Welcome to the Team Octavia SMA Trust Fund Raising Page

In 2011 Team Octavia raised over £264,000 as part of the original Momentum ADventure (MAD) campaign that continues to this day with many other teams continuing to raise vital funds for research into Spinal Muscular Atrophy. A list of the brilliant challengers and their pages are below.

October 2015 - Octavia is now at Southampton University reading English and has just attended and spoken at the SMA Muscle Power Dinner held at the Underglobe in London. We are raising funds for a new initiative called The SMA ‘Muscle Power’ Research Consortium.

This is a challenging research program lead by Professor Kevin Talbot from Oxford University. The objective of the SMA ‘Muscle Power’ Research Consortium is to improve the lives of people with SMA by recruiting the UK’s strongest mind. The creation of this Consortium brings together our brightest scientists on a dedicated three-year program, working on novel therapies that will improve the quality of life of those living with SMA and other related neuromuscular diseases. Oxford, Newcastle, Sheffield, Edinburgh Universities will collaborate to deliver the £1m+ program funded by the SMA Trust. 

 What is The SMA Trust?

The SMA Trust is the only charity in the UK dedicated to raising funds for research into Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMA is the leading genetic killer of toddlers and babies. SMA affects the motor neurons in the spinal cord, causing muscular weakness, severe disability and premature death. 50% of the most severely diagnosed cases result in death by the age of two. 1 in every 40 people carries the gene that causes this disease (around 1.5million people in the UK).

What can you do?

As part of this Campaign we will be launching new challenges in the coming months and years but if you would like to help us then please feel free to donate on this page or carry out a challenge of your own for The SMA Trust.

Donating through Just Giving is simple, fast and totally secure but if you do not wish to donate online then please send cheques payable to

The SMA Trust, 1c Atherstone Barns, Atherstone on Stour, Warwickshire, CV37 8NE

 The Original Challenge

Octavia drove her Pony & Trap 110 miles from Windsor to Wincanton 

Octavia Woodwardhttp://www.justgiving.com/octavia-woodward

Victoria Edmondsonhttp://www.justgiving.com/VikiTheVet 

Completed Responses to the Challenge

MAD SW Coastal Path Walk – 630 Mile Walk

Tim Woodward www.justgiving.com/Timothy-Woodward

Andrew Hartley www.justgiving.com/Andrew-Hartley1

Adam Moorhouse www.justgiving.com/Adam-Moorhouse

Simon Gwynne www.justgiving.com/Simon-Gwynne

Andrew Stone www.justgiving.com/Andrew-J-Stone

Sarah Brown www.justgiving.com/Sarah-Brown8

 MAD New York Marathon www.justgiving.com/Angela-Campbell-Noe/.

MAD Cycle Ride www.justgiving.com/Barnaby-Woodward/

MAD 3 Peak Challenge www.justgiving.com/ubs-clearingdudes

MAD London Triathlon www.justgiving.com/thefoxie

MAD South Down Way Walk www.justgiving.com/south-downs-challenge

Tatiana’s MAD Racecourse Ride www.justgiving.com/Tatiana-Penfold

Rob MAD Marathon www.justgiving.com/RobFoxTokyoMarathon2012