We did it – thank you!
Thanks to your amazing support, our Double Your Donation campaign smashed its £80,000 target ahead of schedule.
But the journey continues. This Christmas, you can still make a difference.
Why is this important?
More than 110,000 adults and children in the UK live with a muscle wasting and weakening condition.
This can be exhausting, stressful and lonely, with endless medical appointments, physiotherapy, treatments, and respiratory support.
Progressive conditions get worse over time. They can cause difficulty walking, swallowing, breathing complications, pain, heart problems and failure. Life can be more challenging or cut short.
That’s why for over 60 years we’ve been funding groundbreaking research and life-changing support.
Your donation can change the future
We’ve made advances that would have been unthinkable just 10 years ago and with your help we can go even further, faster. We fund groundbreaking research with the aim of finding treatments for all types of muscle wasting and weakening conditions.
In recent years there have been 13 new treatments either available on the NHS or being assessed. While this progress is exciting, there are still over 50 conditions where people don’t have access to a treatment, and still far too many people without access to a diagnosis.
By funding pioneering research, we change the future of people living with muscle wasting and weakening conditions.
Meet Jack’s Family
“I don’t know how we’d have coped without the help of Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK). The early days were a blur of hospital visits, scans and sleepless nights. Our world had been turned upside down and we had no idea what lay ahead.
Yet throughout this uncertain time, MDUK was always there with the answers, advice and reassurance we needed. And over the years, they’ve been a constant source of support – advising us on how to adapt our home, access financial assistance and give Jack as ‘normal’ a life as possible. Thanks to supporters like you, MDUK is helping fund groundbreaking research that could bring about new treatments, improve prognoses and perhaps add years to the lives of young people like Jack.” – Emma Gauder, Jack’s mother