29/08/2026
💙 30 DAYS OF HOPE — DAY 30 💙
HOPE IS REAL. PLEASE HELP FUND IT.
Thirty days ago, we started with one word.
Hope.
Today, on the final day of 30 Days of Hope, we want to start with two more.
THANK YOU.
To everyone who donated — thank you.
Whether it was £5 or £500, you chose to entrust your money to a small charity with a huge ambition. We never take that for granted.
To everyone who shared one of our posts — thank you.
You put MND in front of someone who might otherwise never have thought about it.
To everyone who commented, liked, followed, fundraised, introduced us to somebody, offered an idea, opened a door or simply stopped scrolling for a moment and read one of these posts —
thank you. You became part of this.
For 30 days we’ve tried to show you why we have hope.
We’ve talked about scientists and research.
We’ve introduced you to some of the brilliant people dedicating their careers to understanding MND.
We’ve talked about discoveries, experiments and the possibility of treatments.
We’ve tried to make you smile occasionally.
We’ve tried to make you think.
And sometimes we’ve deliberately tried to make you uncomfortable.
Because MND should make us uncomfortable.
People are still being diagnosed with a devastating disease for which there is no cure.
We refuse to believe that has to be the future.
But there is something important about hope.
HOPE CANNOT DO THIS ON ITS OWN.
Hope needs scientists.
Hope needs laboratories.
Hope needs experiments that work — and experiments that don’t.
Hope needs questions to be asked.
Ideas to be tested.
Young researchers to be given opportunities.
Discoveries to be pursued.
And ultimately, discoveries to become treatments.
All of that requires something very practical.
Funding.
So on Day 30, we’re making one final appeal.
PLEASE MAKE A DONATION.
Not because we want a nice fundraising total at the end of a campaign.
Not because £10 magically cures MND.
But because every pound we can put towards research gives brilliant people more opportunity to search for the answers we desperately need.
Somewhere in the future, another person will sit opposite a doctor and hear:
“You have Motor Neurone Disease.”
Today, there are nowhere near enough answers to the question that follows:
“What can you do about it?”
That’s the conversation we want research to change.
We want doctors to have options.
We want treatments.
We want people to have more time.
And ultimately, we want these words to replace so much of the fear surrounding an MND diagnosis:
“WE CAN TREAT IT.”
That’s why we fund research.
That’s why we fund researchers.
And that’s why your donation matters.
The Mel Evans MND Foundation began because of one man.
Mel.
We can’t change what MND did to Mel.
We can’t change what it has already done to thousands of other families.
BUT TOGETHER, WE CAN HELP CHANGE WHAT IT DOES NEXT.
We’re a small charity.
We know that.
But we’ve never believed you have to be enormous to make a difference.
A small charity can fund a brilliant researcher.
A £10 donation can join another £10, and another, and another.
One introduction can create an extraordinary partnership.
One experiment can lead to another.
One discovery can open an entirely new door.
And thousands of people deciding “I’ll help” can become a very powerful force.
So if you’ve followed these 30 days and thought:
“Somebody needs to do something about MND…”
We have one final request.
BE ONE OF THE SOMEBODIES.
Donate £5.
Donate £10.
Donate £50.
Donate whatever you can comfortably afford.
And if you can’t donate, please don’t think you can’t help.
Share this post.
Tell somebody about us.
Fundraise.
Introduce us to your workplace.
Open a door.
Start a conversation.
Because every one of those things can move us forward.
👉 PLEASE DONATE TO THE MEL EVANS MND FOUNDATION
Tomorrow there won’t be a Day 31 of 30 Days of Hope.
But researchers will still walk into laboratories.
Experiments will still be running.
Families will still be living with MND.
And we’ll still be here.
Fundraising.
Backing research.
Supporting researchers.
Building partnerships.
Opening doors.
Coming up with ideas.
Occasionally making a nuisance of ourselves. 😂
And continuing to believe something very simple:
MND’S FUTURE DOES NOT HAVE TO LOOK LIKE ITS PAST.
One day, we want children to ask:
“What was MND?”
And we want somebody to be able to tell them that it was once a devastating disease.
Until researchers changed that.
That’s the hope.
That’s why these 30 days mattered.
And that’s why Day 30 isn’t really an ending at all.
To every single person who donated, shared, supported, encouraged or joined us along the way:
THANK YOU. 💙
You have been part of something that means an enormous amount to our little Foundation.
Now let’s see where that hope can take us.
HOPE IS REAL. PLEASE HELP FUND IT.
For every family affected by MND.
And for a future without it. 💙
Day 30 of 30 Days of Hope.
Hope is why.
https://melevansfoundation.org.uk/donate/
