Archive for November, 2009
Will You Rise to the Charity Challenge?
Sky Diving is just one of many challenges available
Brain Tumour Action and Charity Challenge have got together to offer you the chance to enjoy life-changing experiences in some of the world’s most incredible places – and to help in the fight against brain tumours at the same time.
Climb Kilimanjaro and help the fight against brain tumours
Charity Challenge are the UK’s top challenge-creating companies, and organised the very successful Comic Relief celebrity Kilimanjaro climb for Gary Barlow, Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh, Ronan Keating, Chris Moyles, Denise Van Outen, Alesha Dixon, Ben Shephard and Fearne Cotton which raised over £3.35million.
The 3 Peaks Challenge - a favourite with BTA fundraisers
Getting a challenge together for yourself is simple. Click here to download our Charity Challenge Brochure. Choose a challenge from the brochure. Then fill in the online form below -Â we’ll reply with full details. Raise your funds, and off you go, knowing that you are in safe hands and that everything is professionally taken care of.
There are Challenges for just about everyone. And, if your time is short, you don’t have to travel: the Three Peaks Challenge is a popular choice for Brain Tumour Action fundraisers – or perhaps you’d prefer to Skydive!
And it’s not all just about cycling, hiking and climbing. You can change the lives of patients with brain tumours by helping other people change their lives for the better too in the South African Community Challenge.
The South African Community Challenge - Making A Difference to Make A Difference
If you’ve never fundraised before, this is a great way to start – with help from Brain Tumour Action and Charity Challenge, you’ll have the resources you need to succeed. And in years to come, when you look back on your challenge, you’ll know that it made a difference in one of the hardest health battles of our time: the search for a cure for brain tumours.
November 30, 2009
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Lobbying Resources for our Advocates
IMPORTANT: Please use these online facilities in accordance with BTA’s lobbying guidelines. If these useful facilities are abused in any way, we will lose the right to use them.
Click here to read BTA’s Lobbying Guidelines
Read a list of subjects agreed with Brain Tumour Research UK for BTA Political Lobbying
Information and Contact Details for both Scottish and UK Parliaments
Get in touch with your local politicians
November 23, 2009
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Helpline and Counselling
Brain Tumour Action runs a helpline. This is manned by a trained counsellor. Call on 0131 466 3116. Although the helpline cannot be manned 24 hours at present, all calls will be answered as a matter of urgent priority and anything you say in conversation on the helpline will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.
If you need sustained counselling help in your area, we will be able to advise you on how to obtain this.
November 23, 2009
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Education
Brain Tumour Action is dedicated to the spread of knowledge about brain tumours throughout the UK. We are here to help, and will provide speakers for events in Scotland, information booklets and leaflets anywhere, and will provide advice to those training staff who will come into contact with patients with brain tumours.
If you would like more information, call on 0131 466 3116 or use the contact form below:
November 23, 2009
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Support Groups
Here is an up-to-date list of support groups for patients with brain tumours in the UK.
- distribute leaflets, newletters and flyers in their area to doctors’ surgeries, hospitals, libraries, cafes, coffee shops etc.
- display posters in their window, in their local shops etc.
- talk to the people they know about brain tumours
- write to their local representatives to support research into brain tumours and to support their local facilities for patients with brain tumours
- hold occasional small fundraisers for BTA – e.g. garage sales, coffee mornings
- write to their local press about local issues arising from local peoples’ experiences of brain tumours
November 23, 2009
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BTA Downloadable Forms
Download all of the forms you need here.
BTA Sponsorship Form – Continuation Sheet
November 23, 2009
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How We Can Help
Brain Tumour Action provides a wide range of services and supports a wide range of activities. Our vision is of a day when brain tumours are brought under control and patients can take up their full lives again as soon as possible. Until that day comes, here’s how we can help:
Support Groups
Brain Tumour Action runs its own support groups, and publicises support groups run by other groups and organisations. For the current list and details, click here.
Information
Brain Tumour Action provides a full set of information booklets and leaflets. They are available on request, and in addition can be downloaded free of charge – click here to see the range and to download your copies.
Telephone Helpline
Brain Tumour Action runs its own telephone helpline on 0131 466 3116 – call for support, information, help and counselling.
Education
Brain Tumour Action is dedicated to improving the level of public knowledge about brain tumours and the issues they create. Click here for more details.
