Tag: The Brain Tumour Charity

Wickes Announces The Brain Tumour Charity as New Charity Partner

Stuart Mitchell

Home improvement retailer Wickes is proud to announce The Brain Tumour Charity as its new charity partner. After a three month process of colleague nominations and voting the new partnership will start in April 2023 and continue until April 2024. Throughout the two-year partnership, colleagues at Wickes will embark on a series of fundraising missions across its 230 stores and digital channels in a bid to raise the funds. These activities include organising bake sales, bike rides and mountain hikes as well as asking for donations at till point and…

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The Brain Tumour Charity and Meningioma UK will merge to accelerate a cure for brain tumours

Stuart Mitchell

The Brain Tumour Charity and Meningioma UK are to merge in a drive to improve services and outcomes for everyone affected by a brain tumour Accelerated by the impact of COVID-19 which has seen demand for support services soar, the planned merger is the latest move towards consolidation in a sector historically populated with small charities, many of them founder-led. The Brain Tumour Charity – created in 2013 and now the largest charity in the field, with an annual income of around £12m – was itself born out of a…

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Medical charities collaborate to ensure research results are shared

Stuart Mitchell

23 members of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) are working in collaboration to develop and launch a joint publication platform, AMRC Open Research.  By removing traditional barriers and delays to publication, the new platform will help the charities maximise the value of the donations they receive by making it possible for every output from the research they fund to be rapidly and openly shared. The AMRC Open Research will use services developed by F1000 and a publication process first used on F1000Research. This process has since been adopted…

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