Dear all

Thank you for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

Myself and "The Hairy Highlanders" team are partaking in the Lake District Ultra Challenge being the full continuous 100km (64 miles) for the MS Society Scotland. 

We will be raising money for the MS Society Scotland with the aim of increasing awareness of this unpredictable neurological disease and help the MS Society carry on their research into more – and better – treatments for MS, and hopefully one day, a cure.

As many of you will know Joanna my wife was diagnosed with MS in 2015. Jo has Relapsing Remitting MS and has suffered visual and walking problems as well as numbness and fatigue to name just a few. Despite this, it is thanks to charities like the MS Society that Jos current treatment enables her to live a very active life, however we are very much aware that many others including Jos mother, are not so lucky.

MS is a very unpredictable disease of the central nervous system, it poses severe challenges to one’s quality of life and has as yet no known cure and for many like Jo, any reliable way of stopping its progression. Once diagnosed, MS stays with you for life, but treatments and specialists can help you to slow the progression of the disease and manage its symptoms. A specific cause has not yet been found and neither has a cure, but research is progressing fast.

It would mean so much to myself and the team to try and raise as much money as possible to help fund research into this awful disease and hopefully to one day find a cure.

Best wishes

Archie