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‘Lots, Frocks and Dickie Bows’ will be held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds on Friday 4 September 2009. We have been inspired to organise the event in memory of Neil Platt who died from Motor Neurone Disease in February this year, aged 34. Look North ran a feature on Neil in late 2008 which provoked a huge response, and also ran a piece announcing his death in February. Having heard about Neil’s battle with MND, both through Neil’s cousin and via his daily website blogs, we decided that we would like to help Neil’s family in their mission to raise public awareness and funds for research into this devastating disease, which also claimed the lives of Neil’s father and grandfather.
The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience will be the world's first medical research centre dedicated to finding treatment and ultimately a cure for Motor Neurone Disease and other neurological conditions including Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s Disease. It is being brought to the city through a partnership of the University of Sheffield and the Sheffield Institute Foundation, which is raising the remaining funds needed. It aims to readdress the balance for a disease which killed 6,000 people between 1999 and 2004, but attracted only £8 million for research - compared to the human variant of mad cow disease, which killed 92 people and received £33 million. Neil was a patient of Professor Pam Shaw who is majorly involved with the Sheffield Institute. Neil very much lent his enthusiastic support to this venture and this is a major reason why he engaged in a publicity campaign during the course of his illness.
All money raised on the evening will be split equally between the Sheffield Institute and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
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