Last year a group of us (eight mums) who had devastatingly lost a child to a brain tumour, came together to form the 'angel mums'. In October we did a skydive together raising £77k and very importantly LOTS of awareness of this brutal disease.

We've really only just begun our work... this year we are back, with more ‘angel mums’ in the same heart-breaking position as us. We are facing a triple challenge in 2024 which we've named 'earth, wind & fire'. The challenge comprises the following;

18th May - Snowdon climb (Earth)

20th July - Wing walk (Wind)

19th October - Walk on hot coals (Fire)

We can tell you now, that most of us are terrified of taking part in these challenges – but we are driven by a need to make a change in memory of our children. None of us want to see others go through what our children have and face the life we now face without our children.

We are spurred on because we’ve seen our children so bravely face surgeries, chemo, radiotherapy, painful immunotherapy, countless drugs / tablets, MRI’s and needles. Can you imagine having to watch your child go through all of this knowing that it would only prolong, and not save their life?

Fact: Brain tumours are the biggest killing cancer of our children and adults under 40. This is a fact we never knew until it was too late and the unthinkable happened and our children were diagnosed with this terrible disease.

The journey and treatment plans for these tumours mostly hasn’t changed for decades, not enough is being done to raise money for research, historically only 1% of government cancer research funding is spent on brain tumours – this is a devastating statistic!

When each of our children were diagnosed with their brain tumour, there simply wasn’t ANY hope for them at all and lots of our children were given a 0% chance of survival which is just heart-breaking.

So we will be doing these challenges in memory of;

Harry #forever2 who bravely fought Embrynol Tumour (ETMR) for 10 months

Isla #forever5 who bravely fought DIPG for 9 months

Taylan #forever6 who bravely fought Medulloblastoma for 8 months

Dylan #forever7 who bravely fought Diffuse Midline Glioma for 7 months

Emily #forever8 who bravely fought Diffuse Midline Glioma for 2 weeks

Rajvir #forever8 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 6 years

Kjell #forever9 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 10 months

Hope #forever9 who bravely fought Medulloblastoma for 2 years

Renai #forever11 who bravely fought Diffuse Midline Glioma for 8 months

Finlay #forever11 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 17 months

Katie #forever11 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 12 months

Louie #forever12 who bravely fought Astrocytoma for 2.5 years

George #forever13 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 11 months

Shay #forever13 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 22 months

Evie #forever13 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 11 months

Ben #forever13 who bravely fought Diffuse Thalmatic Glioma for 6.5 months

Harry #forever13 who bravely fought Diffuse Glioma for 18 months

Grace #forever14 who bravely fought Anaplastic astrocytoma & Glioblastoma for 2 years,7 months

Mia #forever14 who bravely fought an optic nerve pathway Glioma for 9 years

Connor #forever15 who bravely fought Medulloblastoma for 19 months

Ethan #forever17 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 25 months

Oli #forever 17 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 25 months

Jay #forever20 who bravely fought Anaplastic Astrocytoma for 18 months

Laura #forever23 who bravely fought Glioblastoma for 4.5 years

And all of the other brain tumour angels that we’ve met and lost along the way of which sadly there are too many.

We would like to raise money for the Tessa Jowell Foundation, as it’s committed to funding and supporting the transformation of brain cancer treatment and care in the UK. The money we raise will go towards the development and roll out of the Tessa Jowell Centres of Excellence for Children. The Tessa Jowell Foundation are striving to make a real difference in the area of paediatric brain tumours. Not only with research and precision medicine, but so importantly with the care children receive whilst going through this unbelievably devastating diagnosis.

We wouldn’t wish how we are feeling now, on any other families and are determined to raise as much money as possible to enable The Tessa Jowell Foundation to continue their truly ground-breaking work.

We are also looking for Sponsors or businesses who could cover the cost of one of the activities or donate services that we need to enable more money to go directly where it is needed most.

We hope to raise in excess of £100,000 and make a real difference to children with brain tumours and their families.

Please support us if you can, it would mean the world to us.

Kindest,

The #AngelMums

Nelly (Harry’s Mum), Natasha (Renai’s Mum), Louise (George’s Mum), Katie (Evie’s Mum), Niki (Shay’s Mum), Rebecca (Grace’s Mum), Clair (Connor’s Mum), Nikki (Ethan’s Mum), Steph (Isla’s Mum), Laura (Taylan’s Mum), Louise (Dylan’s Mum), Sarah (Emily’s Mum), Suki (Rajvir’s Mum), Michelle (Kjell’s Mum), Penny (Finlay’s Mum), Julie (Katie’s Mum), Hayley (Ben’s Mum), Jacqui (Harry’s Mum), Michelle (Mia’s Mum), Claire (Oli’s Mum), Dawn (Jay’s Mum), Nicola (Laura’s Mum), Alison (Hope's Mum).