Twenty brave souls including Tom and Suzanne from CPT braved the height and cold weather to take part in our sponsored abseiling event in the City of London which has raised nearly £20,000.

A huge thank you to Vivian and Fergus Falk and the team from Central Height Safety.

Click here to see some pictures from the event.

On Saturday 17th April over 200 people joined us at the ICC in Birmingham to help "throw light on Parkinson's." The evening was a great success and we are extremely grateful to Becky Hurd and Trevor Owen, the inspiration behind the Ball. Click here to see some photos of the event. Join us next year on Saturday 9th April 2011 at our next Illuminate Ball. 

Over 240 people attended Our Gala Opera Concert, and were entertained by the best loved arias from 'Carmen' and 'La Traviata' in the beautiful surroundings of Micklefield Hall. The evening was a huge sucess and raised just over £10,000.

For more  photos of the evening please click here

Over 170 guests attended this event at Salter’s Hall on May 21st 2009 and thanks to their generosity, and to those who very kindly donated gifts in auction, the event raised just under £30,000. A specific thank you must go to our organising committee - without their help and dedication this event would not have been such a huge success.

To view some photographs from the evening, click here

The Cure Parkinson's Trust's patron's Paul Nixon and Monty Panesar joined us for this year's tournament. Despite the fact that due to rather a lot of rain not a lot of cricket was played, the cricketers and spectators were entertained by cricketing raconteur, Roger Dakin. What was supposed to be a day of quintessentially English cricket turned out to be a day inspired by a quintessentially English spirit.  

Click here for photo's of the day.

An audience of over 400 people enjoyed an entertaining evening with Tom Isaacs recounting his most amuzing moments on his epic walk around the British coastline.  Hosted by Tony Hawks, the 'Shake Well Before Use' book launch took place at the Royal Geographical Society on the 1st May 2008. Tom Isaacs embarked on a new challenge on World Parkinson's day the 11th April to walk the Leeds - Liverpool Canal arriving in Liverpool and hosting a finale dinner on the 23rd April. To find out more about the walk read Tom's blog

Movers and Shakers with Barry Ryan (photographer) created an exhibition of key movers and shakers in business, a definitive set of images portraying those people who really make things happen. After the launch party at Hamilton's gallery on the 12th September, the exhibition moved to public viewing at the gallery, Oxo Tower.

Click here to view the programme of the exhibition

Click here for the Times article on the exhibition

Sunday 15th July saw professional cricketers, Parkinson’s experts, local businessmen and pupils of Merchant Taylors’ School coming together to enjoy a spectacular day of cricket. Click here for further details

Click here for photos of our tournament in 2007 and 2008

Movers and Shakers were the charity partner for Paul Nixon's benefit year, events included the launch dinner ( picture of Paul with two of the charities co - founders David Jones and Tom Isaacs taken at the dinner), Pro Celebrity Cricket Tournament, Six a Side at Wormsley and a fantastic Christmas Lunch at Lords.

On 14th September Movers & Shakers hosted a small dinner at The Mansion House, at the heart of the City of London.  This wonderful building was the venue for a dinner for 350 in 2004, at which Movers & Shakers helped raise over £150,000 for Parkinson’s research.

At the front of the grid in the race to find a cure for Parkinson’s and other degenerative diseases is Davis Langdon, and its clients. With the highlight being a track day held at the famous Castle Combe Racing Circuit in Wiltshire. For the past four years, Davis Langdon has supported the motor sports initiative “Racing for a Cure” that raises money for the Cure Parkinson’s Trust through racing, various track events and sponsorship campaigns.

See www.racingforacure.co.uk for further details.

The Movers & Shakers challenged the Royal Household Cricket Club on their home turf at Windsor Castle.  The Movers & Shakers XI, was nominally captained by patron Elizabeth Hurley, and avid cricket fans were able to enjoy performances from some of Britain’s best cricketers playing in Britain today such as Geoff Howarth, Graeme Hick, Ashley Cowan, Ed Smith and Nick Knight.