Walks of Hope in 2018

WALKS OF HOPE MEGA DAY

Thank you to all of our fantastic supporters who took part in our six Walks of Hope last year from Scotland to the South Coast – Loch Lomond, Litherland, Milton Keynes, London, Portsmouth, and Bridgwater and Taunton.

Saturday 29th September was a mega day across the country and a magnificent fundraising achievement.

Our walks included the first-ever Portsmouth Seafront Walk of Hope, which saw a pink army of more than 200 people walk along the coast in either 4.3 or 7.2-mile walks.

The event finished with complimentary Mocktails of Hope and hot dogs, and the brilliant news that £5,900 had been raised to help give hope to the 16,000 people a year diagnosed with a brain tumour.

We’re already planning our 2019 Walks of Hope. The date is set for Saturday 28th September and there will be even more walks this year. If you want to organise your own walk or join one, please visit www.braintumourresearch.org/ walks-of-hope

In London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the David Hetherington Memorial Walk of Hope, which was led by his wife, Shaz, and fellow supporters from our Power of David Fundraising Group, raised a tremendous £8,000!

After he was diagnosed with a low-grade oligoastrocytoma, which over time changed to a grade 4 glioblastoma, David sadly passed away in November 2016 at the age of 39, leaving Shaz, and his two young children. Shaz told us: “I’m delighted that the Walk of Hope was such a success and that so many people turned out to help us fundraise. Many of us are inspired by David’s memory but we were also walking in honour of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer daily from this disease. We can’t sit back and let this situation continue.”

The money raised will help sustain the groundbreaking research taking place at our Centres of Excellence in London, Portsmouth and Plymouth as well as influencing the Government to invest more in brain tumour research.