Nicole Witts is a consciousness-raiser, fundraiser, campaigner and organizer in the fight against brain tumours. Based in Buckinghamshire, UK, her work has featured in the Daily Mail and the News of the World and on TV and radio nationwide.
Nicole Witts - Raising Money and Raising Consciousness in the Fight Against Brain Tumours
Nicole was diagnosed with a grade 1 meningioma in February 2008 after a series of GPs had misinterpreted symptoms dating back over six months. After a nine hour operation, which had threatened her with the loss of her capacity for speech, she began fundraising from her hospital bed. She has raised funds for Brain Tumour Action and now funds raised go to the team at Brain Tumour Research.
Nicole recovering from her long operation
Since then Nicole has organized an entire series of fundraising events, working with a dedicated team of friends and colleagues and succeeding where a difficult economy has seen many others fail.
Nicole "conducts" at her June 2010 fundraising concert
Brain tumours are the last great frontier in cancer research. They now kill more UK children annually than leukaemia, and end the lives of more under-40s than any other form of solid tumour. With state funding of research into brain tumours low and falling, Nicole aims to raise the money necessary to defeat this terrible set of cancers once and for all.
