Thank you so much to everyone who has supported our fundraising efforts to date!!

Having smashed our original target of £20k and having spent time at the BTR research facility we have revised our goal to £90k. This amount will secure a position for a full-time PHD student to spend 3 years dedicated to researching medullablastoma and its treatment. This will be a truly phenomenal achievement!

Our next events are:

The Kiltwalk Glasgow on the 24th April 2016.  We have a team of Aidan's Angels taking part in The Mighty Stride, a 26 mile event, walking from Hampden to Loch Lomond.

Aidan's nursery teacher Julie Lorrimer and her husband William will be taking on the West Highland Way to raise funds in Aidan's memory, they start their challenge on the 3rd of April.

Good luck everyone!!

For those visiting this page for the first time we'd be extremely grateful if you could take an additional minute or two to read on to understand why this means so much to us.

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Our beautiful son Aidan passed away on the 27th April 2013 aged four years and eleven months.

Aidan was diagnosed with a brain tumour (medulloblastoma) when he was only 17 months old and fought a brave battle against this devastating disease for three and a half years.

One startling fact that frustrates us is that brain tumour research is overwhelmingly underfunded (receiving less than 1% of national cancer research spending in the UK).

Research is the only thing that can improve the outlook for other children with brain tumours.

'Brain Tumour Research', are fighting to accelerate progress in this area, they have guaranteed us that all of the money we raise will directly fund research into Medulloblastoma and it's treatment.

More information on Aidan's story and and on our fundraising events can be found at www.foraidan.co.uk 

Thanks for taking the time to visit this page.  If you have time before leaving please consider the following shocking statistics:

- brain tumours are the most common solid tumour found in children.

- brain tumours kill more children in the UK than any other cancer.

-  more people under 40 die of a brain tumour than any other cancer.

- 16,000 people are diagnosed with a brain tumour every year.

- only 14% will survive beyond 5 years of diagnosis (compared to 50% survival for all cancers).

- 40% of all cancers spread to the brain.

Many thanks for your support,

Barry & Natalie Linden.