Brain Tumour Research celebrates its 15th anniversary this year so over the next few months I am taking on 15 challenges centred around the theme of 15 to try to raise £1500.

I’ll be announcing my challenges at fairly regular intervals so be sure you keep up to date with my progress! I’m also happy to consider any suggestions from anyone who wants me to do something silly and make myself look like an idiot!

Some of these challenges will seem extremely easy to a lot of people but please try to remember that they are going to be difficult for me personally. I’m not fit, I lack a lot of energy due to having my brain messed around with in a variety of ways, I don’t have the brain power I used to have either! I’m addicted to chocolate, I have family commitments to work around and so there will definitely be more effort than what it looks like on a surface level. I have chosen a lot of these challenges because I want them to be difficult. I want to earn your donations!!

Just a quick reminder of why this charity is so important to me…

In 2015 at the age of 30, I was diagnosed with brain cancer and given a 50/50 chance of reaching the age of 40. I’ve had two brain surgeries, 6 and a half weeks of daily radiotherapy to my brain and a year of horrible chemotherapy. So far these treatments have kept me alive. My diagnosis has massively affected my life in ways that people will never even think about but I’m not complaining because I’M STILL ALIVE! which is more than can be said for most brain cancer patients who, despite gruelling treatment, die within 5 years of their diagnosis. A lot of them CHILDREN.

There is NO CURE. If something else doesn’t come along first instead, then this disease will return and is definitely going to be the thing to take many years from my life (most likely in a really horrible way) While I’m here and still able to, I want to try to give hope to others who are yet to experience this absolute b*****d of a disease by raising money and awareness of the charity that are trying to change things for people like me.

I am grateful for any amount you can give and as always, thank you for your support.

Xx

Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer… yet just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease. This is unacceptable!

I am fundraising for Brain Tumour Research as they are the only national charity dedicated to funding long-term, sustainable research in the UK. Please help me fund the fight. Together we will find a cure.