The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association South London Group has been set up with the aim of providing people affected by MND in the South London Areas (SW and SE postcodes) with friendly and helpful support. This not only applies to those people living with MND but also to their carers, friends, family and anyone else who might be affected. The Group will also offer support to the Health & Social Care Professionals: speech therapists, occupational therapists, the medical profession etc.
The South London Group is a new organisation run completely by volunteers and we are always eager to hear from anyone who is interested in becoming involved with the charity or who could contribute to our local events.
Motor Neurone Disease is an incurable illness that renders the muscles of the body useless through a process of gradual deterioration. The paralysis of the muscles leads to difficulties in carrying out every day things such as walking, talking and swallowing, that many of us take for granted.
For more information about the disease or the work of the MND Association, please contact the National Office website at: www.mndassociation.org.
URGENT NEWS
During the past few months the MND association has been developing a new awareness raising campaign called Sarah’s Story. Details about the campaign will be featured in the next issue of The News which is scheduled to arrive at Branches and Groups in February.
The campaign is based around a 90-second film featuring Sarah Ezekiel who is living with MND and after whom the campaign has been named. The campaign is hard-hitting and conveys the emotional and physical impact Sarah experienced when she received her diagnosis. This is the first ever UK broadcast advert created to raise awareness of MND.
Heidi Macleod, Director of Care Development, and Donna Cresswell, Director of Communications, have spent the last few weeks showing the film to viewing groups comprising of Branch and Group volunteers, Association Visitors and people affected by MND. The response has on the whole been positive about the film and what we, as an Association, are trying to achieve with it.
We have been informed that our advert will be screened between 30 January to 5 February and 13 February to 19 February. The advert is rated to be shown only with films of certificate 15 or 18.
The cinema showings are thanks to the kind support of Pearl & Dean and the association was keen to take up their offer of free broadcast time at 40 independent cinemas across England and Wales.
Now that we know the film is to be shown publicly, we are doing our best to let people affected by MND know about this, as we would not want people affected by the disease to be taken by surprise if they happen to see it.
More information is available via this link to a word documet- Sarah's Story document
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