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 10, 2010
Posted in: What You Can Do
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