This exciting campaign has bought together communities to create for a cause, so we can raise much needed funds to support individuals and whānau living with a brain tumour.

Thank you to all the amazing and wonderfully generous communities who have knitted and created for us . This year we had a successful exhibition at Fieldays where we sold our beanies and raised awareness at the same time. We were blown away by the support we received and to date have been donated nearly 4000 beanies !! Every Beany sale goes towards funding our Brain Boxes which we send out for free to people diagnosed with Brain Tumours in New Zealand

For anyone who has experienced a sore head of any kind, you’ll remember that you reached for a beanie. They are warm, soft, give you a sense of pride and most importantly, comfort.

For that reason, Brain Tumour Support NZ is in the Beanie business. We need your help. Please. We want every Beanie to be unique.

‘Call for creatives to donate artworks’

So every Beanie is handmade, created with love, by someone who cares, for someone who will be very grateful. This is a fundraising campaign for us and we are so thankful for all creative donations. Donated Beanies will be for sale via our website and become our focal merchandise, as well as some being given in the Brain Box care packages that we gift to people newly diagnosed with a brain tumour. Each Beanie will have a Brainy Beanie tag sewn onto it, just to show how special it is. Please get creative: knit, crochet, felt, go all arty. Whatever you like, to make a Beanie someone would love to wear. Adult or child, large or small, brain tumours do not discriminate.

Hightop, cuffless, brimmer, trawler, hipster, pompom, cuffed... are all words associated with Beanies and therefore too hard for us to determine what you will create or set a pattern.

Learn more about the Brainy Beanies story here