Verity Grainger is one of the kindest, bravest and most incredible people I have ever met. She is married to Josh, my best friend, and together with their young son Noah are like a second family to me.

Incredibly sadly Verity suffers from an extremely rare disease called MNGIE (mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy) which has already had a terrible impact on her family.

Josh and Verity are fundraising for a safe, but very expensive treatment. They are doing their main fundraiser here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/compassionate-treatment-for-mngie

I want to do my bit to help them and I'd be super grateful if you felt you could donate anything.

I've had a beard for close to four years now and have never been clean shaven since then! While it will be very odd to be fully shaved I hope this is a small but helpful way I can raise some funding for someone who absolutely deserves it. I would be very grateful if you were able to donate either to my sponsored Beard Shave or directly to their page.

I will shave my beard off on the 29th of April and will upload before and after photos!