# The Oddfellows donate £50,000 to The Stroke Association

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/03/19/oddfellows-donate-50000-stroke-association/
- Published: 2005-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Stroke Association has been awarded a grant of over £50,000 by the Oddfellows
in a two-year partnership that will fund research into communication problems after
stroke.
This is the first that The Stroke Association has received from the Oddfellows,
a non-profit making society that was established in 1810 and has 100,000 members
nationwide. The society’s regional branches focus on providing its members social
networks, care and support, and financial benefits, but its members are also enthusiastic
fundraisers for local and national charities.

The grant has been awarded from the society’s HA Andrews Memorial Fund, which has
donated over £400,000 to medical research since its creation in 1971, and is funding
medical research at the University of Nottingham on behalf of The Stroke Association.

Andrew Porter, Chairman of the Oddfellows, said: “the Oddfellows have a long history
of supporting medical research into a variety of conditions for the benefit of everyone.”

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