At Alzheimer’s Society we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.

We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today, and providing hope for the future.

As a family we lost our mum Marjorie Pickup to vascular dementia.

A horrible metal and physically debilitating disease that effects the sufferer, friends and family.

Mum was a strong, caring person, not just to her immediate family but also to people with-in her community.

During her career in the caring services she looked after and helped many who themselves were suffering from Alzheimer's.

The hardest thing about this disease is watching a person (our mum) change over a relatively short period from the strong independent person she had always been to someone, who struggled to do simple day to day activities and who became more and more frustrated with herself and indeed those around her.

As the population ages more people are not only suffering from forms of dementia, more and more people are being affected by this suffering.

My chosen charity as the 2025/26 captain of Normanton Golf Club is the Alzheimer's society and on behalf of my mum (Marjorie Pickup), my family and everybody affected by dementia, I want to raise as much cash as possible to help those helping people with dementia and also to raise cash, so that in the not too distant future, no one has to watch a loved one disappear, not suddenly but gradually until all you are enduring/experiencing is a living corpse.