Researchers at the University of Aberdeen are to benefit from £50,000 raised at a charity dinner held in memory of Alzheimer’s sufferers.
The Funny Memories dinner was organised on behalf of the Lord Provost’s Charitable Trust by Charles Bain, whose late father Charlie and father-in-law Roy both had Alzheimer’s disease. This was the second dinner organised by Charles, who previously raised £19,000 for an activity bus.
Over 300 people attended the dinner at Aberdeen’s Mercure Ardoe House Hotel on Saturday 24-3-12, which raised £33,500 for a high-tech piece of kit that will aid imaging helping to detect early signs of dementia.
Main sponsor Apache North Sea, the oil and gas exploration and production company operating in the Forties and Beryl Fields, then generously topped up the fund by £16,500, taking the total raised to £50,000.
Charles, who is director of C EURO Communications Ltd, said: “I was absolutely blown away by the success of the dinner, and by the generosity of Apache North Sea for their extra donation which took the total to £50,000.
My goal was to raise more than £25,000 towards an analytical unit called a Mass Spectrometer, so to raise double that is amazing. The equipment will be instrumental in identifying the early stages of dementia and be the vehicle for many people to get early treatment, minimising the emotional and financial challenges this brings to families, friends and health organisations.
