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September 2015
 
 
Our biggest Pyjama Party ever!
 

Our biggest annual fundraiser, Pyjama Party, is back and for the first time ever is being celebrated for an entire fortnight!

Since Pyjama Party launched in 2012 the campaign has raised £60k for The National Hospital. Will you join in the party this year by organising a fundraising event between 19 Oct- 1 Nov to support the patients and staff at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery? With your help we can make this year’s campaign the most successful ever!

It couldn't be easier to join in the fun... what about one of these easy-to-organise fundraising events?

1 Pyjama party at home – a fun night in with your friends where you could ask for a donation for attending – you could suggest the amount they would usually spend on a night out.
 2  Pyjama day at work – ask colleagues to wear their favourite pyjamas or onesies for the day for a suggested donation or charge a penalty fee for anyone who doesn’t!
 3 Pyjamas at school – kids love playing dress-up and most schools hold dress down days.

We love hearing about those more adventurous fundraising ideas so if you’re the kind of person who thinks outside the box, why not organise a sleep walk, busking or even trekking in pyjamas… For more inspiration, take a look at our Wall of Fame.

We’d love to welcome you to the Pyjama Party team this year, so register today and you’ll receive your fundraising pack with stickers, balloons and our famous nightcap!

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@BrainAppeal) for updates about this year’s Pyjama Party.

 
 
Bag yourself an original artwork for £80!
 

A Letter In Mind – our art exhibition and fundraiser – is looking very exciting this year. It's being held at Southbank's gallery@oxo again, and we're getting all the artworks ready all the artworks for the show.

We've had some incredible names send in their work this year: Grayson Perry and Billy Childish, Gill Rocca and Natasha Kidd, Harry Pye – artist and magazine editor, Horace Panter – artist and bassist for The Specials – actors Joanna David, Phyllida Law and Kevin Eldon, illustrators Polly Dunbar, Chris Haughton and Tim Hopgood, BP Portrait Award winner and former head of the Royal Drawing School Catherine Goodman and contemporary British architects Professor Will Alsop and Amin Taha (to name but a few)! Alongside our supporters, students, designers, drawing clubs, and the general public have also shared their extraordinary talent in aid of The National Brain Appea. We cannot wait to unveil them all to you!

Each work will be priced at £80 and exhibited anonymously. The artist’s identity and biography will only be revealed once the exhibition has ended and the work is sold.

The exhibition will be open to the public from Thursday 8 October to Sunday 18 October between 11am and 6pm and you can buy online too.

 
 
Meet Professor Brownstone
 

Welcome to the new Professor of Neurosurgery here at Queen Square − Robert Brownstone.

“My specialty is functional neurosurgery, aimed at improving people’s quality of life,” he explains. Much of his work has focused on modifying the brain’s electrical impulses, when these malfunction and cause conditions like movement disorders, epilepsy or complex pain syndromes.

“I feel very strongly we have a duty and a responsibility to learn more about the brain and how it works. So coming to the Institute and The National, where there is such collaboration across different disciplines, will make it possible to develop our understanding, and use the opportunity to improve treatments for the next generation."

 

Thank you for your support

Theresa, Marcelle, Leigh, Cara, Brooke, Tina and Jess

 
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The National Brain Appeal is the working name of The National Hospital Development Foundation.
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