Our Sales Director, Emma Whitby-Smith will be running in the 2010 London Marathon to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. This worthy cause is close to Emma’s heart, so please show your support by donating money and leaving her comments of encouragement!
“On the 25th April I will be taking on the challenge to run the London Marathon, where I hope to raise funds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
What is Motor Neurone Disease (MND)?
It is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the upper and lower motor neurones. Degeneration of the motor neurones leads to weakness and wasting of muscles, causing increasing loss of mobility in the limbs and difficulties with speech, swallowing and breathing, it is terminal.
The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association is the only national organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland dedicated to the support of people with MND and those who care for them. This fantastic organisations mission is to fund and promote research to bring about an end to MND. Meanwhile, whilst funding and promoting the research they also seek to enable everyone with MND to receive the best care, achieve the highest quality of life possible and die with dignity. The Association funds and promotes research to understand what causes MND, how to diagnose it and most importantly, how to effectively treat it so that it no longer devastates lives. www.mndassocation.org
Tough Training!
As this is my first and probably last Marathon, I wanted to support a charity that was close to my heart, unfortunately my partner’s father has just been diagnosed with MND so it is with him in mind that I have been training in the cold and the wet to achieve my target of running the 26.2miles in sub five hours my aim is to raise £5000 and I would be grateful if you could help me achieve this goal by either making a donation with a credit or debit card by using the justgiving link below or making a donation by cheque and mailing to me, cheques can be made out to the MND Association.
http://www.justgiving.com/emma-whitby-smith
By donating on the website it enables you to leave words of encouragement which is really motivating and the donation goes straight to The Motor Neurone Disease Association which automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK tax payer, so your donation is worth even more, the hardest part is raising the money in these difficult financial times, so thank you for taking the time to read this and for your donation.”
Everyone at Residential Land wishes Emma lots of luck and will be supporting her as much as possible!
