MND Appeal Newsletter: Spring 2022

Latest updates on the Rob Burrow Centre for MND Appeal

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Help us raise the final £500k needed to build the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease

“Although building work has now started on site, we still need the public to get behind us, with half a million pounds left to reach our fundraising target."
Michelle's Story: Convivo

Michelle shares her story and how charity funded technology has given her the best possible chance at life.
Charity funding helps Leeds become the first hospital in the UK to benefit from revolutionary technology for patients with brain tumours

We have invested £150,000 to fund state-of-the-art equipment to more effectively diagnose brain tumours in real-time during an operation.
Hello My Name Is Day 2024

"The #hellomynameis campaign helps provide better compassionate care to patients - not just in Leeds, not just in the UK, but around the world."

Help us raise the final £500k needed to build the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease

“Although building work has now started on site, we still need the public to get behind us, with half a million pounds left to reach our fundraising target."
Michelle's Story: Convivo

Michelle shares her story and how charity funded technology has given her the best possible chance at life.
Charity funding helps Leeds become the first hospital in the UK to benefit from revolutionary technology for patients with brain tumours

We have invested £150,000 to fund state-of-the-art equipment to more effectively diagnose brain tumours in real-time during an operation.
Hello My Name Is Day 2024

"The #hellomynameis campaign helps provide better compassionate care to patients - not just in Leeds, not just in the UK, but around the world."
Rob Burrow Centre for MND Blog: Building from the ground up - the view from on-site

Father and son duo Darren and Harry are managing the build of the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease at Seacroft Hospital in Leeds
Bramley Elderly Action - NHS Charities Together

Leeds Hospitals Charity facilitated £25,000 from NHS Charities Together for Bramley Elderly Action to help support older people in the community.
Ian's 7 Mountains challenge raises over £24,000 for Rob Burrow Centre for MND

On Rob Burrow Day (7th July) MND patient Ian Flatt completed his latest ‘7 Mountains’ fundraising challenge, to help make his hero Rob Burrow’s dream of a specialist MND centre a reality.
Rob Burrow Centre for MND Blog: What the centre means to the MND team

The specialist MND team at Seacroft Hospital tell us what the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease means to them.
Celebrities come together in auction to raise funds for MND centre in Rob Burrow’s name

Prizes have been generously donated by organisations and celebrities including TV’s Lorraine Kelly CBE, Mike Tindall and Dame Kelly Holmes.
Leeds Hospitals Charity campaign highlights need for Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease in Leeds

As part of the campaign, we hear from two MND patients, Rob and Nonly, who are cared for by the clinical team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, who run the current MND service at Seacroft Hospital.