Frankie and Mark’s daughter Sofia was born with CMN. They have been active members of Caring Matters Now, with Frankie fulfilling the role of Support contact for our North West Region and the whole family have been getting stuck in to both raising awareness and raising funds. Last year their whole street came together to…
We would like to say a huge thank you to those who took part in Stepping Up for CMN back in 2021. See below to find out what they had to say about why they decided to take part. Frankie Melia & Family Cycled 30 miles a month “It was great to set a physical…
What made you want to feature in the Comic Relief Red Nose Day campaign? As a Caring Matters Now Young Ambassador, I want to raise awareness of CMN as well as strive to increase the the number of individuals with a visible difference in the media. Two years ago I joined Zebedee Talent, the world’s…
Despite 2021 being another difficult year of lockdowns and restrictions, we have been blown away by the fundraising efforts of so many!
At the end of 2021, Jessica’s husband Peter and their two children, Pascale & Jasper, chose a winner and a runner up to receive the 2021 Jessica Ma Award.
We are delighted to announce that our Young Ambassador Elspeth has now completed Level 1 of our Young Ambassadors Programme!
At the start of 2021 we were all living in lockdown, with very little knowledge of what the next 12 months would hold. For the first half of the year, we continued to be impacted by the pandemic with the ongoing cancellation of all our face-to-face support events and fundraising events. During this time, we…
In 2022, as we celebrate our 25th year of Caring Matters Now, we would love to see as many people as possible helping us to raise the essential funds that we need to be able to continue to provide support to families affected by CMN for another 25 years, and more. Could you join us in STEPPING UP FOR CMN by taking on a ’25’ Challenge?
Following the huge success of our HOW DO YOU C ME NOW? photographic exhibition in 2019 and the release of our HOW DO YOU C ME NOW? photographic book in 2020, this year we are continuing to build upon the momentum of raising global awareness of CMN by launching our first HOW DO YOU C ME NOW? professional film, featuring the life story of an adult member living with CMN, Cheryl Shaw.
After a challenging couple of years, with large events being cancelled and postponed, we were so excited to finally see the London Marathon going ahead, and on 3rd October 2021, we had 13 people take part in the London Marathon & Virtual London Marathon in support of Caring Matters Now.
“My wonderful sister Rachel has done so much fundraising for Caring Matters Now. She’s ran the Belfast Marathan, the London marathon, she’s jumped out of the sky… she’s much more brave than me! Where she has run two whole marathons, I have ran a leg! Whenever the London to Paris cycle was announced as a…
