Cure Aniridia

Shine the light on Aniridia

 
Press Release
The Fairy Queen Dream Team RideLondon100 2013 PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:39

It's been a while since we posted - sorry to all our followers! Life has been busy but Ella is doing very well and had good news about her eyes recently with pressure being an all time low.

We have a fantastic event coming up in August this year.....The RideLondon100 event has been taken on by The Fairy Queen Dream Team:

Ella's Dad, James plus her godfather Richard Gribbin, Samuel Sweet, Taner Dedezade, Ben Sayles, Jordan Quick, Josef Quick, Simon Freer, Simon Giles and Henri Black  will head up the event and cycle 100 miles to raise money for the 'Project Fairy Queen' Aniridia Research being conducted at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London under Dr Julie Daniels.

Sunday 4 August 2013

Celebrating the legacy for cycling created by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 will start in the new Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, then follow a 100-mile route on closed roads through the capital and into Surrey’s stunning countryside. With leg-testing climbs and a route recently made famous by the world’s best cyclists, it will be a truly spectacular event for all involved.

Shine the Light on Aniridia Research

Professor Julie Daniels has given us this update.....

'The previous funds raised are being used solely to support the salary of Dr Victoria Tovell, a post-doctoral research scientist working with Prof Julie Daniels.  'Project Fairy Queen' is now entering a new phase whereby we are trying to make healthy cells, isolated from normal donor corneas, behave like the diseased cells in Aniridia so that we may study them in the laboratory.  To do this we need to silence the activity of the Pax6 gene and this requires expensive molecular biology laboratory reagents.  If successful, this work will contribute to our understanding of the significance of Pax6 in the support of normal stem cell activity in the cornea and hopefully provide therapeutic targets to maintain stem cell activity for longer in patients with aniridia-related keratopathy (ARK).  One of the fundamental goals of this current research phase is to generate sufficient data with which to apply to the Medical Research Council for a 3 year project grant to support our Aniridia research.'

Aniridia Network UK

£1000 of the funds raised will also be donated to Aniridia Network UK. ANUK have supported us as a family like many others with their tireless and selfless work on behalf of those with Aniridia and families supporting those with Aniridia.

'Aniridia Network UK is a support group and charity for people affected by Aniridia: those who have it plus their family, carers, doctors and educator and other support givers. We want all these people to be hopeful, confident, supported and well informed regarding Aniridia. Since formation in 2000 our entirely unpaid team of trustees and volunteers has consisted mainly of people with Aniridia and their parents. Our funding comes entirely from donations.' www.aniridia.org.uk

If you would like to support this event please visit the Team's Just Giving page.....

www.justgiving.com/aniridia

Thank you!!

 

 
Can Do Martial Arts are Champions for the Campaign... PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:09

'Last Sunday we held our annual Junior Championships in which 80 of our students aged from 5 years to 14 years competed against each other in three categories: Kata, Kumite and Ground Fighting.

It was great to see so many students having a go and showing such lovely spirit, I hope everyone had a good day. A massive thank you to all the instructors / senior grade students who helped out on the day. We managed to raise an impressive £450 for the charity – the Moorfields Eye Hospital, well done and thank you!'

Sensei Virginia Richardson, CDMA

http://www.candomartialarts.co.uk/ - Welcome to Can Do Martial Arts®. The only Karate and Combined Martial Arts Academy in Oxfordshire. Train with the best martial artists available who are fully qualified as well as experienced instructors and competitors. Can Do Martial Arts promotes strong family values including respect, responsibility, self control and discipline as well as goal setting and achievement skills. These values are incorporated into all our classes.

 
Moorfields Eye Charity Press Release.... PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 28 February 2012 12:16

Yes, we did it - thanks to each and every one of YOU!!!!!

Dr Victoria Tovell is now in post at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London with a particular research project underway for Aniridia.

http://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/Getinvolved/MoorfieldsEyeCharity/EyeCharitynews/CRzn

Wonderful news, a long hard year's fundraising, so many amazing generous and kind people the world over.

THANK YOU Team Aniridia, you rock

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-16275724

The Fairy Queen xxxxxxxx

 

 
Scaling the heights - couple take on Ben Nevis challenge PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:08

Rebecca Young and Andrew Tate from Alnwick, contacted us after hearing about the campaign via Duchess Community High School in Alnwick. They asked if they could climb Ben Nevis for Shine the Light on Aniridia to help.....we were SO touched!!

They completed their amazing challenge at the end of August and have been collecting in funds for their feat.

We can't begin to thank them enough for their kindness and generosity - truly they have been amazing.

 

 
Fun and fitness keeps the total rising! PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:07

St Michael and All Angels Church ran a children's fun and fitness day recently with the youth group 'Metal' and raised a huge £125! The event was fantastic with swimming, exercise routines and lots of fun!

The Moore family kindly gave the use of their family pool and garden and the Church ladies provided a wonderful feast of hot food and strawberry cream teas.

Fairy Queen HQ would like to say a huge thank you for all the work the Church have put into raising continually for the campaign and a special thank you to all the young people involved in the fitness event - you are stars!!

 

 
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