Posted on
20th April 2020
InHeadline news
Motor Neurone Disease research boosted by Rugby Legend’s charity The charity established by rugby legend Doddie Weir has made two substantial donations to help fund groundbreaking research into a cure for Motor Neurone Disease. The most recent contribution to medical research charity Funding Neuro, from the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation amounts to £165,000. […]
Posted on
23rd March 2020
InHeadline news
Coronavirus (Covid-19) The situation is a worrying one for all at the moment, but even more so for people who have underlying health problems, including neurological conditions. The links below provide support and guidance related to Covid-19, for specific neurological diseases. I would like to thank our donors and volunteers that have allowed us to […]
Posted on
27th January 2020
InFundraising
Anima Mundi Charity Print Donation To Funding Neuro In Memory Of Little Daisy Brooks And Ethan Cass We are proud to announce that the Anima Mundi art gallery have made a wonderful donation of nearly £3000, raised so far for Funding Neuro from this years Winter Print Edition. The donation has been made in loving […]
Posted on
19th November 2019
InHeadline news
Grierson Award Winning Documentary The BBC Parkinson’s Drug Trial: A Miracle Cure has won the 2019 Grierson Award for Best Science Documentary. The Parkinson’s’ Disease programme follows a group of volunteers with Parkinson’s’ disease. As they take part in a groundbreaking medical trial testing a drug called GDNF. Showing the ups and downs of a […]
Posted on
10th February 2020
InFundraising
Support our super fundraisers. Help find cures for neurological conditions! Always impressed with the lengths our fundraisers are willing to go. We support them to have the greatest success taking on their challenges! Help support our amazing fundraisers! Together we can give hope to those who need it. John Brooks runs for […]
Posted on
4th July 2019
InFN Events
An amazing day for The New Homes Group challenge! The New Homes Group took on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on Saturday 28th September 2019. They were hoping to involve as many teams as possible to scale the peaks of Whernside (736 m or 2,415 ft), Ingleborough (723 m or 2,372 ft) and Pen-y-ghent (694 m or 2,277 ft). To raise as much as they could […]
Posted on
29th October 2019
InFundraising
Raise a Million for GDNF Funding Neuro are proud of our supporters. No more so than Darren Calder one of the incredibly brave volunteers that took part in the Parkinson’s GDNF study. Darren has now set up a dedicated website for people to follow the progress of his fundraising. Keep up to date with Darren […]
Posted on
6th March 2019
InFundraising
Well Done Annette! Annette’s amazing challenge has inspired so many supporters! Last year saw a special birthday for one of our Funding Neuro supporters. Annette Flaherty was turning 50 and decided to make this memorable birthday even more so. By taking on a quite a challenge…by running 50 miles per week for 50 weeks! Yes… […]
Posted on
28th February 2019
InFundraising
What’s next? GDNF is the only therapy which has been shown to restore the function of dying dopamine neurons in the brain of people living with Parkinson’s disease and with this there is reversal of symptoms. With the release of the GDNF trial results (Results summary) it prompts the question…Whats Next? The next and definitive […]
Posted on
27th February 2019
InGeneral
Pioneering trial for Parkinson’s Disease… GDNF the results are out! The results have been published for this ground-breaking trial, aimed to investigate whether boosting the levels of a naturally-occurring protein, Glial Cell Line Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF), can regenerate dying neurons in the brain and reverse the condition. This has never been achieved previously. The […]
