We’re Kate and Emily and on 27 September we’ll join the London Walk of Hope for Brain Tumour Research.

Our dad, Keith Levy, heard the words glioblastoma multiforme, grade 4 in April 2020.

Nine months later, just six weeks after his first grandchild Ava arrived, he was gone. Median survival with GBM is still only about 14-16 months .

Brain tumours receive roughly 1 % of the UK’s national cancer-research funding. That gap costs families years they should have together. We’re walking so the next family gets those years.

(Our step-mum Shelley and our sisters Orielle & Eliza are cheering from the sidelines — love is a big team sport.)

Keith adored his five girls and made each of us feel the most special in our own unique way.

He never ended a call without a joke and a laugh that arrived before the punch-line, always there for us, even when it meant waiting outside parties no matter the time to make sure we got home ok, and had his own unique way of making us smile every day. Big-hearted, slightly chaotic, always funny, that was our Dad. He would have been in his element doing impressions of Mrs Doubtfire and reading stories to Ava, Gabriel and Rafi and were raising money to ensure that future families do not have to suffer how we have, losing our favourite person way, way too soon.

Can’t donate right now?

A quick share of this page is powerful. More eyes → more funding → more tomorrows.

How your gift moves the dial

£10 – Buys the microplates that every single test starts on.

£25 – Keeps a research student pipetting and note-taking all morning.

£100 – Powers a full hour of experiments led by a senior scientist.

£150 – Pays a specialist nurse to collect and bank vital tumour tissue.

£2,740 – Funds an entire day in the lab, pushing us one sunrise closer to a cure.

Every pound helps flip the statistics our dad became part of.

Thank you

Your support means more memories, more laughter, more creativity and more life, everything Keith stood for. (And not forgetting Liverpool FC)

With gratitude,

Kate & Emily Levy

Our annual fundraiser is back! This year’s Walk of Hope takes place on Saturday 27th September 2025, or you can organise your own Walk of Hope on any day that suits you.

Join us in stepping out to raise money to fund life-saving research at our Centres of Excellence and bring much-needed hope to brain tumour patients and their families.

Every September, thousands of supporters like you join our Walk of Hope events or organise their own walks in their community, set up fundraising pages and make donations to help find a cure for brain tumours, which kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer.

Will you step forward in 2025 to help find a cure?