Des (FFS Beauty Founder / Owner) is running the London Marathon, trying to set a record for the fastest marathon completed whilst dressed as a razor (The FFS Beauty Mascot)🪒 😃 In doing so I’m also raising funds for two charities, one which is a longtime, chosen charity of mine, The Headcase, Cancer Charity Trust.

Des has been a supporter of Headcase for many years supporting regular fundraising events including volunteering as a support guide rider for the charity's gruelling annual 'Pedal the Pyrenees' mountain cycle event.

Headcase is a young and vibrant Charity with a slightly irreverent approach to a very serious subject matter, and definitely a maverick approach to fundraising. That said they love all kinds of fundraising, although a lot of our supporters do the most weird and wacky things, including running the world famous London Marathon dressed as a Razor 🪒!!

GBM is the most common and most deadly type of brain tumour, killing around 5000 people each year in the UK (that’s 5 times more than all the other 130 types of brain tumour put together!). Average life expectancy with a GBM, from diagnosis, is a mere 14 months. There is no cure. GBM has the highest number of Life Years Lost of any cancer at 20.1 years!

You probably just skimmed by that last bit……… so to recap…..

5000 people die from GBM in the UK alone each and every year…. There is no cure for GBM….. You will be dead, on average, in 14 months if you get one.

Headcase raises money solely for research to find a cure for this incurable, and frankly, absolute git of a condition. Their Research Strategy has been developed in close conjunction with Scientists and Universities across the UK and beyond. They think differently, collaboratively, they look at novel and unique approaches to first understanding the way GBM functions before looking at strategies to attack and ultimately beat it.

Just so you know, Headcase is run on an entirely voluntary basis so you can be assured that none of your donation will be used on salaries for anyone associated with Headcase. In fact over 98% of all monies they receive go directly to research and thanks to the miracle of Gift Aid, every £1 we receive actually generates £1.05p for research! Not many other Charities can do that!

This means that your donations and fundraising will be going to where it matters most…… where you want them to go.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. So it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.