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School essayist joins fight against Alzheimer's

	From left, Ashley White, Mark Poarch and Westonbirt Headmistress Mrs Mary Henderson

Alzheimer's disease is the subject of a moving essay by sixth former Ashley White, a pupil of Westonbirt School, near Tetbury. For her entry to the School's annual St John's Essay Competition, Ashley chose as her subject the painful experience she had as a young child watching her beloved grandfather die from Alzheimer’s disease.

Ashley wanted her essay to help others and to be used in the fight against Alzheimer's and other dementias. She and her teachers contacted BRACE to ask how they could help.
Ashley's essay is now available to download from the School's website http://www.westonbirt.gloucs.sch.uk/news.html (news item for 9 February) and BRACE is working with Westonbirt School on a number of initiatives that will help raise awareness and much needed funds for research.

BRACE Chief Executive Mark Poarch said, "Ashley’s essay draws on her very personal experience of loss through Alzheimer's, and it is deeply moving to read. It is brave of her to allow her experience to be used in this way to help others and we are very grateful to her for choosing BRACE as the means of doing this."

The St John's Essay Prize is a prestigious award donated to the Tetbury girls' boarding and day school by St John's College, Oxford, in thanks for the safe storage of its art treasures in the School's cellars during the Second World War.