After a difficult pregnancy, and many emergency hospital trips, my daughter India was born at 28 weeks - 3 months prematurely in February 2020. She was very small and fragile weighing only 2.5lb (a third of the weight of a normal baby, about the same weight as a bag of sugar) and had to immediately go into an incubator in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with the risk she would not survive. She stayed in the incubator for many weeks.

Thanks to the miracle workers at Chelsea and Westminster NICU, India survived and is now a thriving one year old. 

In October 2021 I completed what is known as the toughest foot race on earth - the Marathon des Sables ‘MdS’, 6 marathons in 7 days a total of 157 miles in the Moroccan desert to raise money to buy a state of the art incubator to save premature babies' lives.  Only 50% of the people who started the race completed it. Temperatures reached well over 50C and one of the stages was two marathons totalling 52.4 miles, back to back! Click on this link for more information on the go to https://marathondessables.co.uk/

I completed an ironman in Roth, Germany on 3rd July 2022 consisting of a 3.8 km swim, 180 km bicycle ride, a 42 km marathon.

https://www.challenge-roth.com/home.html

I ran the Paris Marathon on 2nd April 2023.

https://www.schneiderelectricparismarathon.com/en/

On 20th September 2025 I am running in the UTMB Wild 50 race, an Ultra Marathon in the Alps covering 53km (33 miles) with an elevation gain of 3,300 m non stop starting in Aldelboden and finishing in Cranz-Montana.

https://wildstrubel.utmb.world/races/wild-50

Many hospitals in the UK need to invest in additional specialist incubators like the Giraffe OmniBed Carestation for fragile premature babies. The advanced technology of this specialist incubator means these babies no longer need to undergo the sizeable stress of being transferred to another incubator for surgery – instead, they can simply stay in the Giraffe OmniBed right through to the theatre. The NICU equipment budget given via NHS England covers basic equipment and in many cases does not cover the cost of enough enhanced OmniBed incubators – which is why many hospitals are relying on donations to fund the additional OmniBeds needed. I am absolutely delighted that we raised over £30,000 for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital CW+ and funded the purchase of an incubator for the NICU.  We are hugely grateful to the many generous people who donated.I am keen to do more for premature babies in the UK and would like to raise enough money to buy a second incubator for a Chelsea and Westminster Hospital but this time a 'travelling' incubator, one that can be used in ambulances and helicopters to transport babies born prematurely to the nearest hospital with the right equipment to give them the best chance of life.  My target is the £80,000 it costs to buy one special travelling incubator. I appreciate that these are trying times for everyone, which is why I chose such a difficult challenge to help encourage donations. Any amount you can donate, no matter how small, would be greatly appreciated and 100% of every £1 you donate will go towards buying the incubator for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. In return you will know you have helped to save babies’ lives. The amount will be collected by The Everton Wallach Foundation Charitable Trust and then paid in a single sum directly to the incubator manufacturer who will provide the unit to C&W Hospital.Finally, some of you may be interested to know that I was also born early – by five weeks - and started life in an incubator! So I really owe my own life as well as our daughter’s to incubators. Anything you can donate will be gratefully received and really make a difference in saving the lives of babies born prematurely.With huge thanks.Jonathan, Georgia and India.