This is a picture of three of my four grandchildren.

Please donate whatever you can and consider joining us on the walk and getting sponsors of your own. It will be based around Edale in the Peak District. .

Alice writes the words below and explains why Amelie is missing from the photo. 

If you were to look at the camera roll on my phone over the last four weeks, then you’d find it littered with photos of these three children. Madeline, Lucas and my darling nephew Arthur. Each photograph is missing someone though. That’s because four weeks ago today, my four year old niece, Amelie was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. An absolutely terrifying diagnosis that our family had already contended with when our Mum passed away four years ago from a brain tumour. No parent, no family should have to go through what her parents are going through right now.

 Today should have been Amelie’s first day of primary school. She didn’t get a photo taken in front of the door in her new school uniform. Instead she was in the operating theatre once again at the hospital where she’s been for the last four weeks. 

As a family we are broken but we want to do something positive to help. 

On Saturday the 24th of September, Madeline, Lucas and Arthur (albeit on my back) will be hiking the Walk Of Hope, 15 miles to fundraise for Brain Tumour Research. It seems incredible that this disease, which takes more young lives than any other cancer type, receives only  1% of all cancer research spending. .

Arthur is too young to understand that he’s been away from his Mummy and Daddy for four weeks now but one day I hope that he can tell his sister that whilst she was in hospital and he spent his time with Auntie Alice and his cousins, that he did an amazing thing and raised money for a charity at just 8 months old!! Please, if you can donate even just £1 then do. Words genuinely can’t begin to describe the devastation and pain that a diagnosis like this brings with it.