Mar 12 2025 35 mins
Today’s guest is Mike Wilson, organizer of March of the Day ll in support of the Darby Rimmer MND Foundation an event that starts on the 21st of March.
Mike tells us how he became a charity event organiser, after years working in financial services. He describes the company he runs with his brother-in-law, Redwood Events Woody and highlights the transferrable skills which help him raise charitable
He explains how his passion for fundraising events started with his “Mad Auntie Ruth”, and how after her death he was conscripted to be the president of the branch of Save the Children where she had previously been the president.
When he and Woody started Redwood events, they were involved in arranging many different types of events for local charities and then worked with larger corporate charities raising funds for charities like BBC Children in Need. They developed an approach of walking from football ground to football ground or from sports ground to sports ground after Mike’s dad organised a charity walk to Oval cricket ground when he was a young boy
Their love of football introduced them to a lot of ex footballers and ex sports stars. This is how he became a friend of ex footballer, Stephen Darby and has been involved with raising funds for the Darby Rimmer charity to support Motor Neurone Disease (MND) from its conception.
We talk about MND, the various stages and how it affects people. Also, how the fundraising money supports awareness raising, provides people with grants to help fund the equipment they may need, and fund novel medical research.
Mike shares some great tips about fundraising for charities and honing what you do to improve it year on year.
To date Mike and Woody have raised ~1.3 million pounds, and they are hoping to have reached a total of £500k for the Darby Rimmer MND Foundation after the March of the Day 2 event..
Listen to hear about some of the footballers involved in this year’s March and find out how you could get involved to support MND.
You can contact Mike at
Darby Rimmer MND Foundation https://darbyrimmermnd.co.uk/
Redwood Events https://www.redwoodevents.co.uk/
Find out more about March of the Day II https://www.redwoodevents.co.uk/march-of-the-day-2025/
You can contact us at the following:
Dr Carol Sargent: https://sargentgroup.consulting/
Dr Tom Adler: https://getbide.com/