Category: Fundraising

Andy Foote and Tim Burchell, along with friends Mark Roberts and Steve Verrall, have completed the world-renowned 500-mile Camino de Santiago walk across northern Spain, raising over £52,000 for The Brain Tumour Charity.

Lewis Moody MBE is heading up a small, elite team taking on the ultimate charity challenge: The headeast Extreme Cycle Challenge; a 1,000km endurance event from Vietnam to Cambodia, this December.

St Andrews Fashion Show (FS) has announced it is partnering with The Brain Tumour Charity for the 2017 event in a bid to raise vital funds for treatments to tackle the disease.

Between 10 – 14 July 2017, we’ll be hosting our first ever bespoke trek abroad, amongst the mossy lava plains, hot springs, mountains and geysers of Iceland.

The Twilight Walk returns with three favourite locations for 2016; Warwick, Chester and Windsor.

Having lost her Mum to a brain tumour in 2007, Sarah Lambkin embarked on an extreme challenge to raise funds towards finding a cure.

We will use every day of March to make our voice heard, on behalf of everyone everywhere whose life has been affected by a brain tumour.

Get involved with our Bandanas for Brain Tumours campaign this year. By joining us and wearing it out, you can raise awareness of brain tumours and vital funds for research into early diagnosis.

We’re aiming to tackle the issue of late diagnosis of brain tumours. For this to happen we’ve enlisted the support of researchers, GPs and our community, to drive awareness and effect change to diagnosis times. Spearheading this Christmas Campaign is Sophie O’Hagan.

“Keep going because I promise you, you will succeed. Any dream you have, just smash it.”

Chris White, MP for Warwick and Leamington, joined hundreds of supporters for our Warwick Twilight Walk last Sunday, writing about it on his website.

Our ten year old supporter Amelia Gebruers won a Pride of Britain award for her fundraising achievements.

Last week, many people were talking about remembering charities in Wills. We invited Tim Clarke, who has lived with a brain tumour for five years, to share his thoughts.

Having left New York on 3 May 2015, Tom and Lawrence arrived in Salcombe Harbour at 16:53 today, becoming the youngest duo to row the Atlantic unaided.

On 3 May 2015 Lawrence Walters and Tom Rainey started an extraordinary challenge. For the best part of three months since then, they have been rowing from New York to Salcombe in Devon across the treacherous North Atlantic Ocean.

Anne and Vanessa, the mums of Tom and Lawrence who are currently at sea for three months raising funds for The Charity, share some words about their sons. (Wednesday 01 July)

The Brain Tumour Charity has been shortlisted to the final stages of the Masonic Samaritan Fund Silver Jubilee Research Fund vote, for a chance to be awarded a grant of £100,000 to fund our Centre of Excellence at University College London.

On Saturday 30 May, Farnborough Sainsbury’s held a balloon release and race to mark the end of their year long partnership with The Brain Tumour Charity.

Should donors and fundraisers have more choice over where their money is spent? It’s an ongoing debate among charities not just in the UK, but all over the world.