Yorkshire lass sportive is in its 6th year now and we always choose a guest charity, in 2022 we will have two and MND will be one of them.

Jane Jones is one of the YLS organisers, her brother Paul  Pearson passed away on the 13th Dec 2019  aged just 64 , he was diagnosed with MND in 2008.  

He is sadly missed and remembered with fond memories, we are raising funds for MND  in Paul's memory.

The basics about MND 

With MND, messages from the motor neurones gradually stop reaching the muscles. This leads the muscles to weaken, stiffen and waste. MND can affect how you walk, talk, eat, drink and breathe. Some people also experience changes in their thinking and behaviour. However, MND affects everyone differently. Not all symptoms will affect everyone, or in the same order. Symptoms also progress at varying speeds, which makes the course of the disease difficult to predict.

MND is life-shortening and there is no cure. Although the disease will progress, symptoms can be managed to help achieve the best possible quality of life.

It can affect adults of any age but is more likely to affect people over 50.

There is a 1 in 300 risk of being diagnosed with MND. In other words, if you have 10,000 people in a stadium, 33 of them will get MND at some point across a normal lifespan.

However, the prevalence of a disease is the number of people currently living with that condition. As the progression of MND can be rapid, fewer people are living with this disease than you might expect with a 1 in 300 risk. This means the prevalence is low, with up to 5,000 people living with MND in the UK at any one time. This is why MND is not seen as a common disease.

This means general health and social care professionals may not see many cases of MND. It's important to seek out specialists who have appropriate experience in MND treatment and care – usually with referral to neurological services.

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