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Lesley CHAMPION
Lesley CHAMPION
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Yep those rumours you heard are true !!
Although I've NEVER done anything like this before, I've decided to set myself a couple of challenges and have taken the plunge and entered the 2013 Melbourne Marathon Festival, whilst at the same time trying to raise much needed funds for a charity - The JMB Foundation. You may have heard of it - but if not, I'm sure you have probably heard of the person it was named after - James Macready-Bryan. He was a youing man with the world at his feet, who through an awful incident in the city several years ago suffered a major traumatic brain injury. Whether caused by accidents (road, bike) falls (for instance from ladders) or assault, traumatic Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is tragic for the victim and devastating for family and friends alike. Sadly, for young victims of ABI, there are virtually no age appropriate residential care facilities available. The JMB Foundation came into being to try to help address this gap in the existing health support networks, and tries to assist development of age appropriate care facilities and programmes. So this October, I’m going to be sweating it out and doing my best to complete the (for me!) challenging10k course through Melbourne and raise awareness - and funds - for this very worthy cause.
I've done my bit training to complete the course, but I need YOUR HELP to meet my target of raising $1000 for JMB Foundation!
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Thank you for your support and helping to make a difference !!
Lesley
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JMB Foundation - The James Macready-Bryan Foundation
The JMB Foundation was established in 2007 to provide support for the rehabilitation of James Macready-Bryan after he incurred life-changing injuries to his brain as a result of a serious assault in October 2006, when he was just 20 years old. James fell, unconscious, hitting his head on the pavement. Unfortunately, when he fell, he also fell through a gap in our social support system, which provides very limited funding for the care and rehabilitation of young acquired brain injury patients.
The Foundation has two main aims: to provide financial support for care and rehabilitation, not only for James, but also for other young sufferers of an acquired brain injury (ABI); and to give a public voice to those young people – who all too often literally cannot speak for themselves – and to their families and carers.
Our fundraising allows us to provide vital financial support for additional services in care facilities, for the provision of better and more appropriate home care, for participation in community activities that are otherwise out of financial reach for many, and for equipment and home modifications that may mean the difference between a young ABI sufferer living in a care facility and being able to live at home. Funds that we provide make a genuine difference to the care, comfort and quality of life for these young men and women.
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