Thank you for taking time to visit my JustGiving page.

20 years ago this year I lost my dad to Motor Neurone Disease. 

For those of you who don't know, MND is a group of diseases that affect the nerves (the motor neurones) in the brain and spinal cord, that tell your muscles what to do. With MND, messages from these nerves gradually stop reaching the muscles, causing them to weaken, stiffen and waste. 

As you can imagine, it is a cruel disease, and we all miss my dad everyday.

MND is also a lot more common than people think. In fact, a person's lifetime risk of developing MND is around 1 in 300. That is one person in an average size cinerma screen. 

In memory of my dad, I have decided to do a 24 hour Dance-a-thon.

That's right: dancing for 24 hours! My friends and I are going to be dancing, here at SJP, on the 23rd March at 12:00pm to 12:00pm the next day. 

Any donations you can make will be sincerely appreciated. I know post-Christmas money is tight, but I would be really grateful for anything you can spare. The Charitable Foundation has also been so kind, and have offered to match whatever we raise for the MNDA. That is why the link is to the Foundation, and not the MNDA, so they can collect and then match whatever we raise.

My aim is to raise £8,000. I know, it sounds like a lot, but for £4,000, the MNDA can trial a new treatment on an MND sufferer for a year. So my aim is to help two families have care, and possibly life saving treatment, that they wouldn't have been able to otherwise.

Hopefully we can find a cure to MND together.

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