Today 50 million people around the world live with dementia.

To tackle the diseases that lead to dementia will take an effort of enormous magnitude and global reach. Essential in the challenge to defeat dementia is the fundraising that fuels vital research. We believe our fundraising efforts should mirror the mammoth scale of this challenge.

Therefore, this year, we are taking on our most ambitious fundraising campaign yet.

Together, we will run around the world to PREVENT dementia.

From February 2019 to February 2020, between us, we will cover a combined distance of 40,075km. The equivalent to running all the way around the equator of the earth.

For this we will need your help.

Regular exercise that gets your heart beating faster is one of the most effective ways that you can look after your brain health. We are asking you - along with your friends, family and colleagues, to join our running team and contribute towards our grand total of 40,075km. From a light jog around the park to an ultra-marathon, every step will build towards our ultimate goal. By adding up the kilometres covered from every individual member of our running team we aim to make it around the world by the end of February 2020. Please join us in the race to PREVENT dementia!

Every penny raised will support the PREVENT Dementia Research Programme led from the University of Edinburgh. The goal of PREVENT Dementia is to find new ways to detect the earliest changes in the brain long before symptoms appear. Our goal is to predict who is at greatest risk of dementia and develop strategies to intervene and slow or prevent the disease.

For more information on our research visit: www.preventdementia.co.uk

Follow our progress on Twitter: @AD_PREVENT

To get involved with our running challenge visit: https://edin.ac/PREVENT

Or contact:

Neil (PREVENT Dementia Research Assistant) on 0131 651 7661 / prevent@ed.ac.uk

Kerry (Senior Community Fundraising Officer) on 0131 650 9221 / kerry.mackay@ed.ac.uk