Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: "I was so sorry to hear about Donald’s accident.  He did a wonderfully fair interview when I was Shadow Higher Education Minister and I wish him and his family and supporters every success in helping his rehabilitation."
        Donald MacLeod
Link to Buy  'The Vanishing of Ruth' by Janet Macleod Trotter. She is donating all money to the "Do it 4 Don" fundraising operation, with this book being her first available as an eBook. There are also many other titles to choose from. Donald was raised in Durham, the eldest of five, with frequent trips to the family home on the Isle of Skye. After school in Perthshire he spent a year in New Guinea then went to Oxford University before embarking on a successful journalistic career. Beginning on the Durham Advertiser and Newcastle Evening Chronicle, he then worked on The Scotsman, The Independent and The Guardian, where he was chief education correspondent and editor. A few months before the accident he had taken up the post of Communications Officer for the Russell Group of universities. Don has a wife, Barbara, three children and two grandchildren.

Link to Buy a Kindle to read eBooks through		 Accident: On 24th March 2010 he was hit by a car while cycling back to his London home. He was critically ill and in a coma for several weeks and has been left severely brain damaged. Initial prognosis was very depressing. However, Don has confounded the experts: he can now eat proper meals and feed himself, sit up in a wheelchair for a large part of the day, hold a pen and attempt to write numbers and letters, and although he cannot speak, he gives nods and rare beautiful smiles. He is making his way back and for his family, this is heartening and remarkable progress.

Easy Fund Raising

This is a site which arranges discounts for
internet shopping and passes on a percentage of the retailers' profits to
the cause of your choosing.  People can register their cause as Do It 4 Don
and the fund will get 2.5% for every order, at no extra cost to the buyer.

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 Do it for Don Fund: The progress Don was making was at Putney’s Royal Hospitalfor Neuro-disability. However, due to the recent cuts his funding has ceased and he is now in a nursing home in Highgate. At the nursing home he will receive some physiotherapy and occupational therapy. The fund has been started by his family to help pay for extra equipment to help with mobility and therapies such as hydrotherapy, when he is ready. Basically, the fund will cover the shortfall between what Don now needs and the NHS provision. Already the fund has passed £18,000, which is testimony to the affection and respect in which Don is held by family, friends and colleagues. People are being amazing and generous in their support and the family are extremely grateful and very touched by the response.
Don's family would like to thank Charles, Aidan, Sudor and Lewis for all their help in making this site. Don is an intelligent, gentle man who has had his life destroyed in a moment when he was looking forward to spending more time with Barbara, his family and grandchildren. Any contribution you can make will be warmly welcomed and appreciated.
Please make cheques out to:
Do It 4 Don and send to
18 Dacre Street, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1HW		 Donations can be made via Paypal

Logo designed by Isla MacLeod, Don's niece