A colleague from work revealed the story of her son Finn who had fought valiantly with a terminal diagnosis, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. After the recent birth of my son who is also named Finn the story broke my heart and despite being incredibly unfit I wanted to try and raise some money to help the charity set up in Finn's memory. Therefore I will be running the Cardiff half marathon, the first time I have every run this distance or greater. Its going to be an incredibly worthwhile challenge!

Finn’s Foundation has been created to give cash grants to families of children with terminal illness or a life threatening disease to spend how they see fit – it could be a holiday, gifts for the child or just to take away some of the burden of financial worry that having a child diagnosed as terminally ill inevitably brings; leaving families to concentrate on the things that matter the most like creating memories and spending time with each other.

​20% of all donations will go directly to DIPG research.