December 2019
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A bumper year
It's been a fantastic 2019 thanks to you!
We know you want us to make projects happen quickly to improve life for those living with neurological conditions. We do this by funding the best treatments and support, improved training and facilities, and innovative solution-focused research programmes. Your help has enabled us to achieve the goal we set ourselves – to fund over £2million of projects each year by the end of this year. Over the next three years we plan to raise even more to deliver the exciting projects being formulated today.
Our success this year (and every year) is thanks to all the incredible fundraisers, the grant-making trusts that support us and the legacy gifts we received. Hundreds of individual supporters also pushed themselves to the limit for Queen Square. These amazing runners, riders, trekkers, swimmers, quizzers and donors raised a magnificent £1.3m. Thank you one and all!
Theresa Dauncey, Chief Executive
A night of singing
A huge thanks to everyone who came along and sung at the top of their voices at our Carol Concert last week. We had a wonderful evening celebrating with you, and received so many lovely comments about the concert.
Thank you to our wonderful readers: actors Emilia Fox, Stephen Mangan, Robert Glenister and Sylvestra le Touzel; writer Sebastian Faulks; former patient and fundraiser Sasha Maisel; and clinican Dr Hadi Manji. We were also lucky to have musical performances by The Julius Singers, opera singer Louisa Petais, the Queen Square Scratch Orchestra and Mick Powell on saxophone, accompanied by his daughter (and singer) Alice Brown.
The concert raised an incredible £8,000 – and we look forward to celebrating with you again next year!
Another success story
We wanted to say another thank you – this time to all of you who so generously donated to our Giving Tuesday campaign this month.
The sheer numbers of you donating in response to our special e-letter was heart-warming and brought in a whopping £4,000 – which is our most successful Giving Tuesday to date.
We are very lucky to have such incredible supporters!
Gala dinner 2020
There has been a rush for tickets to attend the Mission: Possible gala event on 29 February 2020, which is raising funds for Rare Dementia Support. So much so, that we have a very limited amount of tickets left. If you still wanted to attend, please email us, letting us know how many tickets you are interested in.
We are still welcoming companies, foundations or individuals to partner with us for the event. If you would be interested in supporting the event by sponsoring an element of the evening or putting an advert in the programme, please click the button below to find out more.
EXCITING NEWS FOR 2020: Watch this space for information about our next two major appeals, launching early next year!
OFFICE HOURS THIS CHRISTMAS
Monday 23 Dec: 9am-5pm
Christmas Eve-New Year's Day: closed
Monday 2 Jan: 9am-5.30pm
For more events, personal stories and how you can get involved, please visit
www.nationalbrainappeal.org, or follow us @brainappeal and on Facebook at fb/TheNationalBrainAppeal
Theresa, Marcelle, Cara, Tina, Eva, Anna, Alexis, Nicky, Marie, Kim, Jane, Shaun, Julia, Lisa and Seb
