Tag: Alzheimers Research UK

Dementia charities join forces for 2019 London Marathon campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Hackney-born actor Ray Winstone is challenging runners inspired by last weekend’s Virgin Money London Marathon to secure their place in next year’s event to help raise over £3.5m for groundbreaking dementia research. The call comes as Virgin Money, the race sponsors, named dementia charities Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK as Charity of the Year for 2019. The two charities will join forces for a year-long campaign, called Dementia Revolution, as Charity of the Year for Virgin Money and the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon. The campaign aims to overthrow…

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Running Down Dementia challenge sets sights high for third year

Stuart Mitchell

Alzheimer’s Research UK has launched its award-winning virtual running campaign for a third year – with plans to attract more runners than ever to power life-changing dementia research. Running Down Dementia challenges participants to run or walk 100km before the end the summer and raise £100 for the UK’s leading dementia research charity. Alzheimer’s Research UK, which is the official charity partner of parkrun UK, first launched Running Down Dementia in 2016. Since then it has raised around £470,000 – enough to enable the charity to fund two major research…

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Legal & General sponsor Alzheimer’s Research UK #ShareTheOrange campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Legal & General support the launch of Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) second #ShareTheOrange campaign which seeks to raise awareness of dementia and the ground breaking research that is being undertaken to help defeat it. Over 850,000 people in the UK are living with dementia and 1 in 3 over the age of 65 will die of the disease. Legal & General has been working with ARUK since 2015 when they helped fund the project ‘Dementia Explained’ which was the development of a website designed to help children and young people…

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Alzheimer’s Research UK announces record year fuelled by 44% growth in donations

Stuart Mitchell

Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, has announced record growth in 2016/17 with a total income of £30.5 million, an increase of 38% on the previous year. Growing public support for the charity’s work saw voluntary donations rise by 44%, 11 times the sector average. This strong performance cements Alzheimer’s Research UK’s position as the country’s fastest growing medical research charity, and allowed it to put a record £24.6m towards its charitable activities in 2016/17, including £7m earmarked for ongoing commitments to the landmark UK Dementia Research…

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University Challenge Star Endorses Mighty Quiz for Alzheimer’s Research UK

Stuart Mitchell

Bobby Seagull, who rose to fame on the 2016/17 series of University Challenge, is calling on people to run their own Mighty Quiz for Alzheimer’s Research UK after his team won in Newmarket last year. Alzheimer’s Research UK Champion Simon Gibson put on the charity quiz last April to help raise funds for dementia research. He decided to ask Bobby Seagull, who was a part of Emmanuel College’s team on the long-running quiz show, if he would take part. To his surprise, Seagull quickly said yes. He brought a team…

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