Counselling
Brain Tumour Action counts a trained counsellor amongst its committee members and can provide expert advice about obtaining help and support in your area. In Edinburgh, we also provide access to aromatherapy.
Research
Brain Tumour Action funds research and is a proud member of Brain Tumour Research, an alliance of colleague charities who combine their resources to contribute significant sums to research and increasing political influence to encourage state research funding.
November 23, 2009
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BTA Advocates’ Centre
One of the most important things you can do is spread the message about brain tumours in your own area. Our BTA Advocates are volunteers who focus on doing just that.
The core role of a BTA Advocate is to help raise public awareness of brain tumours to the same level as breast cancer, lung cancer and cervical cancer. Too many people take too long to be diagnosed because the warning signs aren’t well known. Too many people suffer unnecessarily because brain tumours aren’t properly understood in the public arena. This must end.
To help bring this change about, BTA Advocates:
You can be a BTA Advocate anywhere in the UK. The amount of time you spend on BTA Advocate activities and the depth of your involvement is up to you. You’ll be a vital part of one of the most important health and information campaigns of our time.
Could you be a BTA Advocate? Sign up, using the form below!
November 23, 2009
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What You Can Do
Wherever you live – and whatever your circumstances – there are easy ways for you to help support patients with brain tumours and aid the search for a cure. There’s a need and a role for everyone. Here are some of the ways you can become involved.
Join Our Mailing List
Joining our mailing list means that you’ll receive our quarterly newsletter, KITE. You’ll also be invited to our AGM in Edinburgh. It’s a good way to keep a watching brief if you’ve contributed in the past and would like to see the results of your work – or if you’d like to come in when your commitments allow and want to stay up to date. Click here to join our mailing list.
Become a BTA Fundraiser
If you’d like to raise funds to support patients with brain tumours, help out their carers and families, and pay for research towards a cure, we have resources to help you whether you’d like to raise funds in your own event, in your own way or as part of a bigger organized effort. Click here to visit our Fundraising Centre.
Become a BTA Advocate
One of the most important things you can do is spread the message about brain tumours in your own area. Our BTA Advocates are volunteers who focus on doing just that. Whether they are distributing flyers, putting up posters, writing to politicians or the local press, or holding awareness-raising events in their area, BTA Advocates volunteer their time and effort to informing people about brain tumours and the urgent need for action. Could you be a BTA Advocate in your area? Click here to visit our Advocates’ Centre and sign up!
Become a BTA Online Supporter
BTA Online Supporters use their email and internet connection to raise funds, lobby for our cause and spread awareness. Did you know that you can raise money to fund BTA’s work from your computer at no cost to yourself? You can become a BTA Online Supporter from anywhere in the world – anywhere the internet can reach. For more information on getting involved online, click here to visit our BTA Online Supporters’ Centre.
Become a BTA Expert
Do you live within easy reach of Edinburgh and have the specialist skills BTA needs? We’ll be recruiting regularly for volunteers with particular expertise that we need to take the cause forwards into the future. Click here for our Expert Recruitment page for details.
Become a BTA Befriender
Like all cancers, brain tumours can be terribly isolating. Sufferers can become cut off from their old life; it is all too easy to feel forgotten and lonely. Befrienders work to help patients with brain tumours live the life of their choice. They involve themselves with support groups, help out with chores, household maintenance and gardening, provide transport and man phone lines. Befriending roles are demanding in terms of time and the level of commitment required: there are also in-depth legal checks to be undergone. BTA recruits Befrienders at specific times, which will be announced via our BTA Befrienders’ Centre – click here to visit.
Donate Funds
If you’d like to make a one-off donation to help our work, or you’d like to give on a regular basis, click here.
November 22, 2009
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Join Our Mailing List
Join our mailing list, and you’ll receive our quarterly newsletter KITE and an invitation to attend our AGM and play a part in our future direction. It’s a good way to keep a watching brief if you’ve contributed in the past and would like to see the results of your work – or if you’d like to come in when your commitments allow and want to stay up to date – but you don’t want your inbox swamped with too many emails.
Just complete the form below, or, if you prefer, write to us at:
25 Ann Street
Edinburgh EH4 1PL
or call on 0131 466 3116 and leave us your email (for the email edition of KITE) or name and address (for the print edition).
You can also use the form to unsubscribe to our communications at any time.
November 22, 2009
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