Hello! You may have followed my Thames Path journey over the last 2 and a bit weeks.

In September 2020 I walked 266 miles in 17 days. From the Source of the Thames near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, to the North Sea at the Isle of Grain, in Kent.

I passed through 9 counties, met countless wonderful people & gained a ridiculous amount of painful blisters for my troubles. By the end my feet were red raw & burning with every footstep. It was a ridiculous bloody-mindedness that kept me going for the last 4 days.

I kept being asked if this was a charity thing. Initially no, it was just a challenge I’d always wanted to do. But as I’ve now completed it - I can’t really not plug something close to my heart, can I?

The Oxford Transplant Foundation is my chosen charity,  They run the Transplant Centre at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford - a wonderful centre of research & support for patients & donors. 

My wife was a live-donor recipient of a kidney last year, and I am in awe of what they do there and what they have done & continue to do for her & other patients.

The Oxford Transplant Foundation’s mission is to further the science and practice of transplantation by... 

• Building and equipping clinical and research facilities
• Providing ongoing funding for these facilities
• Funding education, training and research posts connected with the facilities
• Providing information for patients, donors, relatives, carers and others with an interest in transplantation