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The Brain Tumour Charity is the leading funder of brain tumour research in the UK, spending over £18.3 million to date on pioneering projects that will help adults and children with brain tumours.

80p of every £1 donated is spent on their charitable aims, so the more we can raise, the more they will invest in research. This research is funded through a competitive, fair and transparent process of best practice called peer review to ensure only the very best research is selected that will have a real impact on those affected by brain tumours.

They are committed to having the biggest possible impact on everyone affected by a brain tumour, and to defending the most amazing part of the human body,

The Brain Tumour Charity fights brain tumours on all fronts, through research, awareness and support to save lives and improve quality of life.

They fund pioneering research to find new treatments, improve understanding, increase survival rates and bring us closer to a cure.

They raise awareness of the symptoms and effects of brain tumours, to reduce diagnosis times and make a difference every day to the lives of people with a brain tumour and their families.

They provide support and information for anyone affected to improve quality of life.

In my personal case, my diagnosis is not a tragedy. I am 56 years old and have some treatment options available to me. But the shocking statistics are that brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children, teenagers and adults under 40.

This is a real tragedy and I intend to do everything in my power to improve this situation so future generations can receive their diagnosis in a far more positive light knowing there are many more treatment options open to them than currently. The Brain Tumour Charity will make this happen.

Over 55,000 people are currently living with a brain tumour in the UK and most are coping with a reduced quality of life. Whilst survival has doubled across all cancers, the ten year survival rates for brain tumours have improved little for adults in over 40 years, at just 13% (one of the poorest of all cancers). Brain tumours also reduce life expectancy by an average of 20 years, the highest of any cancer. Despite these facts, less than 2% of the £500 million invested in cancer research in the UK every year is spent on brain tumours

This must change.

The cure is already out there, we just need to find it. With sufficient investment, The Brain Tumour Charity can transform outcomes and
the quality of day-to-day life for those affected by brain tumours. As an
example of what adequate investment can achieve; over the past forty years the proportion of people who survived for ten years after a leukaemia diagnosis has increased more than sixfold. Meanwhile, the proportion of people who survived for ten years after a brain tumour diagnosis has merely doubled.

The Brain Tumour Charity’s goals are ambitious but they are already having staggering results. Let us help them close this gap!

Back in 2015 they devised a strategy to double survival rates by 2025 and just two years later they are on target to reach that goal 5 years ahead of schedule in 2020! This is the kind of charity I want to be involved with!

Their HeadSmart campaign was introduced in 2011 to raise awareness of symptoms in children and babies and to improve diagnosis times. Within just two years they have succeeded in reducing the time taken to diagnose childhood brain tumours from 13 weeks to 6.5 weeks. That
is quite astonishing! The campaign aims to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of brain tumours among the medical profession to further reduce diagnosis times to less than 5 weeks. These are incredible achievements without any government funding and I applaud these r

I believe I am in a unique position to help The Brain Tumour Charity and I am hoping for the support of the good people of Henfield to assist me in my quest to deliver the resources The Brain Tumour Charity requires to continue their life-changing work and research. To further spread the word, I also intend to volunteer my services to the charity as a Community Ambassador to help raise awareness of their work and spread their message of positivity for the future. With Henfield’s support, I would like to raise as much money as I can so The Brain Tumour Charity can continue to invest in new treatments and diagnostics to change the awful statistics above. They have already had huge success in these areas. Please see:  www.thebraintumourcharity.org/our-research/our-progress/