OUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY
A DECADE OF On 28th April 2009, 14 brain tumour charities put their ‘heads together’ to launch the umbrella charity Brain Tumour Research with a mission to raise awareness and increase funding for vital research.
Ali’s Dream was
instrumental in establishing both the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Brain Tumours and our first Brain Tumour Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth in 2010.
Anna’s Hope funds a pioneering
specialist paediatric neuro-oncology rehabilitation service, called Brainbow, at Addenbrookes Hospital. It provides rehabilitation therapy for children and its specialist nurse provides support throughout a child’s treatment.
Brain and Spine Foundation
provides information and support for over 350 neurological disorders and a helpline run by nurses with a signposting service for health professionals. It also facilitates online support groups and produces information booklets and fact sheets.
Brain Tumour Action provides support and counselling for patients, their relatives and their friends. It also supplies hospitals throughout the UK with information booklets, makes grants to research, supports specialist nurse training in neuro-oncology and informs policy in the Scottish Parliament.
30 Summer 2019 www.braintumourresearch.org
