In just two days, a team of riders will start a gruelling journey: cycling 325 miles, over four days, from London to Champagne. The team, made up of our colleagues and producers, will be headed by our Chair Lizzy Rudd – and is aiming to raise £325,000 for the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation as a result, to help fund vital research into a cure for MND.
We weren’t sure how many people would sign up for a charity cycle from London to Champagne. But when we first put the idea to everyone at Berry Bros. & Rudd, we had so many people volunteer in the first two weeks that we had to stop taking applications.
In our 325 years of history, this is our biggest fundraising effort yet: cycling for four days, covering 325 miles, to raise £325,000 for the fight against MND.
I was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) five years ago.
MND is one of the cruellest diseases you can think of. It’s degenerative, it’s paralysing and it’s terminal. Your muscles waste away and will never build up again, your intact mind is trapped in a failing body. Life expectancy from diagnosis is just two years.
It affects one in 300 people. The number of people living with MND isn’t low because it’s rare – it’s low because life expectancy is so short. Because of that, awareness also isn’t as high as it should be.
There’s currently no cure, but that
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