I know, I know, it’s not even Christmas yet.  But we wanted you to have a wee think about something… January is a busy month for us.  And we like it that way, frankly!  It’s busy because lots of you lovely lovely people get to the beginning of January, and sign up for marathons.  And 10ks.  Or decide to organise your own event.  All in the name of fighting MND.… read more »

So, over the past year and a bit we’ve signed up for twitter completely revamped how we use facebook, and started this blog. In terms of keeping in contact with you about what we do and why we do it we think that we’re doing okay, but we’re always trying to improve.  Not everyone uses twitter, or facebook, and not everyone reads the blog.  Google+ hasn’t really released organisational pages… read more »

So, on Monday we told you about how we’d been shortlisted for JustGiving’s “Most Creative Charity” Award 2011… …well… …we’ve been chosen as finalists! *dances around office in over-caffeinated fashion* Yeay! So thank you to everyone who kept their fingers crossed for us…(and please do keep them crossed if at all possible) and thank you to the judges for their decision!  Well done to all the other shortlisted charities and… read more »

If you follow us on twitter (@mndscotland) or like us on facebook you may have already seen this but we’re so damn proud that we thought it was worth repeating here… We’ve been shortlisted for a JustGiving award!   Huzzah! Image from http://www.justgivingawards.com/index.php   The JustGiving awards are a way for JustGiving to “celebrate the amazing achievements of the JustGiving community over the past year. They’re our way of recognising the… read more »

Being the happy little Christmas elves that we are, we’ve saved up all our annual leave and are now away until the beginning of January. In the meantime, how about entering our Christmas Cracker Draw? For every multiple of £2 that you donate, we’ll give you one entry into the draw.  [We wanted to do a pay-what-you-want model, like that which a few bands are using…. but unfortunately the legalities… 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 »

Last week I said that I’d tell you about the piece of film that we had made for the Cornflower Ball, and as I’ve said before I do try to be a woman of my word…. so here we go. For those of you that weren’t at the Cornflower Ball here’s the background – before dinner we have a welcome, and after dinner we usually have a short speech which… 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 »

In which we talk about the C word.

Last week the fundraising department took a trip to Contin, to see the ladies of the WRI.