Following the death of Mr Evison’s father from pancreatic cancer last year, he will be splitting proceeds from his challenge between Parkinsons UK and Cancer Research UK.<\/p>\n
“Turning 40 made me stop and think about what I really wanted,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The answer was to see the world and what better way to do that than to combine it with a challenge that raises money for two causes that mean the world to me.”<\/p>\n
He said his brother Neil, who moved to Australia, has undergone deep brain stimulation surgery to manage the condition, but still faces daily struggles with reduced mobility and energy.<\/p>\n
There have been some positive steps with Parkinson’s research lately, but “more still needs to be done”, Mr Evison added.<\/p>\n
Karen Safe, community fundraiser at Parkinson’s UK, said the charity was “grateful to Luke” for supporting his brother with the challenge.<\/p>\n
“Parkinson’s is a complex brain condition that gets worse over time. Affecting 166,000 people in the UK, it has more than 40 symptoms, from tremor and pain to anxiety, and there is currently no cure,” she said. <\/p>\n
Mr Evison will be documenting his journey online under the name Trip The Balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the death of Mr Evison’s father from pancreatic cancer last year, he will be splitting proceeds from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-316929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970086902053209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}