Today we’re celebrating the success of our Light Up the UK 2025 campaign, encouraging landmarks to be lit up across the nation during Brain Tumour Awareness Month, around or on Wear A Hat Day, honouring loved ones lost to a brain tumour or living with one.
We are hugely grateful to all who got involved by sending out emails to mayors, councils, landlords and MPs. These include Alex Davies, living with a glioblastoma, who organised for London’s King’s Cross, Liverpool’s Lime Street and Leeds Railway Stations, as well as Bolton (which lit up for the whole month) and Chorley Town Halls to Light Up to help raise awareness of the desperate need to find a cure.
Three further landmarks lit up in Liverpool and Wirral – St George’s Dock building, the Woodside Ferry Terminal and Seacombe Clock Tower in memory of supporter Mel Spike’s mum Jean Roach and supporter David Roscoe’s wife Jennifer.
Also in Leeds, the Civic Hall, Town Hall and City Museum got involved for the fourth year running at the request of Rory Burke, who has been living with an oligodendrogloma since 2012. And a special mention for Scunthorpe’s Church Square – the head office of North Lincolnshire Council – which, thanks to Nicki Hopkins, who lost her husband Dave to a glioblastoma, has also lit up for four consecutive years.
Thank you for helping us to Light Up the UK to shine a light on the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under the age of 40 and create a beacon of hope.
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