On March 24th, 2017, our life was turned upside down. Mum was en route to make a speech when she had two large seizures and was rushed to hospital. A week later we found out that she had a grade 4 tumour in the front left temporal lobe of her brain, and that she probably had less than a year to live.

Brain cancer is brutal:

- In the UK, 16,000 people each year are diagnosed with a brain tumour

- Less than 20% of brain tumour patients survive beyond five years of their diagnosis, whereas 86% of breast cancer and 51% of leukaemia patients survive beyond five years

- Brain tumours are the chief cause of cancer deaths in children and young people. In 2015, the number of children dying from cancer was 194, with brain tumours taking 67 young lives and leukaemia 46

- Brain tumours continue to kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer

Mum was a public servant to her core and has left many great legacies. We're determined to make her greatest legacy the beating of brain cancer, and I so hope you'll support that fight.

Thank you!