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Thank you to everyone that took the time and appropriate experience in its treatment and
voted for our next 2 year charity partnership. care – usually with referral to neurological
services.
The nominations are in and we can now
confirm that with the majority of the votes, The Motor Neurone Disease Association is the
our next 2 year charity partnership will be biggest charity funder of focused MND
with Motor Neurone Disease Association. A research across the UK - in 2019 £4.1 million
charity that we know is very close to all of our of the money raised by our supporters was
hearts. invested in vital research into the causes of,
and treatments for, motor neurone disease.
What Is Motor Neurone Disease Association
(MNDA) ? If you would like more information about MND
please visit: www.mndassociation.org/
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) affects up to
5,000 adults in the UK at any one time. As
this is not a common disease, general health
and social care professionals may not see
many cases of the illness. This means it is
important to seek out specialists who have
Cheltenham Gold Cup Our next charity event will be our
annual Easter Raffle. There are
A massive thank you to everyone that entered some fantastic prizes to be won!
our Cheltenham Gold Cup Sweepstake for our
newly nominated charity MNDA. We raised an Thanks again to everyone that participated!
astounding £326! AWR Charity Committee
Belfast Virtual Half Marathon once you have completed the
full 13.1 miles distance. You
Due to the success of last year’s Virtual are required to submit your
Marathon Distance Run and the ongoing times to be registered within
restrictions due to COVID-19 this year, the official results before
Belfast City Council are hosting a Virtual Half midnight on Monday 3rd May 2021.
Marathon event in May 2021 and we are
delighted to offer everyone the opportunity To register to take part, please email the
to get involved and raise money for our new Charity Committee –
nominated charity MNDA. ARWCharityCommittee@shs-group.co.uk
before Friday 2nd April.
You are encouraged to jog or run the
distance of 13.1 miles in one session We will cover registration costs and as spaces
between Saturday 1st May – Mon 3rd May are limited if we are oversubscribed, names
2021 (safely and always following will be randomly drawn.
Government Advice on Social Distancing)
submitting your results from Garmin or The final official results will be displayed on
Strava. If you do not have these, you can the official website from mid-May 2021 and
email the Charity Committee with your times all medals and technical t-shirts will be
once you have completed the full 13.1 miles posted to participants before 31st May 2021.
