Stephen Cronin
Frank's Team's Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 2014 page
Fundraising for Alzheimer's Research UK
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Success! In a monsoon.
Despite all and the most appalling weather we got round and enjoyed it.
There is amazing money donated through this site and the related site from other Franks team members and we are very grateful.
We've also listed the £7,000 donated off line by the Peter Vardy Foundation to match our other earnings. He's also donating £3,000 to Alzheimer's society in support of the GNR teams. Just amazing generosity and support, thank you.
There's a couple more events to come, not least being the Great North Run with over 35 runners so hopefully we are making a significant donation to this very important charity.
Please keep donating!
FRANK 'S TEAM
Frank, is 81 and maybe for 10 years or more Alzheimer's has been taking away the very things that built his life, his maths, his logic, his memory, his rational analysis and his independence.
So some friends, family and other good people have joined to form "Frank's Team" to undertake a number of challenges and events and make some real money over the next year For Alzheimer's research.
The bigest challenge, probably, is 100 miles of the London Olympic bike route. 5 to 7 hours of hard, hard work after weeks of training. Some of us haven't done any proper cycling so get sponsoring for a great cause!
- There are currently 800,000 people with dementia in the UK.
- Dementia is terminal, there is no cure
- There are over 17,000 younger people with dementia in the UK.
- There will be over a million people with dementia by 2021.
- 60,000 deaths a year are directly attributable to dementia.
- Delaying the onset of dementia by 5 years would reduce deaths directly attributable to dementia by 30,000 a year.
- The financial cost of dementia to the UK will be over £23 billion in 2012.
- There are 670,000 carers of people with dementia in the UK
- Family carers of people with dementia save the UK over £8 billion a year..
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