LX Charity of the Year 2025/26

Each year the LX Committee nominates a charity to support with funds raised at LX events around the country. This year’s charity is again Alzheimer’s Society. The Society comprises people with dementia, carers, trusted experts, campaigners, researchers and clinicians. The Society is the UK’s largest collective force of people with unparalleled knowledge and over 40 years of experience addressing the biggest challenges facing people living with dementia.

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Playing Grand Master’s Hockey at our age, that is 60 years and above, we know that we are more vulnerable to conditions that are increasingly common in our ‘senior’ population. One of these is dementia, a word that describes a set of symptoms that over time can affect memory, problem-solving, language and behaviour.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. There are currently around 900,000 people in the UK living with dementia in all it guises, and it is found in both the young and the old. It mainly affects people over the age of 65 age, with 1 in 14 people aged over 65 having dementia, rising to 1 in 6 for people aged over 80. Sadly, we probably all know someone who has suffered, or is suffering, from this progressively debilitating condition – either family, friends, or hockey colleagues.

This year LX Club is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a major International Festival at the Nottingham Hockey Centre, from the 29th of June to the 6th of July, involving over 50 teams and 800 players and tournament officials from around the world. Come along and watch the hockey and support the teams and Alzheimer’s Society.

Please donate to this worthy and all too relevant cause so that we can help fund support for those suffering from dementia.

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