Colleague Software and @BillBoorman are getting together to promote Brain Tumour Research's Wear a Hat Day in the recruitment industry - to raise funds, raise awareness and support a colleague and friend.

Brain tumour research is a hideously underfunded area within cancer treatment - we hope with a Recruiter's Wear a Hat Day we can help raise £2000 for Brain Tumour Research.

How does it work?

- Arrange a  'Wear a Hat Day' at your work (officially on the 28th March but it can be done any time!)

- Take photos of your fellow recruiter's in hats and post them to our Facebook page (feel free to include your name and company)

-  We will share the photos far and wide to help promote the cause further

- And please don't forget to donate by clicking the button above

 
The Facts:

• 16,000 people each year in the UK are diagnosed with a brain tumour
   
• Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of UK children
   
• More people under 40 die of a brain tumour than from any other cancer
   
• Only 12% of males diagnosed with a brain tumour and 15% of females survive beyond 5 years (compared with 50% for all cancers)
   
• 25% of all cancers spread to the brain
   
• 33% more children died from a brain tumour in 2007 than 2001 
   
• 65% more women die from a brain tumour than from cervical cancer
   
• Every year there is a 4% increase in incidence
   
• Brain tumour research is woefully under-funded and therefore lags significantly behind other cancers
   
• With more than 120 different types of tumour, brain tumours are a notoriously difficult disease to diagnose 
   
• Brain tumours are a particularly devastating form of cancer with one of the lowest survival rates
   
• Our understanding of other cancers does not readily translate to brain tumours
   
• Patient personality changes as a result of a brain tumour cause massive family disruption
   
• The commercialisation of universities and introduction of performance grading to determine funding, along with the merger of larger cancer charities focused on more pervasive cancers, has dramatically reduced the funds available for brain tumour research
   
• Much more research is needed to discover the cause of brain tumours and to understand their behaviour