Ben Merritt

Gary's Grand to Grand Ultra 2016 Page

Fundraising for Brain Tumour Charity (The)
£10,746
raised of £10,000 target
Donations cannot currently be made to this page
In memory of Silas Pullen
We fund medical research, and give support to those people affected by brain tumours

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I will be participating in a self supported Grand to Grand Ultra course in Utah, USA, which covers approx.170 miles spread over 6 stages in 7 days. We will encounter a mix of desert and other terrain including hard packed sand, sand dunes, red rock climbs, rocky roads, slot canyons and rattle snakes! 

This is in honour and in aid of a very good friend's son, Silas, a young boy whose life was taken away before his time. He tragically died of a Brain tumour and here is why I pledge and ask you to donate to this worthy cause.

Brain tumours are the biggest Cancer killer of children and receive very little funding – this needs to change. When Silas relapsed, he was put on drugs that were 40 years old, they didn't work then and don't work now. We would like these children to have more up to date access to medicine, to give them a chance of a cure. So all the money given to the Silas Pullen fund goes straight into driving innovative research for paediatric high grade gliomas so that we can find more treatments.

The brain tumour charity have ambitious plans to double the survival of brain tumour patients over the next 10 years.

Please donate what you can.





 


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About the charity

The Brain Tumour Charity is at the forefront of the fight to defeat brain tumours, funding pioneering research and providing support for those affected. We are committed to defending the most amazing part of the human body so that the diagnosis of a brain tumour no longer means a death sentence.

Donation summary

Total raised
£10,745.23
+ £1,221.50 Gift Aid
Online donations
£10,745.23
Offline donations
£0.00

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