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Neurovision live music event

Neurovision is a one-night-only live music event, being held at the Carnival Brewing taproom in Liverpool.

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Liverpool Cathedral abseil

Abseil 150ft down Liverpool's iconic Anglican Cathedral to fundraise for The Brain Charity. Book your place now for just £10.

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Coffee morning

Anyone with a neurological condition, their friends and carers are welcome to join us at our regular coffee mornings.

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News items

The four Endura Project Heid CAT-scan cycling helmets

Endura creates bike helmets using real life head injury scans in partnership with The Brain Charity

In partnership with The Brain Charity, Endura has designed the world’s most graphic cycle helmets

Category: Real life stories

Published: 13 March 2023

Title frame from the video showing a schoolboy with 500 words written acros screen

Teenage popstar records song about his experience of dyslexia

The 14-year-old wrote 500 Words to help people understand how dyslexia affects his life

Category: Real life stories

Published: 3 March 2023

Pammy holding the HAPTA lipstick applicator

Brain Charity client who began acting career after stroke stars in global L’Oréal beauty campaign

Pammy is the face of HAPTA, the world’s first handheld computerised makeup applicator

Category: Real life stories

Published: 1 March 2023

Author Robert Douglas-Fairhust

Ten tips for dealing with MS

Advice on how to cope with being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS)

Category: Real life stories

Published: 1 March 2023

Isaac with his mum Louise

My boy has Sturge-Weber syndrome and myasthenia gravis, but he takes everything in his stride

Louise is sharing 12-year-old son Isaac's story to mark Rare Disease Day

Category: Real life stories

Published: 27 February 2023

Blue Cross medal winner Storm with owner Karen: credit SWNS

Hero pet which saved Brain Charity client and her husband from burglars awarded animal bravery prize

Storm, a 12-year-old Alaskan Malamute, has won the Blue Cross Medal 2022 for protecting his humans Karen and Phil

Category: Real life stories

Published: 18 October 2022

Paul taking part in the Liverpool RnR Marathon

Dad paralysed during Parkrun and given 30% chance of survival learns to walk again

Paul defied the odds to walk a mile for The Brain Charity - raising nearly £2,000

Category: Real life stories

Published: 4 October 2022

Guy Deacon standing in the African desert

SPOTLIGHT ON: A retired army colonel’s journey across Africa to raise awareness of Parkinson’s

Colonel Guy Deacon is driving 12,000 miles solo to Capetown

Category: Real life stories

Published: 5 July 2022

Daughter hugs her mum

New mum who fell asleep next to her baby and woke up in hospital after brain aneurysm ruptured shares recovery story

Juliet experienced a subarachnoid haemorrhage when her child was just 5 months old

Category: Real life stories

Published: 21 June 2022

Gareth at different ages

Mum bereaved by glioblastoma calls for awareness of similarities between brain tumour and mental illness symptoms

Barbara's son Gareth passed away from a glioblastoma brain tumour in January 2019

Category: Real life stories

Published: 25 May 2022