LCTF was founded in 2010 by Grant and Adrienne Currie in memory of their daughter, Lauren. Lauren had just turned 15 when she died from Wegener’s Granulomatosis (now called Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis, a variant of vasculitis).

Lauren’s death was made even more tragic by the fact it needn’t have happened. Had her symptoms been pieced together, a diagnosis could have been made and the outcome could have been very different.

And so her legacy is The Lauren Currie Twilight Foundation – a charity named after her obsession with The Twilight Saga, which aims to raise awareness of vasculitis so that the same thing doesn’t happen to someone else.