3 February 2025 Association News
The MND Association has been announced as a finalist in the Smee & Ford Legacy Giving Awards in recognition of the high quality of its legacy events.
The Association’s legacy team has been shortlisted in the Legacy Fundraising Event 2025 category, impressing judges with its programme of four annual events, which demonstrate clearly the difference leaving a gift in your Will can make in the fight against motor neurone disease (MND).
Through the events, which take place in person and online, supporters are given unique, behind the scenes access to researchers at the cutting edge of MND research and shown how leaving a gift to the Association in their Will could accelerate the Association’s vision of achieving a world free from MND.
“We are delighted to have been shortlisted for this prestigious award which is testament to the hard work and dedication of the whole team when it comes to organising these important events. It is also important recognition for all those who attend our events and have chosen to support us in this way.
“Around a third of the Association’s annual income comes from legacy giving and these generous gifts allow us to do so much more to accelerate research into this devastating disease.
“The significance of these gifts is never underestimated by any of us. While we understand they come to us following the death of someone close, we hope those left behind draw immense comfort from the fact that such a selfless act really does give us the greatest hope for a world free from MND for the generations to come.”
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London in April.