The organisers of the 2012 London Value Investors Conference were pleased to support the children’s charity the SMA Trust with a donation of £10,582, which represented the entire profit made by the Conference.

Andrew Knight, a Founder Trustee, spoke to the Conference and explained the work that the charity is doing to raise awareness and do research into Spinal Muscular Atrophy. This little known illness is caused by a gene that is carried by 1 in 40 people and affects 1 in 6,000 births. SMA affects motor neurons in the spinal cord. This degenerative condition results in muscular wastage, leading to severe disability and often to premature death.