Charity Rugby League : Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:34 pm
Hi Everybody.Ive started this topic to ask for donations towards our Charity Rugby League Team.
I am currently running a Rugby League team for the Charity "Brain Tumour research and support across Yorkshire", and we are Currently in desperate need of equipment, such as Playing Balls, Kits and Post Protectors, or we will be forced to fold.
We have been in touch with many kit suppliers and have been unsuccessful with our venture due to lack of funding. If we cant get the basics sorted asap we will be forced to fold as a club, which could effect the progress of such a great charity.
In 2010 a upcoming rugby player was seriously effected by a brain tumor and had to give up the game he lived for. After several meeting we decided to form a rugby team to play games on behalf of Brain tumor Research and support across yorkshire (the charity which helped with Joe's recovery).
Brain Tumour Research and Support across Yorkshire aims to provide a network of support across Yorkshire for brain tumour patients and their families.
In 2003 Andrea’s Gift registered as a charity with the sole aim of funding research and providing improved patient support for anyone affected by a brain tumour in Yorkshire. The charity changed its name from Andrea's Gift to BTRS in 2011 as the charity trustees believed this change would help us to connect more easily with patients and their families, medics and nurses in Yorkshire.
2011 saw the charity open Yorkshire’s first brain tumour research lab, based at the Leeds Institute for Molecular Medicine, supporting a high-level research team who work on long-term paediatric and adult brain tumour research projects. The project is co-funded with children's cancer charity Candlelighters.
Nationally, less than 1% of all the funds raised for research into cancer is devoted to brain tumour research, yet brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of our children and more people under the age of 40 die from brain tumours than from any other cancer.
If you are willing to donate, please feel free to PM me.
Many Thanks
