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Mel Evans Foundation

This Foundation was set up in memory of Mel Evans MBE. Mel was diagnosed with MND in 2016, and  sadly passed away in July 2017. As a much loved father, grandfather, partner, friend and bowler who was responsible for bringing Crown Green Bowls back onto TV, we want this Foundation to become a lasting legacy to help those in society who are stricken by MND. The Foundation exists to raise awareness, organise fundraising events and to fund research, which will eventually cure MND. 

We are passionate about raising awareness of Motor Neurone Disease. Everyone involved in our Foundation is united behind a shared passion to cure MND. We are an innovative charity, where every single person is powered by those with MND and those we have lost. A cure is not only a wish, it is an obsession. 

Darby Rimmer Foundation

Former Liverpool, Bradford City and Bolton Wanderers footballer Stephen Darby and close friend and British Forces Veteran Chris Rimmer  partnered together to launch the Darby Rimmer MND Foundation. Fellow MND ‘warriors’. Sadly Chris died in 2022, at the age of 39. 

Stephen and Chris created a Foundation to generate awareness of MND, to fund and assist research into the illness with the quest of finding a cure for the illness, to raise funds and offer grants to those with MND, as well as creating a network to help provide information and emotional support network for those diagnosed with the disease.