Fundraising in memory

Take on a fundraising challenge event in-memory of your loved one – find a fundraising event on our website.

Join our annual DinoDay family event, where children across the country take on exciting challenges in the month of June. The inspiration behind the DinoDay Challenge is Cameron Mathieson. Cameron had both Cystic Fibrosis and Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy and sadly passed away when he was five years old after spending over two years in hospital.

At that time, children who spent over 12 weeks in hospital lost their Disability Living Allowance. Here at Contact, we supported the Mathieson family’s legal challenge to this unfair rule. With our support the family won their case at the Supreme Court, and since then, no other family with a child who spends long periods in hospital has been denied this essential financial support. Cameron, who was born on 19 June, loved dinosaurs – or as he called them, Dowsers. His favourite Dowser was Troy, a green triceratops!

Donations raised help us campaign to tackle the inequalities that families with disabled children face, like we did for Cameron Mathieson’s family and thousands of others since.

Find our more here the DinoDay Challenge.