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Impact Report 2024: How your support in 2024 moved us closer to a world free from MND

The MND Association's 2024 Impact Report describes how supporters' funding and campaigning moved the charity closer to a world free from motor neurone disease. Highlights include the Prescribe Life campaign for access to the drug tofersen, a £500,000 commitment to the MND-SMART trial platform (giving almost 900 people access to promising trial drugs), a further £400,000 injected into research grants, the £5 million Research Nurse Network, and Association-funded UNC13A research that led to the launch of a company in 2024 which has attracted over $100 million of investment, alongside community grants and new support services for people living with MND.

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The MND Association is the only national charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland focused on improving access to care, research and campaigning for people living with or affected by motor neurone disease.

Key Metrics

£500,000 committed to the MND-SMART trial platform
Almost 900 people given access to trial drugs via MND-SMART
£5 million invested in the Research Nurse Network

Key Outcomes

  • Prescribe Life campaign win on access to tofersen
  • Additional £400,000 injected into the research grants portfolio
  • Community grants and new support funded for people with MND

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
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Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
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700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
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Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
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22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
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22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
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733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
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1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
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997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
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349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
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£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
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32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022