Chewie and The Great North Run

Lukas Bennett is raising money for Intractable Epilepsy Charity
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Great North Run 2023 · 10 September 2023 ·

The charity funds prescription costs of medicinal cannabis for those with Intractable Epilepsy when prescribed by a specialist clinician on the GMC register and in line with NHS guidance. Many of these children and young adults suffer hundreds of devastating seizures every day. Nearly all have exhausted the traditional pharmaceutical anti-epileptic drugs. Medicinal cannabis is the only medicine that helps. Medicinal cannabis has been legal in the UK since 2018, but access on the NHS remains blocked. So the families have to cope with the immense strain of fundraising up to £2,000 a month to access it privately and deal with the daily care of their sick children. Imagine if this was your child. Please help us to help them. Your donations will support the families to continue getting the medicine they so desperately need.

Story

Started running just over a year ago properly and this was to better myself, my fitness, and my mental health.

I have now decided to challenge myself to do the Great North Run. But, I wanted to do it for an amazing cause. This is where Intractable come into play. 

Intractable has been set up by families who have children who suffered with severe intractable epilepsy.

Each member have a loved one who are benefiting from medicinal cannabis.

They have all had to fundraise to maintain the costs associated with their loved ones privately prescribed cannabis medication.

They all want to help other children in a similar position to our own 

The families have been joined by others who are sympathetic to those that suffer with intractable epilepsy and families continued financial struggles to pay huge prescription costs. 

TOGETHER WE HAVE TAKEN THE FIRST STEPS TO HE LP OTHER FAMILIES!

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