A huge THANK YOU to Stafford Sansome and Leanne Griffiths who ran the Virgin London Marathon for the Lewy Body Society – and to everyone who has supported them to raise awareness of Lewy body dementia. If you’d like to donate, there’s still time……
Leanne Griffiths took on the challenge of this year’s London Marathon to raise funds for The Lewy Body Society. Her Granddad was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia in Spring last year. To donate, please visit Leanne’s JustGiving page. Read more in Leanne’s local paper.
Kate Fellows, whose father has Lewy body dementia, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in January to raise funds for the Lewy Body Society. She says, “With the incredible support of family, friends, people I have barely kept in touch with over the years, and total strangers on the street, I have now managed to raise […]
Carolyn (Caz) Whittle will head from the heights of Derbyshire to the hills of Tuscany to run in the Florence Marathon on 24 November, where she will be raising money to help people affected by Lewy body dementias. You can find out Caz’s reasons for running – and also make a donation – by visiting […]
Families hit by a Lewy Body Dementia can feel they’ve got a mountain to climb as they face the impact of the symptoms, grappling with health and social care arrangements and sometimes holding on by their finger-tips to a sense of normality. Now Andrea and Sean have scaled an iconic peak, Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding […]
Chris Brailsford and his family’s running team is once again running for the Lewy Body Society in the Sheffield Great Yorkshire Run on the 29th September. The team is now 6 strong and spans 3 generations, as his Dad who is 73 is running with them this year. http://www.justgiving.com/teams/lewybody2013
Well done and thank you to Macushla Hughes for completing the Great London Run (14th July 2013) on such a hot day.
On Wednesday 24 July, Ian Deeprose cycled a coastal route of 50 miles from Mount Tryon in Torquay to Start Point lighthouse and back, in memory of his mother, Rosemary Deeprose, who passed away at Mount Tryon Care Home on Boxing Day 2012, following a two year struggle against dementia with Lewy bodies. Two of […]
The family of Gwil Debnam of Ince near Chester have held a Dinner Dance and Auction in his memory, to raise awareness of dementia with Lewy bodies, which he battled for five years, and support the work of the Lewy Body Society. The Dinner Dance took place on Saturday 15th June – to coincide […]
Shelley ran this race in memory of her Gran. Shelley says..” She was an amazing lady, and the best Gran in the world! She started with dementia many years ago and then eventually got diagnosed with dementia with lewy bodies. She ended up in a home and over time the condition got the better of […]
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