Video Credit: Conor Cameron)
Vehicles rolling out for the Sandy Duffus’ Tractor Run from Turriff to Thainstone. The charity event was raising funds for the ‘My Name’5 Doddie Foundation’, the charity set up by the late Doddie Weir to find a cure for Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
The army of tractors left the Haughs in Turriff at 6:30pm making their way through Rothienorman to finish at Thainstone Mart, Inverurie. Behind the wheel the Fast Trac ‘Doddie the iCON’ tractor will be local farmer Sandy Duffus, who was diagnosed with MND earlier this year.
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The two businesses behind the initiative are Annie Kenyon Architects Ltd and Agricultural Machinery Specialists CC Powell Ltd.
The JCB Fastrac 4220 iCon, wrapped in Doddie’s own tartan livery, was designed to support fundraising and awareness for the ‘My Name’5 Doddie Foundation’. Doddie, who died of MND, aged 52, in 2022, founded the charity to fund research with the vision of ‘A world free of MND’, and so far, has raised over £11 million. Whilst the foundation is actively making progress, due to lack of funding, a cure has not yet been found for this fatal disease.
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