Our Fundraising Champions

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This year saw one of our most successful community fundraisers ever build huge support for MDI. Walk 4 Ollie took place from August 13th to August 18th, 2023. Ollie’s Dad Paddy Hickey walked 200km across Ireland from Castlebar, Co. Mayo to his hometown of Enfield, Co. Meath. Ollie has a muscular dystrophy called Bethlem myopathy, which is a rare condition affecting the skeletal muscles and connective tissue. Walk 4 Ollie set an impressive target of €10,000 but has now raised well over €35,000 thanks to Paddy and the wider Hickey family, as well as significant corporate support from eBay, Ardonagh Community Trust, Arachas and Aviva.  

In partnership with the family, we were thrilled to set up the Ollie Hickey Fund. Funds raised through his event, and any future events under this fund will be ringfenced to be used for independent living programmes and services for young people like Ollie.  

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You can be like the Hickey family and host an event of your own to support our work by filling out the Community Fundraising Form or contact us at foundation@mdi.ie or give us a call at 01-6236414.

A group of five women and a young boy in a wheelchair standing in front of a colorful mosaic mural featuring animals and nature scenes.
Three people posing indoors at a Muscular Dystrophy Ireland event, with a decorated Christmas tree in the background, a table with cups, snacks, and a white device, and a large orange and teal MDI banner.
Two men standing beside a Christmas tree with yellow ribbons in an indoor setting, participating in a charity event with donation buckets and promotional banners.
A boy smiling and holding a flag, standing in front of two people on treadmills with banners displaying eBay and another organization logo inside a mall or shopping center.
A man in a red shirt on a small boat in the ocean under cloudy skies, with sunlight peeking through the clouds.
A man in a neon green running jacket taking a selfie with a group of runners behind him on a wet street, with houses and cars in the background.
A group of runners smiling and waving at the camera with their headlamps on during sunset or sunrise on a rural road with fields and bushes on either side.
Two smiling men with beards and gray hair, one wearing a green and yellow sports jersey and the other a gray shirt, posing in front of a clock and a dartboard.

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