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Running for Young Epilepsy

Stuart Radmall a Student Support Worker at Young Epilepsy has completed the Lingfield Marathon; a gruelling six mile run in very wet conditions and has raised over £300 for Young Epilepsy. Stuart is also joining our Young Epilepsy team and taking part in the British 10K in July. The British 10K sees 25,000 runners race past some of the worlds most iconic landmarks, if you would like to join our team please contact the Fundraising team on 01342 831245 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Brighton Marathon

The Brighton Marathon 2012 was a fantastic event which saw 10 individuals running in aid of Young Epilepsy. All of our runners completed the arduous 26 miles within five hours which is a great achievement. Huge thank you to all our runners for their commitment and dedication and for all their hard work fundraising, together they have raised over £7,000! Well done Team!
Team Young Epilepsy consisted of: Oliver White, Annie Thomas, Annette Maynard, Zoe Greenfield, Paul Sweeden, Matt Day, James Dick, Stephen Lofthouse and Amy Gypps.
Special Gala Concert in aid of Young Epilepsy raises over £80,000

Thank you from everyone at Young Epilepsy

The students and staff at Young Epilepsy have recorded this special video to say a big thank you to everyone who supported us by attending the special Glyndebourne Gala Concert.

Over 1,200 guests attended a special one-off Gala Concert in aid of Young Epilepsy at Glyndebourne on Sunday, 29 April - raising an outstanding £80,000.
The exclusive event was hosted by Joanna Lumley OBE and Timothy West CBE, and included performances from some of the top international opera and stage stars including Jean Rigby, Dame Felicity Lott and David Pickard.
Everyone at Young Epilepsy is incredibly grateful for the support of all those involved in the event. The money raised will help make a difference to the lives of the 112,000 young people aged 25 and under living with epilepsy, in the UK.
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London Marathon

The Virgin London Marathon 2012 was a fantastic event which saw 13 individuals running in aid of Young Epilepsy. The atmosphere was electric and we are pleased to announce that all our runners finished in their respective times. A huge thank you must go to all our runners for all their hard work, determination and support. Here at Young Epilepsy we are all extremely proud of our runners and can't thank them enough! Well done Team Young Epilepsy!
Team Young Epilepsy consisted of; Russell Weaver, David Hobbs, Tim Ashley, Derek Glanvill, Richard Garland, James Cullen, Charlie Holmes, Done Damjanowski, Fiona Thompson, Pippa Atkinson, Justin Lee, Scott Bacon and Graham Taylor.

Dancing your way to a fortune

Young Epilepsy recently hosted two Zumba parties in East Grinstead and Hatfield to help raise funds and awareness for the charity’s flagship My Purple Pledge fundraising campaign.

Almost 200 people took part and danced away for over 3 hours all in the name of Young Epilepsy. They were fantastic events, and a good time was had by all. Everyone at Young Epilepsy would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who took part. Funds are still coming with the event looking set to raise a staggering £9,000!

There are two more Zumba’s taking place on the 27 May, with participants dancing along in both in Birmingham and Bexleyheath, for more information go to www.mypurplepledge.com/zumba, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or tel: 01342 831 245.

Zumba Party To join, entrants simply need to submit a £15 registration fee and raise a sponsorship of at least £50, all the money raised goes towards Young Epilepsy which is the UK’s only national charity dedicated to children and young people with epilepsy and other associated neurological conditions.

Sainsbury’s Central Retail Division held a Fundraising Dinner for Young Epilepsy

On 28 February 2012, the Facilities Management team at Sainsbury’s Central Retail Division put on a fantastic fundraising event as part of the Charity of the Year partnership with Young Epilepsy. Members of the team invited company suppliers to a very special dinner and auction. The whole of the evening was prepared and executed by the facilities management team, who devised the menu, took over the professional kitchen in chef whites, organised fantastic auction prizes, compared the auction, raffle and entertainment whilst other hard-working team members waited on the tables of guests.

On the night, the team aimed to raise £5,000, however, thanks to the tremendous generosity of their guests and the wonderful auction prizes that were donated which included a helicopter ride around London and hospitality tickets to the Cheltenham Gold Cup, they smashed this target and raised £12,360 in total. This is an incredible result as it means they have also beaten the COTY target of £10,000 in just one evening!

Our thanks go out to the Facilities Management Team, Sainsbury’s Central Retail Division and their guests.
Young Epilepsy is Sainsbury’s Charity of the Year

Young Epilepsy is delighted to have been chosen by Sainsbury’s Central Retail Division in Holborn, London, as its Charity of the Year! The partnership kicked off with teams from the division visiting Young Epilepsy to learn more about the organisation and volunteer their time. Teams got involved with gardening, decorating and evening helping get our main hall ready for Christmas! The partnership aims to raise £10,000 for Young Epilepsy over the course of the year and the teams have been getting involved in lots of exciting fundraising initiatives to hit that target, including manning a sweet shop at head office, getting down on their hands and knees for an afternoon of shoe shining (pictured) and planning a suppliers dinner in aid of Young Epilepsy early in 2012.