On Saturday evening, 21st June, the Angel Mums will start a 33km summer solstice walk, in memory of our beautiful children. We will end our walk on Holkham beach at sunrise and honour our angels here together, in what we hope will be a special moment.

We will be wearing t-shirts with photos of our children, and are driven by a need to make a change, to honour their lives taken too soon. None of us wants to see others go through what our children have.

None of us wants other parents to face the devastation we now do.

Over the past 3 years, the Angel Mums have skydived, wing walked, climbed Snowdon, fire-walked, and campaigned our government to raise much-needed funds and awareness about the brutality and death sentence that a child diagnosed with a brain tumour faces.

Sadly, our group of mums continues to grow.

We have to do this because we’ve seen our children bravely face surgeries, chemo, radiotherapy, painful immunotherapy, countless drugs/tablets, MRI’s and needles. Can you imagine having to watch your child go through all of this, poisoning them with chemo that we knew would never work, knowing that it would only prolong, and not save their life?

Fact: Brain tumours are the biggest killer cancer of our children and adults under 40. This is a fact we never knew until it was too late, and the unthinkable happened, and our children were diagnosed with this killer disease.

The journey and treatment plans for these tumours haven’t changed for decades; not enough is being done to raise money for research. Historically, only 1% of government cancer research funding is spent on brain tumours – this is a devastating statistic- that we relive over and over every day and wonder why our children could not be saved.

When each of our children was diagnosed with a brain tumour, there wasn’t ANY hope for them at all and lots of our children were given a 0% chance of survival, which is just heartbreaking. The majority of our babies survived just a few months, some even weeks or days.

The Mums who are walking are the mums of;

Aubrey #forever3 who bravely fought DIPG for 9 months.

Charlie #forever5 who bravely fought Ependymoma for just under 3 years.

Isla #forever5 who bravely fought DIPG for 9 months.

Molly #forever6 who bravely fought Medulloblastoma for 4 years.

Emilia #forever7 who bravely fought Diffuse Midline Glioma for 11 months.

Emily #forever8 who bravely fought Diffuse Midline Glioma for 2 weeks.

Thomas #forever9 who bravely fought Diffuse High Grade Glioma for 9 months

Luke #forever9 who bravely fought Diffuse Midline Glioma for 37 months

George #forever13 who bravely fought a Glioblastoma for 11 months

Grace #Forever14 who bravely fought an Anaplastic astrocytoma & Glioblastoma for 2 years,7 months

Ethan #Forever17 who bravely fought a Glioblastoma for 25 months

Josh #forever18 who bravely fought Diffuse Midline Glioma for 3.5 years

And all of the other brain tumour angels and Angel Mums that we’ve met and lost along the way, of which there are too many.

We want to raise money for the Tessa Jowell Foundation, as it’s committed to funding and supporting the transformation of brain cancer treatment and care in the UK. The money we raise will go towards the Tessa Jowell Centres of Excellence for Children. The Tessa Jowell Foundation are striving to make a real difference in the area of paediatric brain tumours. Not only with research and precision medicine, but also importantly with the care children receive whilst going through this unbelievably devastating diagnosis.

We wouldn’t wish how we are feeling, on any other families and are determined to raise as much money as possible to enable The Tessa Jowell Foundation to continue their truly ground-breaking work.

Please support us if you can, it would mean the world to us.

Kindest,

The #AngelMums

Louise (George’s Mum), Nikki (Ethan's Mum), Laura (Taylan's Mum), Rebecca (Grace’s Mum), Michelle (Mia's Mum), Natasha (Renai's Mum), Nici (Charlie's Mum), Sarah (Emily's Mum), Stephanie (Isla's Mum), Suki (Raj's Mum), Ellie (Billy's Mum), Laura (Aubrey's Mum), Sammy (Molly's Mum), Louise (Thomas' Mum), Michelle (Josh's Mum), Liz (Emilia's Mum), Samantha (Luke's Mum) and our other fellow Angel Mums.