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Having taken up the challenge of getting married last year, we have decided on doing another one this year - climbing Ben Nevis for the Alzheimers Society!

Marie's lovely dad Jim was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in November 2007 and her Uncle Tony just a few months after with Vascular Dementia.  They are both cared for by their wives who do an amazing job of looking after their husbands and coping with the effects, worries and emotions that living with a person with dementia brings.

The term 'dementia' is used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is damaged by specific diseases. These diseases include Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Someone with dementia may have difficulties remembering, solving problems or concentrating. Vascular dementia is a type of dementia caused by problems in the supply of blood to the brain.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia affecting around 417,000 people in the UK. Alzheimer's disease was first described by a German neurologist Dr Alois Alzheimer. Alzheimer's disease is a physical disease of the brain. During the course of the disease plaques and tangles develop in the brain leading to the death of brain cells.

We have decided to climb Ben Nevis as a personal challenge as we both aren't really big fans of excercise and much prefer eating nice food, watching telly and occasionally making people laugh!  And climbing a mountain is nothing compared to the challenge of living with and caring for someone with these terrible diseases.

We need to raise a minimum of £1500 for the cost of our trip and minimum sponsorship, so smashing that target would be an amazing acheivement, but we need your help to do it.

Please, please please donate to this page as little or as much as you can - dont forget if you're a UK tax payer to donate Gift Aid as well as that is extra free money from the goverment that can go towards the vital work that the Alzheimers society do.

You can find out more about the work of the Alzheimers Society at http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/

 

Thank you very very very much

Marie & Carl

 

 

 

 

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This money was just resting in my account. Thought you guys might want it. Donation by Ted Crilly on 11/10/10

 
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Congratulations, Marie and Carl! Love from Ann, Maurice and Sarah xxx Donation by Sarah O'Neill on 26/09/10

 
£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
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Good stuff guys... Carl, call this a deposit to do my charity gig in January!! No pressure. Good luck with it guys, xx Donation by Charles Meek on 22/09/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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Well done you two! Kate xxxx Donation by Kate Ibbotson on 20/09/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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You'll be well on your way up by now! Good luck & hope to see you both very soon after you get down. xxxx Donation by Sophie & Jon on 18/09/10

 
£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
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Break a leg!! Donation by Tim Tomalin-Reeves on 18/09/10

 
£200.00 + £56.41 Gift Aid
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Good Luck Donation by Rebecca Perez-Kegg on 13/09/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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good luck! Donation by david levin on 13/09/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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Great cause! Donation by Joanne Lau on 13/09/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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Donation by Tiernan Douieb on 13/09/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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Good luck kids and don't look down! Donation by Lisa O'Neill on 13/09/10

 
£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid
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Have fun and good luck x Donation by Chris Jackson on 09/09/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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Good luck guys - remember Marie the best way to deal with hills is get them over and done with as quickly as possible! xxx Donation by Katie Jackson on 09/09/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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You're bloody brilliant you two. I will be cheering you on from my sofa...xxx Donation by Tubbs McGuire on 03/09/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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Good luck. xx Donation by Samantha Hind on 31/08/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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Best Wishes. Such a worthy cause Jenny and Tony Tomalin-Reeves Donation by Tony Tomalin-Reeves on 31/08/10

 
£15.00
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Good luck guys, such a worthy cause. Plus another vote for Carl in his pants.. Donation by James Woroniecki on 27/08/10

 
£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
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Good Luck Mr & Mrs Donnelly :) xxx Donation by lynsay Kennedy on 27/08/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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I'll triple this if Carl does it in his pants. Donation by Thomas Mayhew on 26/08/10

 
£2.00
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good luck, team. will double it if Carl does it in his pants Donation by Chris Martin on 26/08/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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Awesome stuff, good luck!!!!!! Donation by Keir Richardson on 26/08/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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Good on you both for working the buns of steel and what a lovely way to spend a weekend x Donation by Fiz on 26/08/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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Good luck and good on ya McLovin's! Donation by Aaaaaaaaaaanth on 26/08/10

 
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Good Luck McDonnellys!! Have a good old sing song to keep you going :-) Lorra love, Natalie xxx Donation by Natalie Sweeden on 26/08/10

 
£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
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go go Donnellys - best of luck to you both. Love Pauline x Donation by Pauline Milligan on 26/08/10

 
£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
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