On 2nd December this year, we will be walking from the Houses of Parliament to Great Ormond Street Hospital together in memory of our beautiful children, each taken too soon by a brain tumour.

We will be wearing Angel Wings and proudly carrying photos of our children, we are driven by a need to make a change in memory of our children. None of us want to see others go through what our children have.

Over the past 2 years the Angel Mums have skydived, wing walked, climbed Snowdon and firewalked 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 is growing.

We are spurred on because we’ve seen our children so 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 knowing that it would only prolong, and not save their life?

Fact: Brain tumours are the biggest killing 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 terrible disease.

The journey and treatment plans for these tumours mostly hasn’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!

When each of our children were diagnosed with their brain tumour, there simply wasn’t ANY hope for them at all and lots of our children were given a 0% chance of survival which is just heart-breaking.

The Mums who are walking are the mums of;

Aubrey #forever3 who bravely fought DIPG for 9 months.

Billy #forever4 who bravely fought DIPG for 5 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.

Taylan #forever6 who bravely fought Medulloblastoma for 8 months.

Betsy #forever6 who bravely fought DIPG for 11 months

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

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

Raj #forever 8 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 6 years.

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

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

Renai #forever11 who bravely fought Diffuse Midline Glioma for 8 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

Mia #forever14 who bravely fought an Optic Nerve / pathway Glioma for 9 years

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 sadly there are too many.

We would like 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 development and roll out of 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 so importantly with the care children receive whilst going through this unbelievably devastating diagnosis.

We wouldn’t wish how we are feeling now, 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.

With the money we’ve raised so far we have supported the Tessa Jowell Foundations Children’s Centers of Excellence.

We hope to raise in excess of £20,000 and make a real difference to children with brain tumours and their families.

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.