http://www.cureparkinsons.org.ukLatest content from parkinsons.en-gbhttp://www.cureparkinsons.org.uk/redirect.aspx?module=3&doc=0:38495&tid=rsshttp://www.cureparkinsons.org.uk/redirect.aspx?module=3&doc=0:38495&tid=rssFri, 21 May 2010 15:05:49 GMT Tom Isaacs is Managing Director of Movers & Shakers - Tom is supported by Graeme Thomson and Helen Matthews as co-directors. Tom Isaacs was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the young age of 27 and since 1999 has raised over £400,000 for Parkinson's Disease Society research projects. Having already raised £40,000 completing a 1,250 mile walk from John O’Groats to Lands End, he left his job as a director of a London property company in 2002 to undertake his Coastin’ challenge. Between April 2002 and April 2003, Tom walked 4,500 miles around the coastline of Britain, climbed the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales and ran the Flora London Marathon, raising funds and helping build awareness and understanding of the disease. During that year Tom met representatives from over 90 Parkinson's Disease groups around the coast, gave more than 190 interviews to local and national media and walked with more...