See any newspapers on Friday?  We appear to have been in a few of them…  and all because of the Gobi Desert Challenge 2011. You might remember we told you about this back in October of last year – it’s a group of Rangers, Celtic & Motherwell fans trekking 100 miles across the Gobi Desert, led by expedition experts Sandbaggers, to raise money for ourselves & the Davie Cooper Centre… read more »

At MND Scotland we’ve got an amazing supporter base of community fundraisers, who between them raise a very large percentage of our annual income.  We really couldn’t provide the services we do without their commitment and hard work, and for that we really are very grateful.  Those of you out there who organise race nights, bag packs, and collections.  Who jump out of planes, run races and climb mountains.  Thank… read more »

If you’ve been into a branch of the Dunfermline Building Society recently then you may have seen some of our branding, or badges, or leaflets, or tshirts, or some very tired cyclists…. because of something called the D2D Challenge – The Derbyshire to Dunfermline Cycle Challenge, which is taking place in April of this year.  (Next month! How did it get to be March already, seriously…) The staff and customers… read more »

The women of the Perth Branch with our Chief Executive Craig Stockton, at the farewell lunch. After a long and successful history, the women of the Perth Branch, as shown in the above picture decided that it was time to retire the branch.  They’ve worked incredibly hard over the years, so this week we wanted to take a bit of time to say thank you. Set up in 1989 by… read more »

Lots of photos today – and a really interesting fundraising event… We love it when fundraisers are creative.  So when we got an email from Mark “Venus” Williams saying that he and some of his friends wanted to run around every football ground in Scotland, our interest was piqued… Back in July, Mark got in contact and said that he’d like to organise this challenge.  There are 42 premier, first,… read more »

We were honoured to be chosen by Celia Lawson, Provost of Renfrewshire, to be the charity to benefit from the Mistletoe Ball, this year held at the very posh Mar Hall in Bishopton on the 26th November. As nominated charity we took along a group of our supporters and sat quietly and demurely (cough) at our table as the evening proceeded… Hosted by Sean Batty (him aff the telly… I… read more »

It’s the first challenge of our fundraising “ask” that before we can say anything about money, we have to explain exactly (or vaguely) what Motor Neurone Disease is.  Professor Stephen Hawking has, of course, raised the public profile of MND – but as you’re probably aware, he is a somewhat exceptional case.  Anyone fundraising for a rare condition or difficult cause will tell you a similar tale – that you… read more »

I have a bone to pick with Toto.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Toto_song)  Mount Kilimanjaro does not rise like Olympus above the Serengeti.  When you’re at the town closest to the base of Kili, you can’t see it.  It’s shrouded in cloud.   There are, however, a couple of ways you can see it: from the air, on the labels of beer bottles, or of course by climbing it.    Which is exactly what our supporters John Bellshaw… read more »

This week’s post is about Richard Machin & Matthew Neal, who completed an amazing cycle challenge to raise money for MND Scotland.

In which we talk about a woman who’s seriously impressed us with her fundraising efforts.