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My story began when my son Leo started a local playgroup, while there he made friends with a little lad called Frankie, at the time he seemed a normal, healthy boy, had a smile on his face and playing like the rest. It wasn't until I got talking to his mother I found he had been battling Wilms, a form of cancer which is common in toddlers and attacks the kidneys. At the time it was just before his 3rd birthday, despite Chemo and all the hospital visits, he carried on and fought through it, always with a smile on his face!! A year on, and he is now cancer free, still having his 6 week checks but he is that same smiling boy I met back then. He has become my inspiration...if a little boy can carry on with such a life changing issue hanging over him then surely I can strive to do something challenging and difficult to make more children happier. He got me thinking of what I could do to help, what selfless little act I could do to try and see more little boy or girls like Frankie with smiling faces, whatever challenge they may be facing. So here I am, on the 11th September 2015, I will be walking from Birmingham to Edinburgh, a total of 280 miles (1 for every child that dies each year), with a target of completion in 4.5 days in an aim to raise as much money and awareness for child cancer as possible and to highlight all the wonderful things Birmingham's Children's Hospital do not only for their cancer patients but every child that has ever walked through their doors. 

In the UK cancer is the leading cause of death in children aged 1-14 years. 3600 children and young people are diagnosed with cancer every year in he UK, that is 10 EVERYDAY!! Around 280 children die from cancer each year in the UK. 82% of children in Great Britain survive childhood cancer, we can do more to raise this number even higher!!

So please dig deep and give all you can, you too can do your bit to help those children and keep them smiling! Let's show cancer who's boss!