Muscle Help Foundation

The Muscle Help Foundation (MHF) is a small family charity delivering highly personalised, transformational experiences (also referred to as interventions and moments-in-time) in the UK called 'Muscle Dreams' for children and young people, uniquely between the ages of 8 to 28yrs, with Muscular Dystrophy (MD). MD brings profound physical disability coupled with a limit on life which creates a huge challenge. MHF works tirelessly to ensure through meticulous planning that despite everyday life feeling at times utterly impossible for these children, young people, young adults and their families, their experience will provide that “anything is possible” attitude that society, educational and social barriers often knock out of them. Muscle Dreams have included learning outdoor survival techniques with Ray Mears, spending time with British F1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton and interviewing global movie icon Al Pacino to a bespoke photography masterclass at the National Portrait Gallery and a host of virtual wellbeing interventions. With a team of dedicated volunteers, MHF's founder and CEO Michael McGrath MBE personally hosts each experience, inspiring beneficiaries to explore their own potential. Michael is the driving force behind the charity and is the first disabled person in the world to have successfully led expeditions to both the North and South Poles ~ he himself has MD.