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£14,383
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    Weʼve raised £14,383 to help the Davies family buy specialist equipment & adapt their home for their little boy, Oliver. Oliver has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2.

    Rochford, United Kingdom
    Funded on Wednesday, 18th May 2022

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    Story

    Oliver was born on 22nd May 2015 and is the youngest of 3 children.

    When he was almost 1, his parents noticed Oliver was not bearing any weight on his legs and whilst he was sitting he was unable to move out of position without assistance.

    After a year of misdiagnosis Oliver was sadly diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 in June 2017 only 2 weeks after his 2nd birthday.

    Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a genetic condition that makes the muscles weaker and causes problems with movement.

    It's a serious condition that gets worse over time, but there are treatments to help manage the symptoms

    In order to live life to the maximum Oliver requires various items of equipment including a specialist wheelchair and standing frame among others. These are not available on the NHS and the best wheelchair he could get (designed by another SMA sufferer) costs up to £25,000!!

    In addition, the Davies' family need to drastically adapt and extend their home to make it fully accessible for Oliver.

    As most of you are aware we lost our own son, Jack, to SMA in August at just 3 months old . We have already raised a large amount of money and awareness for The SMA Trust but we would love to now turn our attention to raising money to help another local family in memory of our little boy.

    Please help us, help the Davies family in any way you can.

    Thank you!!

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    • Sarah Dorrington6 years ago
      Sarah Dorrington

      Sarah Dorrington

      6 years ago

      Horse riding is an excellent form of physiotherapy, working the core muscles even whilst the horse is walking.. Oliver rides with the rda (riding for the disabled) who have really supported his independence on horse back sourcing a special saddle to give him independence and organising courses which will include stretches

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    • Sarah Dorrington6 years ago
      Sarah Dorrington

      Sarah Dorrington

      6 years ago

      Oliver with Jack’s big sister Daisy and Captain America! 😍

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    • Sarah Dorrington6 years ago
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      Sarah Dorrington

      6 years ago

      The Dorrington and Davies Family meeting Metro Man at Metro bank last year. Metro very generously donated towards our crowdfunding for Oliver in memory of Jack xxx

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    7 years ago

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    Supporters

    110

    • Ed

      Ed

      Sep 8, 2020

      £100.00

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Feb 12, 2020

      Well done in all your efforts

      £250.00

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      May 7, 2019

      £10.00

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Feb 10, 2019

    • Martin

      Martin

      Sep 28, 2018

      Well done Jamie

      £20.00

    • Grace

      Grace

      Sep 25, 2018

      Well done Jamie, you did so well you superstar!! X

      £10.00

    • Toby

      Toby

      Sep 24, 2018

      Well done Jamie, smashed it 👍

      £10.00

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    Sarah Dorrington

    Sarah Dorrington

    Rochford, United Kingdom

    In July 2017 our beautiful baby boy, Jack William, was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 at just 7 weeks old. 6 weeks later Jack sadly passed away. In memory of our boy we want to raise as much awareness as possible for SMA, the number 1 genetic killer of infants.

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