Longfield is a hospice charity based in Minchinhampton. Longfield supports adults with life-limiting illness from diagnosis onwards, helping them to understand their illness, to cope better with its impact on their lives, and to live well. They support their family and carers too and provide a Hospice at Home service, enabling people in the last three months of life to stay at home, if that is their choice. 

As you may know in March 2015, my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer. During treatment, once a week, she was able to go over to the Hospice and receive 'day therapy' - which included arts, counselling and complimentary therapy to help her deal with her illness and the side effects of treatment. By being able to go to the Hospice, it made things just that little bit easier, and she was able to focus on other things, rather than the horrible side effects of chemo. They really are a fantastic charity, who helped my family enormously during, and after my mum had breast cancer. 

After my amazing mum finished her sessions of day therapy, she started volunteering at Longfield. If this wasn't enough, in November 2016 she started a years worth of fundraising in order to support Longfield and give something back to the charity which made such an impact on our family's life over the past two years. In order to try and say thank you to Longfield, I decided to run the Birmingham Half Marathon as part of Mum's year of fundraising. I would really appreciate any amount of sponsorship for this truly amazing charity. 

Thank you so much for your support! 

Katie xxx

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