A Northamptonshire family is to take a tough outdoor challenge to fundraise for Muscular Dystrophy UK, in memory of a friend who lived with a muscle-wasting condition
The team who call themselves The Three Generations will do Pedal Paddle Peak in Richard Reid’s memory.
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Four miles every four hours for forty-eight hour – a unique challenge for chartered surveyor
Harry Foster, 35, from London, is on the committee for MDUK’s flagship fundraiser The Microscope Ball, which raises hundreds of thousands of pounds for the charity every year.
Man to take on 260-mile fundraising cycle after best friend’s son diagnosis
The news last November that four-year-old Henry Robson had been diagnosed with Becker muscular dystrophy hit Paul Murphy very hard: Henry is the son of his childhood friend Keith.
Raising money in memory of a fabulous friend
Over 100 people lined the street outside Kidderminster College to say goodbye to an incredibly popular lecturer.
Two University College London research scientists are cycling 1,000km to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy UK
The two researchers’ work is to find treatments for a muscle-wasting condition and they want to help people in the MDUK community who have had a tough time during the pandemic.
A former campaigner for Trailblazers – the network founded by Muscular Dystrophy UK, has won a prestigious London Evening Standard award and joined a new generation of West End stars
Jamie Hale was one of the successful recipients for this year’s Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund awards.
‘Explore the world’ with the Henry Robson explorer kit
Four-year-old Henry Robson was diagnosed with Becker muscular dystrophy in November 2020.
It’s ‘All Aboard’ for a visually impaired man who is to travel from Crewe to London using his free bus pass to fundraise for Muscular Dystrophy UK
The bus adventure will take three days and about 15 buses. Ben Ridsdale, 44, is a hospital radio DJ at Leighton Hospital in Crewe.
A woman with cerebral palsy and epilepsy is fundraising for MDUK in memory of her best friend, who died soon after their joint 21st birthday party
Amy, 27, uses a wheelchair and is doing a self-organised triathlon. She is fundraising for her best friend Jack, also from Gloucester, who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
A South Ayrshire woman with muscular dystrophy has written her first novel about a vampire who uses a wheelchair, which challenges ideas of what it means to be disabled
‘Girl of Ashes’ is a fast-paced novel, which sees Elise, an 18-year-old assassin, being blackmailed by a corrupt religious cult, in a story filled with dark humour and
Polmont school supports Muscular Dystrophy UK by going bright for the fight
Teachers and pupils at St Margaret’s Primary School in Polmont dressed in their brightest clothes to go to school or learn from home.