Inspiring people

The Big Push isn't just about raising money, it's also about raising awareness of muscle disease, which means hearing your stories! Over the years we have been involved with so many inspirational people who have talked about both positive and negative events that have occured in their life as a result of having muscle disease. Sharing these stories not only helps others who find themselves in the same situation, but gives an insight to people not familiar with the challenges that having a muscle disease poses.


Inspirational people

Here are the stories of just some of the people who inspire us:

Sophie Hughes

Sophie Hughes, who sold handmade Christmas cards to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign © Hughes Family



Tracy McMahon

Jane and Tracy © MDC




Matin Mohammad-Nabi

Matin Mohammad-Nabi and his mum, Pari © Richard Bailey




Rikin Shah

Rikin with his Child of Courage award © Shah family




We want to hear your story

If you have a story to tell, or something you'd like to share, get in touch! Simply send us an email thebigpush@muscular-dystrophy.org telling us your story and we'll do our best to publish it on the website. [Please note that the Editor reserves the right to edit stories.]