Yasmin Stannard

Fight4Amani's Luton Walk of Hope 2024

Fundraising for Brain Tumour Research
£2,190
raised of £2,500 target
Event: Walk of Hope 2024, on 28 September 2024
In memory of Amani Liaquat
Fight4Hope
Campaign by Brain Tumour Research (RCN England and Wales 1153487, Scotland SC046840)
We will do everything in our power, with the amazing help and support of family and friends, to help raise as much money as we possibly can to help fund brain cancer research through our Fundraising Group Fight4Hope for Brain Tumour Research.

Story

2½ years without my eldest daughter, Amani.

Ravaged by brain cancer for the last 22 months of her life. The most aggressive cancer, Glioblastoma, took root in her brain in 2020 and took her life so brutally and so devastatingly in 2022.

The trauma of it that illness has robbed me of being able to remember my Amani before she was ill and even the Amani when she was ill. My brain has mostly switched off to it all as a means of protection from the reality. But I crave to remember her smell, her touch and her presence.

In the absence of Amani in our lives, we are left with connecting with the trails of her life that she left behind. This is why we continue to fundraise in her name. To keep her alive and to keep the causes that she was so passionate about alive too.

Brain cancer is the biggest killer of children and adults under 40 yet it receives only a mere 1% of cancer research funding. The rate of diagnoses is increasing yet the policy for under investment stays the same. So while we see more and more families receiving this devastating diagnosis the standard treatment in UK has not changed in decades and Glioblastoma remains with a 0% chance of survival.

More needs to be done but if the Government won't stand up for families like ours then we need to try and do our part instead. Please help by donating if you can and sharing amongst your networks. Together we can make a difference.

Brain Tumour Research funds research at their 5 Centres of Excellence. The money raised from this fundraiser and the entire Luton Walk of Hope event will specifically fund GBM research at The Blizzard Institute at Queen Mary University, London.

Fight4Hope has been set up as a Brain Tumour Research Fundraising Group by Amani and her family to help raise as much money as they possibly can to help fund brain cancer research. The Luton Walk of Hope was first organised in 2021 when Amani addressed the crowd so beautifully. We now painfully continue these events without her by our side but in honour of the glorious and courageous battle she fought.

Share this story

Help Yasmin Stannard

Sharing this page with your friends could help raise up to 3x more in donations

You can also help by sharing this link on

About the campaign

We will do everything in our power, with the amazing help and support of family and friends, to help raise as much money as we possibly can to help fund brain cancer research through our Fundraising Group Fight4Hope for Brain Tumour Research.

About the charity

Brain Tumour Research

Verified by JustGiving

RCN England and Wales 1153487, Scotland SC046840
Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer. Just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this disease. We are a leading voice calling for support and action for research into what is called the last battleground against cancer.

Donation summary

Total raised
£2,189.93
+ £371.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£2,189.93
Offline donations
£0.00

* Charities pay a small fee for our service. Find out how much it is and what we do for it.