As you know, our headline charity for 2024 and 2025 has been the Isle of Wight Branch of the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association. We are delighted to confirm our third year of support with a further £10,000 donation and to announce the new fundraising initiative for 2026.

Our support over the last two years principally funded the Freedom Travel and Let’s Make it Happen initiatives and continue to be enabled by your generosity. However, this year we want to focus on how to further enhance the lived experience of all those on the Isle of Wight who are affected by MND.

So, the purpose of this year’s fundraising is to allow those on the Island who are affected by MND to go beyond their immediate surroundings, or to bring friends and family to them, to share special times together. It could also be used to reward a family member or caregiver the chance to take a break.

For example, funds could contribute to a long weekend or trip away, to attend an event, or help in bringing family and friends to the Island for a get together (quietly or with a party atmosphere). It could also provide support for a primary carer to take a trip themselves or be pampered.

Our fundraising certainly doesn’t, and won’t, ignore the practical challenges of living with MND but it does aim to support the wellbeing of everyone affected by this very difficult health journey, and this year to provide the opportunity to make lasting memories together or simply to do something special.

We sincerely hope you will support us once again in raising money for this worthy and necessary charity and particularly this latest initiative: Let’s make some good times.

We are so grateful to all of you for your generous support of the Freedom Travel and Let’s Make it Happen initiatives, and for making them so successful. Please be assured that both have been really well received, making a huge difference to people’s lives, and will continue to be provided.

Our new target this year is £37,500 including the £30,000 we have contributed to date.

Please help us raise as much money as possible towards this target and for Let’s make some good times for the Isle of Wight Branch of the MND Association.

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