Angel Mums group of bereaved parents win Just Giving fundraising award

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Angel Mums –  a fundraising group started by a Barton-le-Clay mum who lost her son to brain cancer –  has won the GoCardless JustGiving Team Fundraiser of the Year 2024 award. Angel Mums started with just eight members, but has sadly grown to 25 as other bereaved and devastated mothers join the group. Louise said at the JustGiving ceremony: “This is more than winning an award to us, it's having our children honoured and raising much-needed awareness of the desperate plight of brain tumours."

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00:00And in this case, the winner is Angel Moms.

00:03Wow, we are absolutely blown away, especially seeing the videos from the other two finalists

00:15and we are sending so much love to Team Corinne and the Wonky Heart Challenge, both two fantastic

00:20causes.

00:22This is more than winning an award to us, it's having our children honoured and raising

00:26much needed awareness of the desperate plight of brain tumours.

00:31We didn't know that brain tumours killed more of our children than any other cancer until

00:35it was too late and our children's lives were cut short.

00:39Our children deserve to be here, but they're not.

00:43We desperately wanted to save them, but we couldn't.

00:46This is beyond painful and we all carry this pain every second of our lives.

00:52We want to channel our pain and our energy into making a difference for other children

00:56diagnosed with a brain tumour in both their journey and eventually the outcome.

01:02We're stronger together, we want to turn our pain into hope and we're working with the

01:06Tessa Jowell Foundation to support the Children's Centres of Excellence.

01:10That means improving standards of care for children diagnosed with brain tumours throughout

01:14the UK.

01:16We've skydived that you've seen, we've climbed Snowdon, we've wing-walked and we're really

01:20excited for the next challenge which is our firewalk on the 19th of October.

01:24Nothing phases us because we've seen our children go through the unthinkable.

01:29Please support us and help us reach our target.

01:32Obviously the QR code will be on there and you can see our link on JustGiving.

01:35We don't want other children and parents to face the trauma that we have and we need help

01:40to be able to change things.

01:42To our children up there in the sky, we miss you with every breath.

01:46This is for all of you and the other brain tumour angels.

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