Many of you will know that we lost my lovely Dad to MND in 2014 and in a cruel twist of fate my Mum was also diagnosed with MND in 2025, dying just 10 weeks after diagnosis. This year we should be celebrating their 70th birthdays with them (and what a party that would have been!) but instead we will be raising a glass and remembering their brave final battles against this terrible disease.

While we can't celebrate with them we do want to do something to honor them so myself and Emma will be running the Rob Burrow Leeds half marathon and our amazing cousin Nikki will be running the FULL marathon in their memory. We would be so grateful for any support you can give to help us contribute to finding a cure for this awful illness in their names. We are hoping to raise £7000 to acknowledge that they should be turning 70 this year and that money could make a huge difference.

Motor neurone disease (MND) is a progressive disease that attacks the motor neurones, or nerves, in the brain and spinal cord. This means messages gradually stop reaching muscles, which leads to weakness and wasting. MND can affect how you walk, talk, eat, drink and breathe and there is currently no treatment or cure, but we want to change that.

We need your help.

£85 could pay for an important chemical to preserve 600 tubes of cells when they are frozen

£280 could pay for a person with MND to download their banked voice

£500 could fund a tablet device, giving the ability to communicate with loved ones

£1000 could pay for detailed analysis of DNA to help us better understand the causes of the disease.

Anything you can give will help us to achieve a world free of MND.