Inkfish brains help Brainstrust

Over 50 of the Brighton Inkfish team members tested their brains last week in a pub quiz to raise money for the Brainstrust Charity, set up three years ago by their software development manager, Mark Shackelford. When his 19 year old niece, Meg Jones, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, her family found that there was no charity to help sufferers and their families, so they decided to start one, and Mark was asked to be Chairman of Trustees.

Mark, from Worthing, and the Brainstrust founder, Helen Bulbeck (Meg's mother), have ambitious plans for Brainstrust. They are aiming to establish a Brainstrust Centre of Excellence in the UK, including a research unit at Portsmouth University and also a facility at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London to bring the surgery which saved Meg over from America.

Mark says: "Meg has come through smiling; we still don't know how she survived the frequent seizures and bizarre visions, but she has made a full recovery from a very complex tumour thanks to medical excellence. That's what I want to bring here."

Inkfish has adopted the charity for the year to help sufferers like Meg and expects to raise lots of money. As charity organiser, Howard Doney, says: "Fortunately the quiz wasn't too taxing, but we're all going to need a lot more brain power for the fund raising events we have planned in the future!"

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