Thank you for coming to our page. This is the second running of The Northern Joe Cup an event designed to both showcase the amazing sport that is squash but also to raise awareness of the impact of brain tumours on young people. 

Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under 40. In the UK over 12,000 people are diagnosed each year with a primary brain tumour, including 500 children and young people, that's 33 people every day. Over 5,300 people lose their lives to a brain tumour each year.

We lost our son Joe at the age of 26 in January of 2020 to an aggressive brain tumour that was diagnosed very late and his brother Isaac wanted to run this event each year in Joe's memory and to help raise awareness. Joe was an amazing, funny, gifted, compassionate, loving and faithful individual much loved by his friends and family and taken way too soon. If you want to learn more about Joe's story you can find it here:

https://www.thebraintumourcharity.org/get-involved/our-supporter-groups/supporter-groups/groups/northern-joes-fund/

We are raising funds through this event for the Brain Tumour Charity, the world's leading brain tumour charity and the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally. Committed to saving and improving lives, the Brain Tumour Charity are moving further and faster to help every single person affected by a brain tumour. They are set on finding new treatments, offering the highest level of support and driving urgent change and they are doing it right now.

All too often Brain Tumours are diagnosed too late and as a family we wanted to make sure that other families are given more time with their loved ones by educating people on the symptoms of Brain Tumours to ensure an earlier diagnosis.