News & Events

19/10/2016

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KD-UK awards its largest ever Research Grant to UCL

By Kate | News

Kennedy’s Disease UK (KD-UK) is a local charity making a big difference. It recently awarded an £80,000 research grant to University College London which hosts one of the leading research...

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17/10/2016

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No Yorkshire hill too high
27th & 28th August 2016

By Kate | News

Over the August Bank Holiday weekend Finn Wood (12 years old) joined his Dad to cycle the 2014 Tour de France route from Leeds to Harrogate; some 127 miles over...

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13/09/2016

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KD-UK attend Rare Disease Day
2 March 2016

By Kate | News

Kate and Karen, KD-UK trustees,  attended the Rare Disease Day presentation at the Houses of Parliament, managing to speak to Ben Howlett MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group,...

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13/09/2016

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Research Grant awarded to UCL
25th June 2016

By Kate | News

Karen Woollam, Kate Hopps and Ian Jones, trustees of Kennedy's Disease UK today awarded a research grant to the KD research team at UCL for £25000. This brings the total...

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13/09/2016

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Inaugural KD-UK Charity Ball and Auction
21 May 2016

By Kate | Events

What an evening! The inaugural KD-UK charity ball and auction is now a date firmly set in the Dorset social calendar. From this glittering event, attended by some of the...

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13/09/2016

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KD-UK runs the London Marathon
23 April 2017

By Kate | Events

KD-UK has secured a place in the The Virgin Money London Marathon taking place on the 23rd April 2017. The Virgin Money London Marathon is the largest annual fundraising event...

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13/09/2016

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Circle Suppers

By Kate | Events

Last summer, after reading in our local newspaper that a neighbour and friend, Frank Hopps, had been diagnosed with Kennedy’s Disease, I thought it would be a really good idea...

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13/09/2016

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Big Swim’s Little Swim
(10 September)

By Kate | Events

Matt Flux, 42 and founder of Formotion Clinics, is quite mad! For the last few years he has organised an annual long distance sea swim challenge with his friends to raise money...

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31/07/2016

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Martinstown Village Barn Dance
(20 August 2016)

By Andy | Events

Kick up yer heels at the Martinstown Village Barn Dance! The Black Sheep are rated as Dorset’s most popular Barn Dance Band. They have been performing in Dorset and beyond...

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03/02/2016

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Charity Dinner and Auction
(21 May 2016)

By Andy | Events

So, not all fundraisers involve pain, endurance and physical challenges, some are pure pleasure! On Saturday 21st May 2016, we are hosting a magical and heart warming Fundraising Dinner and...

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