Author: Helen Rogers

Meet “Cecilia’s Peaky Blinders” – and find out why they are taking on the Three Peaks Challenge.

Jeff Lancaster will walk over 1,000 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats (LEJOG) to raise funds.

Meet some of our 140 runners lining up for this year’s London Marathon in support of The Brain Tumour Charity.

Jane Roberts, who has an inoperable brain tumour, will line up for Sunday’s Newport Half marathon in her specially designed costume.

Beauty therapist Claire, from Burnley, decided to take drastic measures after exhausting NHS treatment options.

Gavin learned of his tumour – a pilocytic astrocytoma – in December 1995: just a few months before Neil and Angela Dickson founded the organisation that would become The Brain Tumour Charity. In this post, he looks back over the last three decades and reflects on how things have changed.

As well as the Twilight Walk London on March 21st, hundreds of Twilight Walk Own Walks are happening this month! Here, three people explain why they are walking the Twilight Walk their way in March.

This Brain Tumour Awareness Month, we’re celebrating thirty years of progress. Progress that includes our free counselling service, which has enabled people like Carole to access the specific support she needed.

Boxer and proud Welshman, Ewan Rees, has chosen a unique challenge to remember his Grandpa.

Behind every cancer diagnosis is a unique human story. On #WorldCancerDay this year, the call to action is for a more people-centred approach to cancer care.

Rachel Hirst, 26, a Young Ambassador from 2024-26, shares her experience of being a Young Ambassador for The Brain Tumour Charity.

Lily, 19, was diagnosed with a brain tumour when she was six.. Now studying to be a doctor, here she shares her story – and her tips for a brilliant Big Bake.

Amy, from Bathgate, West Lothian, devised her own Active Autumn challenge, to feel stronger and fitter after months of tough treatment.

David Waters, from Edinburgh, was four when he lost his dad John, 39, to a brain tumour in 1992. Over the last 12 months, David’s taken on 16 different fitness events in a year of paying tribute to his dad.

Kirsty, from Kinross, was studying for a nursing degree when a brain tumour diagnosis changed everything. Six years later, she’s using her crafting skills – and love of pigs! – to raise funds.

Newly-weds Jeremy and Lottie Daubeny are shunning sun loungers in favour of saddles on an epic bike ride from Australia back to the UK.

Rhiannon, from Staffordshire, is helping raise awareness in Eye Health Week.

Eleven years after her diagnosis, Helen will line up at the Brighton and Hove triathlon to mark her milestone birthday – and raise funds.

A mum whose son died in April is calling for greater awareness of early symptoms of brain tumours.

Jake, from Swansea, star of BBC Three’s I Kissed a Boy, the UK’s first gay dating show, was inspired to work with us after losing his grandfather, Kenneth, to a brain tumour in 2018.

Adam, from Broxbourne, alongside friend Laura, is taking on a huge endurance challenge – his toughest yet – in memory of his little girl, Orla, who died from a rare brain tumour in 2023.

To remember her and raise funds, Trefor, Glynwen’s husband, and Brenda, her former work colleague, walked 127 miles in May, along the pilgrimage trail from Twywn to Aberdaron in North Wales.

Dan Schneider, from Hampshire, is aiming to be the first ever to hike up, then bike down, the UK’s three peaks.

Anna and Chris are taking a big leap on “Skydive Weekend” to mark World Brain Tumour Day.