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On the 15th September 2016 myself along with a team of enthusiastic cyclists (Plods and Bombs) from Consett will be riding 200+ miles from Edinburgh to Consett over 3 days.

I am choosing to do this in aid of the motor neurone disease association. MND is a fatal neurological disease that affects up to 5000 adults in the UK at any one time and kills 5 people everyday, a third within 2 years of diagnosis. It has no cure as yet.

Recently through my employment as a local community Physiotherapist I have personally witnessed the devastating effects of this disease. This has inspired me to try and do something to help this worthy cause.

The association aims to improve care and support for people with the disease, their families and carers. They fund and promote research into this little known about disease that leads to new understanding and treatments and hopefully closer to finding a cure. 

Every donation makes a difference to a person living with MND. Here are a few examples of how fundraising could help: 

• £5 provides an information pack for a newly diagnosed person with MND
• £15 runs the MND Connect evening helpline.
• £35 buys adapted cutlery to help a person with MND continue to feed themselves.
• £75 funds an MND researcher for half a day.
• £100 funds lab equipment for 2 days vital reader has into finding out the causes of MND.
• £200 provides a basic level of respite care for a day.

Please could I ask for people to kindly give generously whatever you can spare for this very worthy cause.

Thank you and best wishes

Gavin.

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