Mark Sommerville will join other sufferers and campaigners to demand more help, funding and awareness of the rapidly progressive life-limiting disease.
A Dad with motor neurone disease will protest outside Westminster this week to demand more funding to help find a cure.
Mark Sommerville will join other sufferers and campaigners to demand more help, funding and awareness of the rapidly progressive life-limiting disease.
The dad of four, from Uddingston, Lanarkshire, received his MND diagnosis in October 2023 and was told he had 18 months to live.
The 45-year-old has since set up the Mark Sommerville Foundation to fund research but believes the UK and Scottish governments are not doing enough to help fund new treatments.
Mark is now set to take part in the protest in Westminster at Parliament Square on March 4.
Mark said: “Those diagnosed with MND cannot wait
“Motor Neuron Disease devastates lives.
“Not enough is being done. Not enough funding, urgency. Not enough action.”
It comes after Mark and 60 supporters demonstrated outside the Scottish Parliament last month highlighting a lack of awareness of the rapidly progressive life-limiting disease.
Mark was praised by PM Keir Starmer in Westminster in 2024 for his fundraising and told: “We stand with you in this fight.”
However more than a year on, he believes the UK Government is also not doing enough to fund research into treatments.
Starmer recognised Mark’s work and that of rugby league star Kevin Sinfield, who has raised a million for sufferers of MND, which took his best friend Rob Burrow’s life in June, aged 41.
It also took Scotland rugby legend Doddie Weir in 2022, aged 52.