A charity fighting against muscle wasting diseases aims to almost double its income to £15m as part of its 10-year strategy.
Muscular Dystrophy UK recorded an income of £7.9m in the year to March 2025, which declined from £9.5m the year before following the end of a government-funded accessible toilets programme.
Now, the charity has revealed plans to nearly double this by 2035 by exploring a diverse fundraising portfolio and looking into how it can engage new corporate supporters and partnerships.
The charity is also committed to investing more into its own events, namely the Oxford Cambridge 10k runs and Pedal Paddle Peak series, seeking an increase in participants.
Furthermore, it is looking to drive a growth in income within the next decade through new community fundraising and volunteering opportunities in addition to a new legacy proposition.
The charity will also explore new funding opportunities with trusts and foundations as well as other potential funders.
Investment in staff and technology
The increased income will go towards facilitating the charity strategic goals by being invested in new resources such as technology, more staff and volunteers, as well as promoting awareness of muscle-wasting conditions.
While Muscular Dystrophy UK currently has 70 members of staff and over 400 volunteers, it aims to increase this amount, focusing on creating the right structure and capacity to execute its 10-year strategy.
This will all be in hopes of improving both rate and quality of diagnosis as well as ensuring support for those living with muscular dystrophy, or other muscle-wasting conditions and their families.
The charity’s ambition is to “speed up and improve the accuracy of diagnosis so that by 2035, no one will wait longer than six months to be diagnosed”.
Priorities for the first three years of the 10-year plan will include developing a new diagnosis referral service.
Muscular Dystrophy UK’s chief executive, Andy Fletcher, said: “Our vision is clear, a world without limits for people with muscle-wasting conditions, and we won’t stop until we achieve it.”
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