Volunteer, patient led charity. Dedicated to NF2 Research. Raising awareness through advocacy, support & hope. Fundraising for new treatments or a cure to NF2.
Living with NF2 brings unique challenges, but new strategies can help. Discover how psychological approaches and neuroscience-based tools empower individuals to manage stress and find meaning.
Watch the recording of our latest webinar here: https://t.co/UuJqvoRLUs
Come and join us at our Virtual Coffee Meet and meet other NF2ers. (carers/family welcome)
Date: 25th June 10.30am BST
Have a chat, say hi or just enjoy the company - the choice is yours
Sign up here: https://t.co/31WiZAmFcO
Guest speaker - Judy Dyer - Pilates instructor
We are celebrating Volunteers week from Monday 1 to Sunday 7 June 2026.
We want to thank all our volunteers for their tireless commitment to our charity and to raising awareness of NF2-SWN, commitment to the NF2 community, connection, sharing stories to overcome the isolation.
We are still meeting those affected by NF2 highlighting their mental health and well being challenges.
We face a distinctive set of mental‑health and wellbeing challenges. NF2 significantly increases emotional strain, anxiety, depression, stress.
Today we meet Simon
#endNF2
We are still meeting those affected by NF2 highlighting their mental health and well being challenges.
We face a distinctive set of mental‑health and wellbeing challenges. NF2 significantly increases emotional strain, anxiety, depression, stress
Today we meet James
#endNF2
We are still meeting those affected by NF2 highlighting their mental health and well being challenges.
We face a distinctive set of mental‑health and wellbeing challenges. NF2 significantly increases emotional strain, anxiety, depression & stress
Today we meet Saskia
#endNF2
We are still meeting those affected by NF2 highlighting their mental health and well being challenges.
We face a distinctive set of mental‑health and wellbeing challenges. NF2 significantly increases emotional strain, with higher rates of anxiety, depression, stress
Meet William
we ask you to watch this video, it is 3 minutes of your life.
To an NF2er that 3 minutes could change their lives for ever, that is EVERY NF2er around the world.
This is what we face. This is the mental and emotional toll of living with NF2.
https://t.co/EH9ShYBel3
Emily Owen @nervetumoursuk ambassador shares a poignant poem with us in her blog.
Diagnosed with NF2 as a teenager, NF2 has caused Emily to lose her hearing, left her with facial weakness and with difficulty walking.
https://t.co/m4J2UzWnQm
Our message is simple.
Fix the Gene, Cure NF2, Change Lives
Join Us.
Donate here:
https://t.co/GxGB97VYI9
or (USA/Canada/Europe)
https://t.co/6eL8PO4Wnu
Behind every diagnosis is a person, a family, a fight, read our journeys here:
https://t.co/s5LgDKYq1Y
#ENDNF2
We are discussing mental health in NF2-SWN today. Now we meet Kim Whitlock, trustee of Cure NF2 Foundation UK & Europe.
Here Kim shares a very honest account of her recent surgery and its effects it has had on her mental wellbeing.
https://t.co/DDMOLjJu51
#endNF2#NF2awareness
Our theme this NF2 Awareness Day is mental health and wellbeing with an NF2 Diagnosis We have met real people affected by NF2 highlighting their challenges in this area.
We face a distinctive set of mental‑health and wellbeing challenges in NF2
Today we meet Pujitha
#endNF2