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Meet Alison 

Alison worked as a nurse in neurology and as a health visitor. In 2018, she started to experience stiffness that made it hard to brush her teeth and eventually developed a tremor. 

"It took me about 3 months for me to get diagnosed. I remember the consultant gave me some leaflets, but I just threw them in the bin because I didn't want to know at that point." 

Alison accessed the First Steps programme, run by Parkinson's UK. 

"I was able to join the Parkinson's UK First Steps programme and I found it really helpful after my diagnosis. My advice to someone who has just been diagnosed would be to go to First Steps and fit Parkinson's around your life, not the other way around!"

Alison has retired and started her own business since her diagnosis and has become involved in different areas of the Parkinson's community. 

"It would mean a lot to me if there were better treatments and a cure for Parkinson's. The uncertainty of living with Parkinson's is hard. But you don't know what is going to happen, and the hope that new treatments offer means everything."

Your donations make a difference

Last year, over 19,000 people called the Parkinson's UK Helpline. And thanks to your generosity, we were able to provide advice to people like Alison to live well with Parkinson's, while our amazing researchers continue to search for a cure.

• £22 could fund a researcher for an hour to prepare samples of brain tissue that can be analysed to find clues to what causes Parkinson’s.
• £50 could help identify which proteins alpha-synuclein interacts with by funding the use of a machine for an hour.
• £75 could fund places for 5 health and care professionals to our introductory online education courses, meaning they can offer better support to people with Parkinson's

Your gift will mean we can continue to be there for every step of Alison's Parkinson's journey. Help us be there for everyone's Parkinson's journey. 

We can’t do it without you. Will you give a gift today?

Help us reach more people with Parkinson's 

Your donations can make an even bigger difference with a monthly gift. Setting up a monthly gift means we can plan ahead and invest in long-term projects. It will ensure our support services keep running. 

Set up and manage your regular gift and find out more about what we'll achieve.

Gifts in Wills

Are you an Executor of someone’s estate? We are very grateful to you for all the work you are doing, to help fulfil the wishes of our supporters.

Please contact our Legacies team on 020 7963 9393 or by emailing legacies@parkinsons.org.uk so that we can provide you with the charity’s payment details and formal receipt for your records.