Trustee, Carol Robertson witnessed the deterioration of her fiercely independent friend Andrea Kay who lost her battle with a grade IV glioblastoma multiforme in May 2002 at the age of 42, just five months after diagnosis. Andrea loved life and is sorely missed by her two children (then teenagers). Carol founded Andrea’s Gift with other work colleagues and is now employed as fundraiser and charity development manager. Her enthusiasm for raising funds to develop long term research projects into adult and paediatric brain tumours, and to provide a level of support for Yorkshire based patients and carers in their very personal battles with the disease, knows no bounds.