Cure Parkinson’s, the research charity four people living with the condition founded in 2005, holds its gala evening beneath the Natural History Museum’s blue whale.
Cure Parkinson’s, a research charity founded in 2005 by four people living with the condition, holds its gala evening. It takes place in the Natural History Museum’s Hintze Hall in South Kensington on Thursday 18 March 2027.
The founders were Tom Isaacs, Sir Richard Nichols, Air Vice Marshal Michael Dicken and Sir David Jones. They gave the charity one purpose: to fund work that could slow, stop or reverse Parkinson’s, rather than manage its symptoms. Isaacs, its president, died in 2017 at 49.
It has since funded more than 86 research projects at 41 institutions in 12 countries, £25.5 million in all, including 16 clinical trials of its own. Since 2012 its International Linked Clinical Trials committee has chosen which drugs go forward to trial, many of them existing medicines repurposed. That work has drawn more than £100 million of outside funding.
Someone in the United Kingdom is told they have Parkinson’s every 20 minutes. The evening is dinner, conversation and performances from guests still to be announced, beneath the blue whale skeleton the museum named Hope.
The charity’s previous gala, in 2024, raised more than £500,000, with Emeli Sandé, Peter Andre and Leo Sayer performing.