Here's our story and where we need your help!

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Vital Energi have joined forces with Northern Lights Parkinsons Support Group as one of their 'Parky Partners'. Northern Lights offer a tremendous service to their community, enabling people to live with Parkinsons as opposed to just surviving. We hope that our partnership can have a real and lasting impact to the work they offer to their Parkinsons community and here's where we need your help!

Six of us have decided to take on the ultimate charity challenge (a marathon!!), and we need your support to push us through the months of training and preparation we have planned for the big day. We'll be taking on the Lisbon Marathon on the 10th October and whilst it's considered to be one of the most beautiful marathons in the world, we're going to be far from sight seeing when we're staring down the 42.2km coastal route in temperatures north of 20oC! The Lisbon Marathon is a highly competitive entry system and we've been incredibly fortunate to be guided through the process by the team over at RealBuzz who have secured us the places we need. We're a group of mixed ability runners, with marathon first timers, and we've got some tough preparation ahead of us. The team will be:

Kimberley Yong

Iain Murray

Jon Linford

Andy Kenworthy

Tom Winrow

Ben Cooper

What we know will keep us motivated and progressing towards our challenge is the knowledge that all of the hard work is making even more of a difference to the community that is Northern Lights Parkinsons Support Group.

We hope to raise as much money as we possibly can for NLPSG, whilst also raising awareness of the great work they do and how you too could help out as a Parky Partner.

Established by John Roche, James Clark and Keith McIndoe back in 2019 following John's diagnosis of Parkinsons in 2012, Northern Lights seek to provide a support group based on empathy and encouragement of those living with this terrible disease (both people with Parkinsons and their families and carers). The community consists of a wide range of ages and abilities who are brought together through regular support meetings and physical activities. The group has found that through a range of sports and leisure activities, including walking football, crown green bowls and golf, some of their members experience relief from their Parkinsons symptoms and see an overall improvement in their fitness and wellbeing.

Join us is celebrating and supporting the great work John, James and the team are doing for their community. Please dig deep and offer what you can for this incredible charity, push us that little bit closer to our fundraising goals and keep us working hard towards our October marathon challenge!

Thank you so much for your time and support, it really means a lot to us here at Vital Energi and Northern Lights.

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