Two exciting events are coming up for our Brainy Beanies in 2025

Christchurch Exhibition at the Pumanawa Gallery in the Arts Centre Monday 19th-Sunday 25th May Learn more

Fieldays in Hamilton Wednesday 11th - Saturday 14th June - more details to come.

Join us in celebrating the amazing creations showcasing creativity throughout New Zealand

All Beanies will be for sale and funds raised contribute to supporting people and whanau impacted by a brain tumour diagnosis

Brainy Beanies in Christchurch- Exhibition at the Arts Centre from 19-25 May. Learn more about this exciting event and download a poster to help spread the word !

Brainy Beanies in Christchurch

Selling Beanies at your workplace

Does your business or workplace want to support Brain Tumour Support NZ? You can help raise awareness by selling beanies! We’ll send you a crate of beanies to sell—just reach out to arrange delivery.

All beanies come in mixes of adult and children. They are all tagged and labelled with instructions of how to pay for the beanies online, through a QR code that takes the purchaser directly to our payment gateway, so all you need to do is display the unique creations in your workplace.

Brainy Beanies Crate Sales- How it Works

The Brainy Beanie Story

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.

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, use your imagination.

Learn more about the brainy beanies story