Alfie Boe OBE, our latest Patron, finishes his UK tour tonight in his dwelling city of Blackpool and donations to Mind Tumour Analysis from his military of followers have thus far topped £16,000.
The multi-platinum promoting recording artist, referred to as the nation’s favorite tenor, spoke movingly to audiences about shedding his father, Alfred, to a mind tumour when he was 23.
Having beforehand lent his assist to our Shine A Mild and Put on A Hat Day occasions, Alfie invited the Mind Tumour Analysis fundraising workforce to attend his newest Encore tour to boost important funds to assist discover a remedy.
Amongst our workforce gathering the beneficiant donations was volunteer Debra (under left), from Porthcawl, who attended Alfie’s present at Cardiff’s New Theatre on 13 June, alongside her pal Sian.
Debra misplaced her solely baby, Jenna, at simply 15 to a mind tumour in January this yr, three years after she was identified with a diffuse hemispheric glioma.
Debra stated: “Listening to Alfie converse throughout his present about his father was so shifting and it’s clear he’s so enthusiastic about elevating consciousness for Mind Tumour Analysis. His followers have been pretty, they have been queuing as much as donate and several other of them shared their very own experiences of how mind tumours had affected them.
“Assembly Alfie was the icing on the cake. He stopped to speak and he ended up asking to have a photograph taken with us, relatively than the opposite approach round!”
We thank Alfie and all his followers for his or her generosity in serving to us proceed our journey to discover a remedy.
You may assist fund important analysis by making a one-off or common donation, nonetheless massive or small. Collectively we will make a distinction.
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