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Awareness, Community, Fundraising

Your MND Action Month impact: where does your money go? 

With more than 150 buckets tipped or brews poured during the first three weeks of MND Action Month, we’re so excited to be close to our fundraising target of…

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Awareness, Community, Personal Stories

There’s a Hole in My Bucket — and a story worth sharing

This June, a powerful new documentary arrives in Aotearoa. There’s a Hole in My Bucket, directed by…

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Awareness, Community, Living with MND, Personal Stories

Global MND/ALS Awareness Day: a time to remember, a time to take action

Sunday 21 June is Global MND/ALS Awareness Day. It’s a day that falls on the solstice for…

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Awareness, Community, Fundraising

Halfway through MND Action Month — and what a start

We’re more than halfway through MND Action Month, and already we’re seeing something powerful unfold across Aotearoa….

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Community, Research

Update:  Dr Natalie Gauld, ONZM

The end of June marks the completion of our Research Advisor and Best Practice Advocate, Dr Natalie Gauld’s contract…

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Awareness, Community, Fundraising

Bunnings x MND NZ: Sausage sizzles, ice buckets, and making time count — together

On Saturday 06 June, communities across Aotearoa showed what’s possible when people come together with purpose. As…

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Awareness, Community, Fundraising

Looking for another way to get plugged in to MND Action Month?

Action Month is officially underway, with over 100 people signed up to tip ice buckets and pour…

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Awareness, Community, Living with MND

Cuppa Tea for MND: our July MND Connect Group, with an Action Month twist

Each month, we host an MND Connect Group at the MND NZ national office in Royal Oak…

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Awareness, Community, Fundraising

It starts today: MND Action Month is here

The first of June marks the official start of MND Action Month — and people across Aotearoa…

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Awareness, Community, Events, Fundraising

Cups and buckets overflow with aroha to support MND NZ

In July 2025, the hills of Karaka came alive with the clink of cups raised for a ‘Cuppa Tea for MND’, the squeals of an MND Ice Bucket Challenge, the calls of a bingo master, the quiet plink of teardrops…

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Advocacy, Awareness, Community, Education

Lost in limbo: the long and frustrating road to an MND diagnosis

For many people, motor neurone disease (MND) begins in confusion. Early symptoms are often missed or misunderstood,…

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Awareness, Community, Living with MND, Personal Stories

Seeds of connection: A pumpkin festival, the natural world and life with MND  

Loren Hope (44) is a passionate advocate for te taiao* (the natural world) and the power of…

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