Crohn’s charity honoured for raising £100,000

A charity set up by two Jewish women to fund research into Crohn’s disease has been given an award for raising more than £100,000.

ForCrohns, founded by Lisa Meleck and Natasha Adley, was honoured by St Mark’s Hospital, a leading international centre for intestinal and colorectal disorders.

Anthony Cummings, executive director of the north-west London hospital, said the charity was “the longest standing and largest contributing fundraising group for the hospital's vital research into Crohn's disease.

“Without the drive, determination and dynamism of the organisation, truly exciting cutting edge research would not have been possible.”

Ms Meleck, 29, of Hampstead Garden Suburb, and Ms Adley, 29, of Mill Hill, north-west London, set up the charity in 2002.

Both women’s mothers had suffered from the chronic stomach condition.

Ms Adley said: “We were humbled and honoured to be given this award.

“When we set up forCrohns we never dreamed of being able to raise so much money.

“The donations we have given in the past 12 years has enabled important work to be carried that may eventually offer the hope of a cure for Crohn’s sufferers.”

Crohn’s causes inflammation and ulceration throughout the gastrointestinal system.

It affects 115,000 people in the UK.