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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Please make a donation to support our<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Head<span style="color: #ff0066;">Smart</span><span style="color: #d50066;"> </span>– be <span style="color: #ff0066;">brain tumour</span> aware </strong>campaign, which aims</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> to reduce the time it takes to diagnose children and young people with brain tumours in the UK. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Head<span style="color: #ff0066;">Smart</span><span style="color: #d50066;"> </span>– be <span style="color: #ff0066;">brain tumour</span> aware </span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">is a major new campaign from Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust, developed in collaboration with doctors and researchers from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre at University of Nottingham and The Health Foundation. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">We need your help to deliver the </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Head<span style="color: #ff0066;">Smart</span><span style="color: #d50066;"> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">campaign for quicker diagnosis and improved outcomes for those affected by a brain </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">tumour. Reducing the time to diagnosis should reduce the long term disability that many children and young people diagnosed with a brain tumour currently experience.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Make a donation today; whether it’s £5 or £500 it will make a difference to children who need our help. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The funds received from this page will be received by Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust and used to fund the HeadSmart project and future work on earlier diagnosis of brain tumours.</span></em></p>
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