By the final days of the West Highland Way, Katie Louise Hewetson had to sit and cry before she could put on her walking boots. “I would sit there for about 20 minutes and cry until my feet went numb,” she said. Katie Louise broke her back in three places in a riding accident shortly […]
When the pilot put the plane into its first dive, Claire Terry experienced something she had never felt before. “I had a real sense of what it must be like to fly,” she said. “I felt so close to Dad all the way up there, just me and him.” Claire was strapped to the top […]
After nearly two months alone at sea, battling some of the harshest conditions on earth, Tom Skinner has crossed the finish line of the World’s Toughest Row, completing an extraordinary solo Atlantic crossing while raising vital funds and awareness for the Lewy Body Society. Tom finished the race in an incredible time of 52 days, […]
This week, Tom Skinner passed the month mark in his solo row across the Atlantic, inspired by his father-in-law Jon, who is living with Lewy body dementia. The financial planning director is taking part in the world’s toughest row, a 3000-mile unsupported race across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, aiming […]
A grandmother is set to leap 4,000 feet from a plane to raise money for the Lewy Body Society. Jennifer Halliwell, 69, from Shevington, Wigan, will take part in a tandem skydive at Cark Airfield, Cumbria, on Sunday, 7 September, in aid of the Lewy Body Society. The semi-retired funeral director with her family firm […]
A WIRRAL PA will be swimming across the Arctic Circle for the Lewy Body Society in honour of her late father who died from the disease. Wendy Cordier, a personal assistant for people with disabilities, who only learned front crawl last summer will swim 2km in the River Torne in July. She said: “I took […]
Football fans have their eyes on a charity goal inspired by one of their own. Supporters of Maltby Main FC are raising money for Lewy Body Society after one of the club’s most faithful servants was diagnosed with the disease. Lewy body dementia is the second most common form of dementia in older people but […]
A DAD is hoping to make his family proud by taking on the World’s Toughest Row to raise £100,000 for those living with Lewy body dementia. At 42, Tom Skinner had never so much as picked up an oar two years ago but is now deep in training for his solo trans-Atlantic crossing at the […]
Are you looking for motivation on the fitness front or a runner who loves the challenge of a big event? Run and raise vital funds for The Lewy Body Society.
A huge thank you and well done to Paul Craven and his sister Cyn who completed their climb of Kilimanjaro on 13 February in memory in Cyn’s husband Patrice who lived with Lewy body dementia. Cyn at the age of 74 made it to base camp and despite gale force winds with a wind chill […]
