Category: Awareness

Rotary clubs local to us in West Yorkshire have long been fabulous supporters of our cause, inviting co-founder and chair Christine Beal to their meetings as a speaker, where she explains the facts about mitochondrial disease, as well as the importance of mitochondrial research for everybody’s well-being.

Christine is open to travelling (reasonably far!) to give talks on mito to any Rotary clubs, ladies’ groups, organisations or businesses- an offer open to anybody who has an audience! Just get in touch.

As the result of one of these talks, we are delighted to announce that Brighouse-based Emma’s Mito Mission have partnered with Brighouse Rotary, as their charity of the year! This means that the majority of funds raised by their group this Rotary year (from July 2024 to June 2025) will go towards our vital cause.

The Rotary have a variety of promising ideas in the works for the rest of the year, including a Quiz night in early 2025. We are so excited to be working with Brighouse Rotary to raise awareness in our local community, and funds for support & research.

We have also been invited to host a stand at their District Conference in October, where we will be able to raise awareness and garner support for our cause. We will be joined there by Eddie’s Mito Mission, who have links with Rotary!

Why not get in touch with your local Rotary club or similar organisations and ask if they’ll support our cause? There are so many ways they could help, and if you’d like any guidance on liaising with them, or ideas, or just for a chat, just give us a ring on 0300 102 1112, or write us an email at contact@mymitomission.uk.

Look out for updates throughout the year on our partnership!

Thank you to all at Brighouse Rotary, and especially to Simon, Tony & David for their support.

Our missions have been out and about doing some summer fundraising and vital awareness raising!

Eddie’s Mito Mission held an awareness stall at Shepley First School, Huddersfield with welly wanging and a tombola, and Lucas’s Mito Mission held an awareness stall at Middleton Market in Leeds with a tombola too.

Emily’s Mito Mission had their annual fishing competition and raised lots of awareness and a huge £1057! A huge thank you to Waterfront Fisheries and Colin Pang for facilitating the event, and their ongoing support.

Lillia’s Mito Mission held a charity football match and community fun day in Sheffield with 28 local men taking part. A whopping total of £1836 was raised on the day!

Emma’s Mito Mission held awareness and fundraising stalls at Brodstock Festival and Brighouse Gala with welly wanging and a teddy tombola.  They also joined the Brighouse Gala parade and made it to the front page of The Brighouse Echo sporting their bright green mito merch! 

And last but not least, Aiman’s Mito Mission held an awareness and fundraising stall at Broadway Shopping Centre, Bradford with help from Rotary Club of Adventurers, Rotary Bradford West and Rotary Community Corps. They had face painting, crafts, henna, origami and a tombola.

A massive well done to all involved.  If you would like to host a stall or event for a mission or the charity as a whole, get in touch and we can provide you with support gear.

At our recent My Mito Meet Up we set a challenge for attendees to design a notelet to reflect and promote our charity. And wow, did they come up with some wonderful ideas!

As tricky as it was to choose our winners, we finally settled on the 2 stunning designs which will now be featured in our shop.

The first is our logo’s energy bolt drawn by Isabella aged 7, whose dad Eddie leads Eddie’s Mito Mission in Huddersfield. The second is a montage of mito related images created by Mark, Paige’s dad from Paige’s Mito Mission in Belfast.

Congratulations to all our entrants and especially to Isabella and Mark!