12 children and young people will continue to be diagnosed with cancer every day in the UK. And there are already thousands of families dealing with the devastating impact of such diagnoses.

In the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak, these families are facing an immense added pressure, their child is not only facing cancer, but may also be facing a higher risk of infection. Some cancer and treatments can lead to a weakened immune system which makes it harder for those affected to fight off infections like COVID-19. The impact on diagnosis and speed of treatment will also have a serious impact. Once treatable tumours may become inoperable and the development of future therapies put in jeopardy.

Lockdown may be over for most of us but for these families they are still living very isolated lives.

Whilst acknowledging these challenging times, our vision remains, as we strive to continue to make a difference for children diagnosed with a brain tumour.

With your support, Blue Skye Thinking has been working really tirelessly on building up funds dedicated to paediatric brain tumour research. We have almost hit our target of £200k and have already had in-depth and incredibly positive conversations with the world class team of specialist researchers about how we can keep some of their key projects functioning at full capacity (more on this exciting news to follow).

We are also in the final process of introducing individual, personalised balloon model videos for ANY child in hospital. Thanks to Tricky the Twister, this special project will hopefully bring a moment of magic onto the wards as we believe emotional wellbeing is every bit as important as treatment received.

With just one final boost from fund-raising support we can make such a big difference even during the most challenging of times.

Cancer has unfortunately affected so many friends and family and one of these was Skye, who is one of my closest friend's nephew, he died at the age of 5 after showing so much bravery in his short life and as he endured so much treatment trying to battle against the cancer.  His family set up BST and I would like to honour Skye's memory in this way and with your help I believe we can make a MASSIVE difference!

Over the course of my 40th year of life I am going to do a number of fundraising challenges (aiming for 40!) which I am starting on my birthday (October 9th 2020) by asking 39 friends to join me in walking a mile and therefore covering 40 miles and hoping we can start this fundraising adventure by raising £400 by the end of my birthday!