Why are we here?

You may well ask why we have chosen the Muscular Dystrophy Association as our charity of choice. So today we are here to let you know what Muscular Dystrophy is and why we are raising money for them.

What are the muscular dystrophies?

MD takes on many different forms but the way I always explain it to people is that it is a muscle wasting disease. It affects some more than others. If you would like to learn more about the condition you can find a link to the Muscular Dystrophy website in the sidebar on the right. Please go and take a look.

So why did we choose MD to fundraise for? That's an easy question to answer. This charity s very close to our heart and became so about 6 years ago when a very close friend of ours was diagnosed with MD at the age of 26. We decided that we would like to help out and so we find ourselves here, with the aim to raise funds to assist MDA in their research to find a cure and also to help bring a bigger awareness to MD. We hope that with a little help from all of you that we can do that.

Over the next few months we will be asking some friends who are living with MD to tell us their stories so we can share them with you to bring about a greater awareness of how this disease affects those in our community.

I hope this has helped to show you why we are here and how much this cause means to us. If there is anything that you would like to know please leave a comment and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Stay tuned for what exciting things we have planned to help raise money for this great cause.

Welcome to the Newcastle MD Fundraiser Blog

Hello and welcome.

You have found the blog for the Newcastle Muscular Dystrophy Fundraiser.
Here you will find updates on all of our plans and progress for our 2007 creative fundraiser.

This fundraiser, while primarily a scrapbooking event, is open to all people who enjoy being creative, no matter what their craft may be.

We believe that the creative community of scrapbookers, stampers & and crafters in general is a very powerful and generous community and we hope that you will all be willing to share your craft with us to raise money for this worthwhile cause.

Please stop by again and see what we are up to. We are hoping to have some very exciting ideas and news for you in the coming weeks.

cheers
Lauren and Mandy