Congratulations to everyone at Woodhall Spa and District Ladies Circle, whose fundraising evening raised £160 for brain tumour research! Every penny of that will go straight into funding the research that will produce the cures that will finally beat this terrible set of cancers.
Nicole Witts took the Leighton Buzzard Observer to meet the Circlers and to be presented with the cheque. Nicki Lee from Woodhall Spa said:
Nicole and I were work colleagues and remain great friends. Nicole slowly became quite forgetful and blamed it on being a new mum and the change in lifestyle from a busy career to being at home with a young family. The news of her brain tumour was a shock, but her strength and spirit has inspired many to help in any small way to raise awareness of brain tumours. As Nicole and I met working as beauty therapists in a health spa, it seemed fitting to organize a pampering evening to raise some funds and awareness for this awful illness.
Woodhall Spa and District Ladies Circle is part of a nationwide organization that promotes fundraising and friendship for young women. For more details about Woodhall Spa and District Ladies Circle email woodhallcircle@btinternet.com
A big thanks to Marion Dye and everyone at Linslade Bowls Club whose special event on 30th July 2011 raised £335. Congratulations to all for such a fantastic result – we’ll make sure it’s well used to help make sure that people in the future do not have to live with the consequences of brain tumours. It’s a long fight that we have ahead of us, but the work of people like Marion and the Club are what will win it for us in the end. Thank you!
As part of her efforts for Wear A Hat Day and Brain Tumours Awareness Month, Nicole Witts took her story to the BBC in March for the first time. Here is what she told them:
The video is dedicated to our fantastic patron, inspiration and friend, Andrew Selous MP, with love and gratitude.
Nicole featured alongside celebrity milliner Philip Treacy in the well known Female First glossy, marking her contributions to Wear A Hat Day and Brain Tumours Awareness Month. Read the full article here.
Linda Janes and colleagues from Milton Keynes College get into the spirit on Wear A Hat Day
Everyone at Head 1st For Brain Tumours would like to send a special thank you to a great friend and special supporter, Linda Janes. Linda has been a tower of strength over the last two years, and has raised money for us at every opportunity, both at work and as a part of her Partylite events.
Linda Janes' Partylite and Brain Tumour Research fundraising together
It’s precisely the work, enthusiasm and support of people like Linda that means we will, eventually, beat brain tumours once and for all. It’s because of people like Linda that while we work on that, we will make the lives of patients and their families easier and their treatments better.
Brain Tumour Research is a registered charity with Discover Adventure
Discover Adventure specializes in providing fundraising trekking and cycling challenges. Their challenges take place all over the world and present you with the chance to combine the experience of a lifetime with raising the money we so badly need for research into brain tumours.
In addition to our link-up with Discover Adventure, Brain Tumour Research and Head 1st! work with a wide range of other organizations who exist to make fundraising easy, enjoyable and exciting. Download our full list here (Word document).
Imagine standing at the edge of an open doorway in an aircraft flying at 10,000 feet – the noise of the engines and the wind ringing in your ears with only the outline of distant fields below.
Now imagine leaning forward out of that doorway and letting go falling forward into the clouds, diving down through the air as you start freefalling at over 120mph!
Then imagine the peace and quiet as the canopy opens, the steering toggles come down either side of you and you begin a tranquil parachute descent from a mile up in the air, steering yourself back down to the centre of the drop zone below.
Imagine being able to do this for FREE whilst harnessed to a professional freefall parachute instructor and at the same time being able to help Brain Tumour Research and Nicole Witts Head 1st !
Stop imagining – it’s real and it’s happening all the time and you can be part of it.
Nicole Witts brought a tremendous week of brain tumour awareness raising to a fantastic finish yesterday when she secured a double page spread in the UK’s biggest-selling newspaper, The Sun. Brain tumours are not only the biggest cancer killer of children in the UK, but they are amongst the most poorly funded in terms of research and little known about in terms of public knowledge.
Nicole told her own extraordinary brain tumour story and was joined in the paper by consultant neurosurgeon Kevin O’Neill. Click the image above to read the fantastic Sun piece in full or READ THE SUN PIECE BY CLICKING HERE.
You can also download your own copy of the article as a pdf file BY CLICKING HERE.
