The Mark Hughes Foundation (MHF) is a charity formed in Newcastle by Mark and Kirralee Hughes following Mark’s diagnosis with Brain Cancer in 2014. The Mark Hughes Foundation’s mission is to raise much needed funds for research, to create awareness and support brain cancer patients and their families.
Brain cancer receives less than 5% of all federal gov. cancer research funding!
Approx 1200 Australians die of brain cancer each year
Brain cancer kills more children than any other disease
Thanks to you since 2014 Beanie for Brain Cancer campaign has raised >$10M
Brain cancer kills more Australians under 40 than any other cancer
Brain cancer survival rates have increased just 1% over the past 30 years
Only 2 in 10 people diagnosed with brain cancer will survive at least 5 years
1600/year, or about one person every five hours is diagnosed with brain cancer
Donate $25* or more via the Everyday Hero page to the Mark Hughes Foundation for your chance to win two...
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, QLD Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and some of our favourite TV, radio and...
Thousands of sports fans are being encouraged to ‘get their beanies on’ this week at Newcastle’s McDonald Jones Stadium as...
Mark, Paul and their intrepid trekkers are tackling the mountains, rivers and jungles of Borneo in October to help tackle brain cancer.
A great information piece from Kelly McKelvey, the recipient of the Matt Callander Fellowship, about her research project at...
In an amazing display of generosity, the rugby league community rallied to raise $2,619,000 in the NRL’s Beanie for Brain...
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