FUNDRAISING GROUPS
WELCOMING OUR NEW FUNDRAISING GROUPS Our amazing Fundraising Groups champion the fight to find a cure for brain tumours while enjoying the support of our Community Development, Marketing and PR & Communications teams to maximise their fundraising and profile within their communities. We have welcomed these four new Groups to our family since our Spring 2022 issue: Albie with his parents Hayley and Lauren
Rashpal
ALBIE AND BEYOND This Fundraising Group has been set up to keep the memory of two-year-old Albie Bayliss-Watts alive and to ensure he leaves a lasting legacy.
Albie Bayliss-Watts in hospital
Albie was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive brain tumour after having an out-of-the-blue seizure and later vomiting in the mornings. Despite emergency surgery and intensive chemotherapy, Albie died less than a year after diagnosis, on 28th November 2021, leaving his parents, Hayley and Lauren, heartbroken. Lauren said: “Albie touched so many people’s hearts and filled our world with nothing but pure joy. Hayley and I are now dedicated to supporting research into brain tumours in the hope that no other family will have to suffer like ours.” 28
Summer 2022 www.braintumourresearch.org
Lotay
ASCENSION Set up in memory of loving wife and mother-of-four Rashpal Lotay, her son Tj chose the name Ascension because most of his fundraising events centre around hiking and climbing mountains and because he doesn’t feel his mother has passed away, more that she has ascended and is watching over him. Rashpal was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2009 and fought the tumour for 10 years, undergoing surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. r family
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