Over the past 6 months, I have been fundraising for Marie Curie and the Motor Neurone Disease Association. In this time, myself, my friends and my colleagues have managed to raise over £2000 for the two charities. Through selling cakes in our staff kitchen, doing a sponsered Grade-one-athon (or in my case, Grade-three-athon!) and organising a charity concert, we managed to raise this much for two great charities.

Motor Neurone disease is a dreadful illness, which my family has experienced the effects of first hand. The Motor Neurone Disease Association is the only national charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland focused on MND care, research and campaigning. Much more needs to be known about this illness and hopefully, one day, a cure will be found. In the last few years, MND has had more public interest, due to the film, The Theory of Everything and the ALS Bucket challenge. Both helped to raise the profile of the disease, but research still needs to be done to help the patients deal with the day to day struggles and to look for a cure.

All of the fundraising has been done in memory of my mum, Bernadette, who passed away last year, after battling with Motor Neurone Disease.

To celebrate my mum's birthday, I announced that I would be shaving my hair off to raise money for the MND Association. We reached the fundraising goal which I set in under 24 hours, which was such a great achievement. I'm still overwhelmed by the support of my family and friends. The head shave will definitely be happening next Saturday, the 18th March at 4pm, in the shop. Where in the shop depends on how much we raise between now and then! If we reach the £750 target on my Justgiving page, it will be done in our shop window!

My hair is being donated to the Little Princess Trust, who make  wigs for children suffering with an illness which causes hair loss.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/EmilysheadshaveforMNDA

Thanks for reading

Emily