Walking with dinosaurs for Motor Neurones Disease

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Walking with dinosaurs for Motor Neurones Disease in Lee-on-the-Solent

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00:46 Hi, my name's Graham Lloyd.

00:49 I'm with Tony Russell.

00:50 [INAUDIBLE]

00:55 We're in Leon, the Solon.

00:57 And we're about to walk down the road, out the stope,

01:02 back up through along the military road,

01:05 and then back down, down to the DDS.

01:08 So we're walking eight miles every day,

01:12 right the way through from the 1st of January to the 31st.

01:17 Oh, sorry.

01:17 [INAUDIBLE]

01:22 So the local response has been outstanding.

01:28 I mean, we've raised nearly 4,000 pounds already.

01:30 We're only halfway through the month.

01:32 So we have no idea really where the toad will end up.

01:35 But we've had loads of support locally.

01:38 We've had plenty of people turn up in their own dinosaurs

01:41 to come out and walk with us as well, which has been--

01:43 it's just made it a bit different.

01:46 But we came up with the idea because I

01:49 think there's about 29,000 people walking

01:52 from Otionurine disease pre-January across the country.

01:55 But we just wanted to do something

01:57 a little bit different that would bring

01:59 a smile to people's faces and just try and highlight

02:02 a bit more about what the disease is all about

02:04 and how basically it's a really cruel, horrible disease.

02:09 But there's lots of people trying

02:11 to do good to raise money to try and find

02:13 a cure or a breakthrough for treatment.

02:16 So that's what we're trying to achieve.

02:19 I mean, if we got to 5,000 pounds, that would be--

02:22 I think we'd struggle to raise 500 pounds at the start

02:25 of the month.

02:27 But yeah, we're just very grateful for every penny

02:31 that comes in, really.

02:32 People have been so generous.

02:34 They've been driving around in their cars

02:36 to find us to give us money, which is just staggering.

02:39 So yeah, no, we're very grateful.

02:42 And we're also very grateful to the two big Facebook groups

02:46 that allow us to post each day, which gets coverage for us

02:49 and allows people to find out a little bit more

02:51 about what we're doing.

02:52 So yeah, you know, like the Leon the Solent Matters

02:57 and Fairing Matters and Gospel Aware has been amazing.

03:01 So thank you to them.

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