<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">On 10 January 2012 I will be leaving Scotland for Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world. Here's why.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2007 at the age of 36 my friend, Bryn Williams, was told he had Parkinson's disease.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">After his diagnosis Bryn set up Wobbly Williams to raise awareness of young onset Parkinson's disease and to&nbsp;raise funds to finance projects that would lead to a cure for Parkinson's.&nbsp;This year Bryn set up a charity, Funding Neuro, when the Wobbly Williams team was given the opportunity to advance the cure for&nbsp;neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease, brain tumours, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Huntington's and motor neurone disease. Over the next two years Funding Neuro aims to raise &pound;500,000, initially focussing on funding research on reliable methods of delivering drugs and therapeutic devices through the blood-brain barrier to where they will do most good. </span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The climbers in the team have already paid for the costs of the climb.&nbsp;Every penny raised will go towards the research. Please give whatever you can to help me and&nbsp;the team&nbsp;raise as much money as possible towards advancing the cure of Parkinson's and other neurological conditions.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fiona </span></span></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>