BRACE Dementia Research: 2023 Charity Partner

Bristol Film Festival works with several local charities, with BRACE Dementia Research selected as 2023’s Charity Partner.

BRACE Dementia Research is a small, Bristol charity with a big impact.  

One in three people born in the UK this year will develop dementia in their lifetime. It is the UK’s biggest killer. It is not a normal part of ageing and research is the only way to find treatments and a cure. 

That is why BRACE Dementia Research supports the Southwest Dementia Brain Bank, one of just six dementia research centres in the UK. The bank stores donated brains which underpin dementia research. In 2022 alone the South West Dementia Brain Bank provided 11,696 samples to researchers across the world.

Despite every major breakthrough in dementia research being made possible by donated human tissue and people like Laura, she is facing redundancy. 

The South West Dementia Brain Bank doesn’t receive government funding, and researchers like Laura need continued funding to make their work possible.

This Bank cannot apply for a loan or an overdraft. When the money is gone, so is the dementia research. 

Please can you help us secure Laura’s work, and the South West Dementia Brain Bank for another 12 months? 

Together we will defeat dementia. Thank you. 

To find out more about why BRACE, Laura and the Southwest Dementia Brain Bank need you today, please click here. 

Registered charity number: 297965