Mental Illness

Over the summer I took part in a four week summer program called NCS which is basically a bunch of random people being shoved together into a group and taking part in different team building activities and coming to together to raise money for a charity of the groups choice and making a difference in your local community by helping that charity. Our group did Heartlink, a charity based in Leicester (not local but still helps the people in our area through the charity) that focuses on heart defects in children, in case anyone was wondering. 

During this four week program I became inspired to help out a charity of my choice as well as this. I chose Alzheimers Society. A charity that focuses on dementia and mental illnesses within that spectrum. My family have been very closely affected by Alzheimers as my great grandad suffered with it for the last few years of his life. He died three years ago of a multitude of illnesses and unfortunately forgot a lot of close family members including myself, brother and mum. However, he never forgot my great grandma so I guess that's a plus right?

Afterwards

But anyway I did a Memory Walk on the 20th September this year in which I managed to raise about £250 with my sponsor money and the money I managed to raise through Justgiving.com. The money raised by everyone involved goes towards the care, cure, cause and prevention of dementia. Did you know that 36 million people in the world have Alzheimers right now? A huge percentage of those people - I think it's about 70% - feel unsupported after their diagnosis and that's a big part of what the Alzheimers Society are tyring to do. Get proper care for suffers. 

You get a cool t-shirt

I'm currently looking to do another memory walk at Woolaton Park, Nottingham again next year and if there's anyone who would like to do it just visit the Alzheimers Soceity web page  and search "memory walk" for more details. It's for such a good cause and I would strongly urge anyone to take part whether you are personally affected or not. The dates for this walk hasn't been confirmed but if anyone is interested, I'll let you when I get a notification about it.

Sponsor forms and stuff

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