Our partnership with Scottish Huntington's Association is an opportunity to transform the lives of families facing this rare and cruel condition. We want to raise awareness and support families by providing HD specialists, financial wellbeing advisors to manage financial hardship and specialist youth advisors to help young people facing enormous challenges today and in the future.

Our people chose to support Scottish Huntington's Association after the charity was nominated by Grant Thornton employee Robert Hannah, whose wife has Huntingtons disease.

In Scotland, around 1,100 people have the disease, with a further 6,000 at risk of inheriting it. Symptoms typically begin between the ages of 30 and 50, which has a massive impact on working lives and family income - one in three families live below the poverty line. Each child of a person with HD has a 50% chance of inheriting the condition.