Wear A Hat Day March 2011 was a huge success thanks to the help and enthusiasm of schools and businesses from right across the area! Thanks and congratulations go to all of our fantastic friends and supporters from: Brooklands Middle School, Leighton Buzzard Leighton Buzzard Library coffee shop especially Val, Jan and Lizzie! 99p Store, […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Discover Adventure specializes in providing fundraising trekking and cycling challenges. Their challenges take place all over the world and present you with the chance to combine the experience of a lifetime with raising the money we so badly need for research into brain tumours. You can download a spreadsheet of their latest challenges here – […]
1 Comment. Continue Reading...Imagine standing at the edge of an open doorway in an aircraft flying at 10,000 feet – the noise of the engines and the wind ringing in your ears with only the outline of distant fields below. Now imagine leaning forward out of that doorway and letting go falling forward into the clouds, diving […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Nicole Witts brought a tremendous week of brain tumour awareness raising to a fantastic finish yesterday when she secured a double page spread in the UK’s biggest-selling newspaper, The Sun. Brain tumours are not only the biggest cancer killer of children in the UK, but they are amongst the most poorly funded in terms of […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...NICE published its Guidance on Improving Outcomes for People with Brain and Other CNS Tumours in 2006 but a five year delay in national implementation has led to a postcode lottery of treatment, rehabilitation and care across the country. On March 29th, our lobby of Parliament asked MPs to sign up in support of the […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Nicole Witts and Head 1st For Brain Tumour Research joined representatives from other brain tumour charities to mark Wear A Hat Day on 25th March 2011. Wear A Hat Day encourages individuals, firms and organizations to come together to raise funds for research into brain tumours, which are now the chief cancer killer in British […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Listen to Nicole Witts speaking on BBC Three Counties Radio on 25th March. Brain tumours are now the biggest cancer killer of children and are frequently misdiagnosed by GPs and hospitals until it is too late: Nicole Witts on Three Counties Radio March 25 2011
No Comments. Continue Reading...A busy week for Head 1st For Brain Tumours started with Nicole appearing for an interview on Heart FM. Encouraging everyone in the country to participate in Wear A Hat Day for Brain Tumour Research UK, Nicole said: “I have still a 30% chance of my brain tumour coming back. So I decided to write […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Brave statement to raise awareness of Brain Tumour Research’s Wear a Hat Day (25th of March) Brain tumour survivor, Nicole Witts, is today baring all to raise awareness of the need for increased investment in research and launch ‘Wear a Hat Day’ on the 25th March. By posing nude in nothing but a pink hat, […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Join Nicole Witts and guests on Friday March 25th at the historic Friends Meeting House in Leighton Buzzard for a relaxing evening of pampering and treatment demonstrations. Enjoy hand and head massage, reiki and candling amongst friends and raise funds for Brain Tumour Research at the same time. It’s only £5 entry, but tickets are […]
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