May 2012 Windsor Walk

On Sunday 13th May, patients, families, friends took part in the Windsor Great Park Walk.

For the AAT – this was the 6^th consecutive year – and for MDS UK – it was the second time.

We all had a fantastic day, with well over 100 people attending – walking or supporting the walkers and joining in the picnic afterwards.

There were options for a 6km, 10km and 16km walk.

The AAT (Aplastic Anaemia Trust) organised the day (brilliantly) – with signs, assistance, water stops, safety marshals, etc.  We thank Anna Martin and her team for all this hard work.  The registration donation of £5 went to the AAT to cover the costs of the organisation.

All of the MDS UK walkers and supporters then did an absolutely amazing job of getting sponsored to fundraise for MDSUK. The funds raised will be used to sustain the work and services offered by MDSUK.

Donation pages were open until the end of May. We went far beyond our target sum - which is fantastic.

The final total raised is: £6,067.65

Collected by 4 main fundraising teams:

• Gwyneth and Andrew Brown-Lowe - £1,780 with loads of donations from Gwyneth's school pupils!! Thank you to all families
• Karen Lynch £843.75
• Team Sheath: Sue, Colin, David and Kate £408.75
• Team MDS £3,035.25 which includes lots of various donations on-line and off-line

We thank everyone involved, walkers, supporters and all the very generous donors.

What will such a sum cover ?

To give you an idea of how valuable these funds are - with £6,067.65 we can :

• print and distribute our newsletter to hospital waiting rooms and to those patients who do not have internet access
• OR cover the costs of one of our annual patient information days – which are crucial to newly diagnosed patients
• OR use the funds towards our research project “Assessment for Support in MDS” Project – which will span the next 3 years.  So these funds represent a very healthy contribution towards the costs of year 2.

So thank you very much again.

We would also like to post as many as possible of your photos on our website – please send them in to mds-uk@mds-foundation.org and we will upload them.  You can also add them to our MDS Facebook page.

 Windsor Walk 2012