Today we’re stuffing our spring newsletter into envelopes and posting it to supporters who have asked to be on our mailing list. We have a team of enthusiastic volunteers surrounded by piles of paper in our meeting room.
The name “newsletter” rather undersells what it actually is – a 16 page full colour magazine. You can read it online as a PDF.
As usual, we have news of fundraising and the exploits of some quite amazing people. We always try to balance this with news and information about the progress of research and the nature of the disease we are fighting. This time, two articles stand out for me.
The first is a Q&A with Professor Seth Love of Bristol University, who is also the scientific adviser to our Trustees. We asked Seth to respond to some of the questions we are often asked, and his replies make for fascinating reading.
The other is a more personal story, in which filmmaker James Murray-White tells how he discovered that a friend of his in Jerusalem had developed Alzheimer’s. As always with such accounts, the sense of loss is profound and James’ story cannot be read without sadness.
It might strike some as a strange mixture of material, but it reflects what we do. At one end, the suffering that dementia brings. At the other, the gathering hope that we will beat this terrible disease, expressed in language and concepts that are challenging. In between, the fundraising work of the charity, turning the emotional response to the pain into a real fight back through science.
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