Can you Move 4 Mast Cell?
The MCAS community is coming together to take action! Together, we can fight mast cell disease. Plan your event for September 2022, Move 4 Mast Cell and join the fight today!
We are delighted to share this year's big fundraiser, Move 4 Mast Cell.
If it involves moving, then do it while Moving 4 Mast Cell! Have fun, collect some sponsor money and don't forget to take lots of photo's so we can see what you've been up to.
This year we want the MCAS community to come together - get behind Mast Cell Action and raise lots of money to help us support people affected by MCAS...don't forget to ask your friends and family to join in too!
Sign up today to 'Move 4 Mast Cell' - run a marathon, do a skydive, take a coastal walk - or choose your own movement to help us fight MCAS. Get in touch to receive your free MCA t-shirt plus any other support you need to run your event!
MCAS can limit many things in life, but your love gives us all vital hope for a brighter tomorrow. Thank you for being there for our community.
Find out more and sign up here.
How you can help
With your help Mast Cell Action aims to ensure that doctors across the UK have a greater awareness of this debilitating illness and will work to promote the development of more accurate and quicker diagnosis and treatment.
Our wellbeing projects have been created to help support people with MCAS and their families. Sharing ways to help look after your physical and mental health, and self management tools and strategies.
We promise that every penny we raise will go towards achieving our aims.
You can donate directly to Mast Cell Action here.
MCA Supporter Scott Fisher undertook an incredible feat of running 27 marathons in 27 days!
Scott's Wife, Megan, lives with many debilitating symptoms caused by MCAS and Scott feels passionate about raising funds for Mast Cell Action to help support those living with MCAS.
The idea. 'Marathons for MAST Cell originally started when I was making up my wife’s medication for the week. As I put 175 tablets into boxes for a week, I thought. This isn’t good enough; someone needs to do something to help people who are going through this. I started researching challenges and the first one I stumbled across was Eddie Izzards 27 marathons for sports relief. “27 marathons; 27 tablets; we might have something here” I thought.'
Why do I want to support MCA? 'The MCA website and research papers have been pivotal in stopping the medical gaslighting and forcing professionals to listen to us.'
How do I feel about what Megan has been through? 'How does anyone feel when the one that you love becomes critically ill? You just feel thankful to have had what time you have had, the times to come and remain hopeful for a cure or medication that works.'
How do I feel about supporting someone with MCAS? 'Any illness gives you perspective; our lives have changed drastically. It is trying, exhausting, testing… the list goes on but it also makes some things momentous. A date night becomes an occasion not a routine, a cinema trip without a reaction becomes a win and you understand that in life it doesn’t matter where you are; it’s the people that matter and you do what you can. You make them hot water bottles at 2am, you carry them up the stairs when they can’t walk and you certainly don’t give up on them.'
You can see Scott's training programme and marathon journey on Instagram, here.
Check out Scott's Just Giving page and read his and Megan's story, here.
Follow Scott on Instagram or Twitter for updates.
Thank you Scott for supporting Mast Cell Action and helping us to raise vital funds and awareness. Megan and all the team here at Mast Cell Action are very proud of your efforts, especially when you crossed that 27th finish line. We can't thank you enough for all that you've done to help.
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Our very own Helen Bowes daughter, Piper, and her pooch Rolo ran for one hour to raise funds for Mast Cell Action!
Piper’s mum, Helen, has Mast Cell Activation Syndrome so Piper and Rolo decided to raise some funds to support people like her!
Piper has hypermobility and struggles with her leg joints, so this run was a challenge but with Rolos' help she managed to complete it! She helped Mast Cell Action to support those living with MCAS.
"It is honestly amazing what Scott is doing (on top of a taxing job both mentally and physically) I'm so proud of him. I could never have hoped for someone so supportive and willing to push themselves to the brink to raise awareness of such a little understood condition! I couldn't thank or love him any more for what he is doing for me, the MCAS Community and Mast Cell Action" Megan Fisher
Chris, one of our Trustees, on a charity walk
A group of walkers tackle 5k for Mast Cell Action
Founding Trustee Gawain and family joining our annual event
Lily did 5000 bounces on her trampoline!!
Anna and Alfie made 500 cards
The Masons organised a sponsored cycle
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Mast Cell Action relies entirely on the generosity of people like you. Please make a donation now and together we can make a difference for sufferers of MCAS.