Have fun with it!
@Mental202408Boost#
Walk for Ine
Show your good heart and support Erik De Ridder's walk from Ghent to Aosta for charity.
Donations enter the SuperNils Fund Ghent and support Professor Dr Tessa Kerre's scientific research. Donations are also tax deductible (from 40 euros).
Need more info or want to support right away? See to the QR codes opposite.
Asbl SuperNils goes for professionalism !!!
So we partnered with students from College AP from Antwerp and the University of Antwerp.
Within AP, it is the "digital and graphic design" department that is going to help us create a beautiful, fresh, modern and consistent house style. This house style (with specific font, recognisable colours and shapes and a dynamic logo) will be applied within the website, our mail traffic, presentations, social media, printed matter, promotional material and yes, even on our chairman's new car. The house style should make our organisation more recognisable and its correct application should make our messages stand out and stand out more. After some minor adjustments to the logo, we now need to grow towards a final design, one that offers a more professional look and stands out more. The house style guide will also have a place within the policy plan (quality chapter).
Within the University of Antwerp (UA), students from the "marketing and communication" department will work for us. Under the expert guidance of Frederik Picard, the students will work on our communication style. How do we present ourselves to entrepreneurs, how do we get companies to want to become partners of SuperNils, which communication style should we use, what should an e-mail look like and which words should we best avoid in our messages, how do we make optimal use of our website and social media, which media should we use and which should we not, how do we draw up a communication plan, ...
The students will give us a guideline provide, which we can then work with ourselves. Again, consistency will be important. Sticking to what we started, continuing the style in everything, so that recognisability increases and we achieve more positive results. Again, the material provided will have a place within our policy plan (chapter "quality").
Help requested
Are you our poet?
Would you like to read a beautiful poem for non-profit organisation SuperNils and cancer patients? It may be an existing poem, or something you have written yourself! Then contact robert.scheltjens@supernils.be and pass on your choice.
How do you proceed?
° Choose your poem.
° Recite it and film this with your mobile phone. Choose a nice, best anonymous, background.
° Please send your video, SAME with the text of the poem and, of course, its author, to robert.scheltjens@supernils.be.
° Also mention in the email that we may post the video and poem online.
Thanks in advance for your support in this great project!