Fundraising tips

Here are some useful tips and tricks to help you with your fundraising including recipes, a fundraising pack and a sample press release.

Gift Aid

If you would like to make a donation and are a UK taxpayer you can Gift Aid your donation. Gift Aid gives CPT an extra 25p for every £1 you donate! Read more

Social media

Social media is a great way to raise awareness of your fundraising activity or challenge and it is also a powerful tool for raising awareness of The Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Read more

If you are taking on fundraising challenges or organising an event, it’s worth finding out about any local ‘What’s On’ guides and publications (in print/online). Local radio websites sometimes have events calendars which enable you to add yours. Read more

Fundraising Pack

Download our fundraising pack, full of ideas of how to get your fundraising started! Read more

Latest

Raid Local 2021: Ventoux Local

Join us on the 16th May for Raid Local 2021: Ventoux Local. Inspired by the infamous Club des Cinglés challenge to climb Mont Ventoux using 3 different routes in one day, riders will be training, planning and mapping to cover the equivalent distance and vertical ascent of 1, 2 or all 3 of those epic routes, all in one day, all on their local roads.
3P - Post Doc Seminar - 21 January

Join the 3P Seminar on Thursday 21st January (12.00 EST), as Kyla Germain, PhD Candidate in Peter Kim’s lab at The Hospital for Sick Children (University of Toronto), and Tim König, Postdoctoral Researcher in Heidi McBride’s lab at Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University), present their research.
Virtual Bridge Tournament

The Cure Parkinson’s Trust (CPT) supporter Pam Willis will be holding her annual bridge tournament ‘virtually’ on 25 January in support of our pioneering Parkinson’s research and would love you to join her.
Virtual Bridge Tournament

The Cure Parkinson’s Trust (CPT) supporter Pam Willis will be holding her annual bridge tournament ‘virtually’ on 25 January 2021 in support of our pioneering Parkinson’s research and would love you to join her.

Breakthrough in stem cell treatment for Parkinson's

In a major breakthrough for the treatment of Parkinson's, researchers working with laboratory rats show it is possible to make dopamine cells from embryonic stem cells and transplant them into the brain.
Tom Isaacs

We are devastated to announce that Tom Isaacs, President and Co-founder of The Cure Parkinson’s Trust (CPT) died on Wednesday morning (31st May). Tom’s passing was unexpected and swift.
New Evidence Suggests Parkinson's Might Not Start in The Brain

A new study adds to a raft of new evidence which suggests Parkinson's starts in the gut...
Science news

Read the latest Parkinson's science and research news here.
Trials - Repurposed Drugs

Our International Linked Clinical Trials initiative (iLCT) identifies potential new treatments to slow, stop or reverse Parkinson’s disease by 'repurposing' or repositioning drugs that are approved to treat other conditions.
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The NAC Trial - the facts
Our story
Diabetes Drug Potential Disease-Modifying Therapy

The study, published in The Lancet and funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), supported by CPT found that people with Parkinson’s treated with Exenatide for one year performed better in motor tests than those on placebo.
Alpha-synuclein and Parkinson's