Donate this winter and you could help people like Eoin
Around 9 in 10 people with motor neurone disease (MND) will be affected by the weakness in the muscles which help someone to speak. But someone's voice is a big part of their identity. Your help is needed to make sure that when a loved one loses their voice to MND, precious moments aren't lost forever.
Your donations can provide essential funding to help people living with MND communicate in different ways. Everyone's different, so it's really important that each person gets the best solution that's right for them.
Meet Eoin and his family
Eoin was diagnosed with MND in 2020, when his children were just one and three years old. He is now on constant ventilation and can no longer talk. But thanks to people like you, he can still communicate, because he's been able to bank his voice.
To Eoin's wife Jenny, and their children, it doesn't matter that his banked voice is not a perfect natural copy of his voice, it matters that they can still hear Eoin. He can still read stories with his young children, and those memories will stay with them forever. Eoin also recorded messages so he can still tell his children how much they mean to him in his own unique voice.
Hearing the stories read out in Eoin's voice, the children and I sometimes forget that Eoin is living with MND and in that brief moment it is just Daddy reading a bedtime story.
Read Eoin's story
How your donation could help:
£20
could help provide funding for people living with MND to bank their voice.
£50
could help provide communication aids so people with MND can continue to communicate with friends and family.
£100
could help people bank their voice, by ensuring laptops and headset microphones can be loaned out for recording.