The Puppet Company, a global, family-run puppets and soft toy business, has joined forces with marketing agency Buy-From to to use their combined products and services to raise money and awareness for The Brain Tumour Charity. Both companies are connected by the tragic loss of loved ones due to this devastating disease.

The Brain Tumour Charity is the world's leading brain tumour charity and the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally. Committed to saving and improving lives, we're moving further, faster to help every single person affected by a brain tumour. We're set on finding new treatments, offering the highest level of support and driving urgent change. And we're doing it right now. Because we understand that when you, or someone you love, is diagnosed with a brain tumour a cure really can't wait.

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The Puppet Company was founded in 2000 by Peter and Sue Lockey, who had left their teaching roles to create a business with joy and creative play at the heart of it. Following the tragic loss of Peter to stage 4 glioblastoma in 2021, the business and family are building on his legacy and continuing his mission to share joy.

Buy-From creative agency was founded by Managing Director Louise Welsby, who lost her mum in June 2021. Louise’s mum died of the same brain tumour exactly one week before Peter.

Connected by their tragic loss, the two businesses have formed a close alliance, working together on several projects since meeting in January 2023 and determined to try and give back and help others.

Louise Welsby, owner & founder Buy-From, said: “I am really pleased to have found the Lockey family and the whole team behind The Puppet Company. They are an incredible company and fantastic people as well. We share the mission of doing good in the world, motivated to do right by the legacy left by our loved ones, taken too soon by this cruel disease. If we can make a small difference to other family’s faced with the same diagnosis, then it would be worthwhile.”