The Legacy Festival returns for it’s fourth year
Lloyd’s Legacy: The Legacy Festival 2019 For the last three years people have flocked to Highbridge Farm, Eastleigh for the third Legacy Festival, organised as part of Lloyd’s Legacy. The annual festival […]
Online community helps brainstrust win £1,000 award for brain tumour support
brainstrust has won a £1,000 Movement for Good award thanks to nominations from the public brainstrust was nominated to win a £1,000 boost as part of specialist insurer Ecclesiastical’s Movement for […]
Teams awarded £18 million Cancer Research UK Brain Tumour Awards
Great news from Cancer Research UK (CRUK), who has just announced the latest three research teams to be granted £18 million in funding as part of The Cancer Research UK […]
Having your best possible day: ASCO 2019
Notes from a conference: Caring for every patient, learning from every patient brainstrust was privileged to win a bursary to attend ASCO: the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference. With more […]
Life after diagnosis: A mother and daughter tell their stories
Two years ago, Jaime Brewer decided to go to the doctors during a lunch break from work, after a few weeks of ‘feeling different’. Everything changed then for Jaime and […]
Our Support Specialists are trained coaches: What does this mean for our community?
Last month our Support Specialist for the Midlands, Jodie, and our Paediatric Support Specialist, Khadijha, completed their coaching training. So, what does this means for the people they support? As […]
The patient voice in the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission Update It’s now nearly a year since the beginning of our involvement with the TJBCM and it has been a great opportunity to represent the […]
Brain tumour data highlights urgent unmet needs for people with non-malignant tumours
Recently released brain tumour data shows that 10% of people with a non-malignant brain tumour will die within the first year of being diagnosed. Despite this, these tumours are referred […]
brainstrust Director of Services joins Cochrane Consumer Executive
brainstrust co-founder and Director of Services and Policy, Helen Bulbeck, has been appointed to the Cochrane Consumer Executive What is the Cochrane Consumer Network? Cochrane is an independent, not-for-profit organisation […]
Our Patient Guides receive NICE endorsement
brainstrust Patient Guides receive NICE endorsement We’re proud of our resources. We know how important it is for people diagnosed with a brain tumour to have reliable, trustworthy information, which […]