My lovely friend Marge was looking for recruits to her 40 x 40 team to run the Great North Run for Alzheimer’s Research UK in 2019. I was looking for a challenge to work towards and this was ideal: the challenge of doing a half marathon when I have never been much of a runner, and a cause to raise money for which is very close to my heart.

The team goal is to raise £40,000 for ARUK. I would like to meet my individual target of £1,000 to fund vital research into dementia. 

Many of us running in the team have personal experience of a family member with dementia, it’s a horrendous disease that has a devastating impact on the whole family. 

What your donation will go towards

Alzheimer’s Research UK receive no government funding for their research and are completely dependent on supporters to fund their research programme:

• £20 raised pays for 1 hour of pioneering dementia research 
• £100 raised could provide the tools for scientists to map 10,000 genes in minute detail, identifying targets for the development of new treatments 
• £500 raised will cover the cost of a sensitive brain scan for a patient involved in a research study, tracking the effectiveness of new drug treatments, improving diagnosis and better understanding how diseases like Alzheimer’s wreak their havoc in the brain 
• £1,000 raised will pay for reagents, unique chemicals that are crucial for successfully growing cells in a laboratory ready for disease study
• £2,500 raised will allow researchers to buy synthetically made amyloid, to better understand this hallmark Alzheimer’s protein in the lab.

Thank you so much for contributing to this worthwhile cause, it means so much to me and all the team.

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