NEWS FROM OUR FUNDRAISING GROUPS

Raising4ria

REMEMBERING RAYHAN

A 15-strong team of relatives organised by Rayhan’s mum Nadia Majid and with great support from the local community, incredibly raised more than £10,000 by taking on 10,000 Steps a Day in February to remember her son who died aged four, just four months after being diagnosed with a medulloblastoma.

Nadia said: “Iamreally humbledeverytimeanyonedoes somethinginRayhan’sname.”

Main image. Rayhan Majid before diagnosis

Inset. Top: The Remembering Rayhan 10,000 Steps team

Below: Rayhan after surgery

Swimmers, surfers and healthcare professionals took part in three events for Wear A Hat Day helping to bring Raising4Ria’s fundraising total to more than £107,500, inspired by Ria who died in August 2021, aged 25. Ria’s mum, Carol Melvin, a swimming instructor, held an event at the leisure centre where she teaches. Kaz, Ria’s sister, who lives in Cornwall, invited instructors and surfers to a dip in the sea wearing hats. While staff on the neuroscience wards at Queen’s Hospital, Romford, where Ria underwent a lot of her treatment, continued their support for Wear A Hat Day with a fundraising lunch.

Top: Vicky with her dad Chris Todd

Centre: Vicky looking at her dad’s tiles on the Wall of Hope

Below: Vicky and Graeme at the Wall of Hope

Set up in memory of her dad, Chris Todd, Vicky attended a reception at our Centre of Excellence at Imperial College, London earlier this year along with her partner Graeme to place 12 more tiles on the Wall of Hope. Vicky said: “It was heartening to hear from the scientists at Imperial that breakthroughs are being made in the quest to find a cure.”

The Fundraising Group has raised more than £41,000 to date through events such as bake sales and Wear A Hat Day, as well as lots of raffles.

This Fundraising Group was set up in memory of two brothers, Richard and Michael, lost to brain tumours aged 25 and 54 respectively. Their sister Tracey Porter took on 10,000 Steps a Day in February, raising more than £1,500. She started her steps in Manchester Airport while waiting to pick up her case after a flight back from New York and finished the challenge while on a break in Prague.

Tracey completes her 10,000 Steps on Prague Castle ramparts

For more information or to join our family of Fundraising Groups, visit: www.braintumourresearch.org/ become-a-fundraising-group